Landing postponed until tomorrow due to weather at the landing site.

Buzz Aldrin (the second human to walk on the moon) has a different take

In TFA Volokh, a distinguished law professor, explains why he thinks the court got it wrong:

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

-Niels Bohr

I was wrong, google is not billing this as an early termination fee. They are calling it an equipment recovery fee. I am set for my phone for the next two years (thank you $350 ETF from big red) but I would like to see someone challenge the new fee in court.

That's a hard sell if the default window manager in a top 3 desktop distribution (AFAICT the top 3 are Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Ubuntu) doesn't support these features.

Because other applications running under the same user account depend on the brokenness of the far-more-widespread default window manager.

Laziness? Why would I move to another social networking site, if all my friends are still on Facebook?

GIMP is always compared to photoshop. There are some key features missing in GIMP

Agreed

adjustment layers (which GEGL is suppose to eventually bring about, but it's been a long wait)

Adjustment layers are a messed up paradigm from being stuck in a 1D compositing 'stack'. A node-based compositing workflow, however...

proper 16 and 32 bit image editing

cinepaint seems to have gone nowhere particular fast simply because not enough people (read: businesses) were/are interested in this. It's sad, but there you go.

and LAB and CYMK modes.

Seems pretty far off the priority list for most "serious artists".. unless the only serious artists are those who print their work and have it exhibited. Let's face it - most Photoshop users, and I admit I'm including all the warez kiddies and the family members they installed Photoshop for - will only ever used Photoshop to make images suitable for display on monitors; LCD ones at that.. they won't be bothering with even calibrating their display and making sure Photoshop uses that color profile information. By the time they do want a print - they'll either send it off to one of the many online printing services who have excellent staff who deal with RGB->CMYK(and then some) conversion if their machines flag out-of-gamut results, or they'll just send it to their own inkjet/color laser printer and not really care if the colors are a bit off.

I'm greatful for GIMP and thankful for the developer's efforts but I'd rather they focus on these things than dicking around with windowing. The truth is once you get use to it, GIMP's windowing isn't THAT bad.

You shouldn't have to 'get used to it' - although I agree that there's other areas that need love more than how one manages their windows; although 'losing' your layer window under some other non-GIMP-related because it's separate from everything else, or being fooled once again and trying to do a color adjustment in image A but ending up doing it in image B because you forgot that each window has its own little menu for doing these things.. can get quite annoying.

Now.. a unified transform tool and a macro recorder (not every artist wants to dive straight into script-fu.. which in itself isn't exactly the most human-readable of languages) - that's what I've been making donations for; although perhaps I should hire a programmer instead and pray to the OSS gods that they'll actually include the code, as I haven't seen any headway made into these areas.. just years and years of discussions.
At least there's a bit of a push for GEGL so maybe it won't be so swaptastic to work on large images anymore.

I had the same reaction; I had to take a guess and type out "accessibility" in the address bar just to confirm the number of letters.

But really, can we please stop abbreviating every somewhat long word with numbers? "txtspk" (or whatever clueless news anchors are calling the SMS dialect these days) is bad enough, but if you're writing for the general public (even the slashdotting public), is it really so hard to use your words?

No, it's a fee you pay for a regular wire transfer from one bank to another. Its absence is what makes PayPal so convenient.

Suppose the bosses at the company you were working for had figured out they could convert all those documents in a week. Then why would they hire you for six weeks? That's one reason why office workers are often not interested in automation; they don't want to automate themselves right out of a job.

Nothing like a large class and hearing all the people typing.

But I always use pen and paper for notes, you can write down everything easier and you has less to carry with a computer and power cords and hoping you are near an outlet.

Then I copy my notes (or scan diagrams) onto the computer.. easier to find and read and organize. I find using something like Mind Map or Free mind also help to get all the notes in a better flow.

I can type on my iTouch as fast as most