It is doubtful that this phrase will ever reach equilibrium.
Yes, I know it repeated a set of 4. That's not equilibrium.

You could swap tilde and esc, turning it into a "Linux" keyboard actually available for sell from Unicomp, although I've never seen anything about it being used historically. That would move esc closer, and would put it above the homerow, which is supposed to be easier to reach.

The key word here is tolerance. Everything the GP said could equally be applied to someone who was raised to be a "good person". (and in reality, religion has very little to do with it.) Most religions put a great deal of weight on being/raising your kids to be good people, and as a result there may be a higher average number of "good" people in religious communities.

As for your comments about religions condemning followers of other religions to hell, I think you have a skewed understanding of religion. While religions frequently say that nonbelievers will be punished, most religious people (and church leaders) believe that it is far more important to be be a good person than to be a member or the correct church. (Trust me, there are bad people in all religions, and most churchgoers wouldn't have any doubts as what will happen to those people) Antecedently, basically all of the protestant friends I have are of the opinion that since God is supposed to be forgiving, anyone who is trying to be a good person will be rewarded. Some Churches don't even believe in a "hell", but rather teach that you will be rewarded according to you actions in this life. (examples: Mormonism, Buddhism) My understanding of the Bahá'í religion is that they don't regard hell as a punishment. I don't know enough about Islam or Judaism to be willing to comment on their beliefs, but I'm willing to bet that the majority of their followers are likewise tolerant of other religions and may not automatically assume nonbelievers are doomed to hell.

Remember, most beliefs are not the polarized fields that some of the media (and frequently others) would have you believe. Most people's beliefs may align with a belief system, but they don't go to extremes. Not all Islamics are terrorists bent on destroying western culture, not all open-source users are anti-close-source, and not all feminists have hair on their legs. :P

parent didn't read/understand GP.

Slow down there. *Cache* comes with the extra overhead of load/store.
Example: I want to add two numbers
In registers:
add $1,$1,$2 # Add reg $1 & $2 and store in $1

In cache:
lw $1,0x8001 #Get the first memory location
lw $2,0x8002 #Get the second memory location
add $1,$1,$2 #Preform the addition
sw 0x8001,$1 #stro the result back into memory

As you can see, we have a gain of 3 instructions, and probably even more clock cycles, depending on cache read speed, and whether or not the memory of interest is even in the cache (cache miss).

As for your discussion about DMA, it *could* compare with the speed of registers on some implementations. That's a matter of engineering, And at an electrical engineer, I'm going t o make the guess that the highest performance will always come from registers, simple because they are located closer to the ALU. (cache can't be significantly closer because the cache is frequently bigger than the rest of the processor. It's a simple matter of weight^H^H^H^H^H^H geometry.) DMA has other advantages that make it useful, as as in your example about the ARM processor, but strcopy() on an ARM processor is executed by a dedicated hardwired circuit. (copying memory doesn't actually require preforming calculations on the data, so the ALU isn't needed and the data doesn't even really need to hit the processor at all.) For computational work, registers are still (currently) faster.
As I write this, it occurs to me that the above 1000-core processor with the cores distributed throughout the cache field might not allow all the processors to remain busy, but might allow for the paths from the processor to the cache to be short enough to make computation with DMA as fast as operating from the registers, but I don't know how clock skew across the processor might affect this idea.

I can't say that I use anywhere close to the same number as windows as you, (usually around 6 windows for me, if I'm actually doing something complex, I prefer to drop to the terminal) but I find myself using the virtual desktops on my machines in much the same way that 10gui appears. (I know it's not the same thing.)
The touch interface would take some getting used to, and I don't know if it's really an improvement over keyboard shortcuts.

The thing is, I could try using 10gui, and you can use Win7, and we both would be happy with our guis. That's the draw Linux has for me, I get to decide whether I like something, or if I think it should be changed.

Ok, so it's not an *existing* product, but I love the fact that following your sig to the letter would have you modded troll.
(I agree with you that such a project would be difficult, but I'm willing to give humanity the benefit of the belief that we can overcome these problems if we decide it's worthwhile.)

You didn't understand the GP. I'll try to explain it in a new way.

When I pay my electric bill, part of that money goes to the construction/extension/maintenance of the electrical grid. The other part goes to the power plant to pay for the cost of actually producing the electricity.
When I pay my ISP, I'm paying for the construction/extension/maintenance of the internet. (fiber/copper grid) When I veiw ads or pay Netflix, I'm paying for the production of data. (analogous to paying the power plant)
Therefore, when I pay for internet, I'm not paying for the content consumed, but the capacity to consume content. (bandwidth) This would be similar to buying a connection to the electric grid, and then paying a different company for the power I consume.

This analogy, (like all analogies) is imperfect, (for instance, transmitting the bytes consumes power that must be paid for, but this is kinda similar to the power line losses) but conveys what I think the GP was trying to present.

I don't know. I'd eventually develop motor memory for typing if I used this frequently enough, so memorization may not be required.

Also, just looking at the Swype, I'm not conviced that 8pen would be slower, (actually, it seems like 8pen would be faster to me) but 8pen also seems like it would be less error prone.

I'd try it out, but I don't have an android unfortunately, partly because I've never found one with a decent keyboard. (The slide-out ones are the closest to decent I've found) I'll have to try it out on someone else's phone, and maybe this will finally bring me to the smart-phone market.

Well, I can't explain anyone else's issues, but my problem with Vista was stability.

I bought a laptop for college that came with Vista pre-installed, which should have meant that the manufacturer had taken care of all the hardware issues. (I can't say if that was in any way related to the problem) However, the machine crashed almost every week. It locked me out of boot twice. (I think it was windows genuine advantage thinking my copy wasn't legit) After the first semester, I decided to install Deep Freeze, which although it didn't help with stability, meant that each time I rebooted, I was back to the fresh install state. I made Linux my primary operating system after that first year.

I have a dual boot with Win7 now, (Software that I need for class won't run under Wine, as it won't accept the activation code.) and although 7 appears to be much more stable, I'm constantly yanking my hair out at the silly things it does when I have to use it for my class.

So, perhaps you didn't have issues with stability on Vista, but I know that I and many others see a huge improvement in stability between Vista and 7.

Not "ALWAYS". Usually yes, but you are ignoring the fact that many cities have already weighed the costs of aerial and subterranean railways, and most opt for subways. That would suggest that for long railways there may be some factor that makes tunneling cheaper than might be expected.

(Before all the arguments about surface construction etc. break out, consider the Chunnel. They had the option of simply sinking a watertight tunnel, or even floating a tunnel with a bridge of some sort to allow water traffic, but they decided to dig. Economics figures into engineering projects as well. If digging is cheapest option, you will start digging.)

This would address one of my complaints about mice, (lack of length) but I didn't see anything about adjusting the weight. I use a Logitech mouse that has since been discontinued, and I have yet to find a suitable replacement. Most of the mice I've tried are either to short or too light. My current mouse is slowly wearing out (I've already replaced one button), but I've started using the keyboard more, so that is less of an issue now than it was 3 years ago.

Maybe some airports are like that, but I know at least some of the smaller airports (Midland international, Easterwood, to name 2) are set up so that passengers of private planes and commercial planes are processed through the same terminals. (I don't think the pilots at Easterwood have to go through security)

On Soviet Slashdot, internet analogy gets inserted into car discussion.

FTFY

I have an ATI card, and I've been able to switch between the closed source driver and the open source driver with every release. Although I wouldn't know why you would want to use the closed source driver... It has stablity issues, and I although I try each of them when I upgrade, it's been some time (~2 years) since the closed source driver could do anything better than the open driver. (about 2 years ago I couldn't get the open source driver to play video and desktop effects at the same time, but I solved that with a script that turned off desktop effects everytime I started mplayer.)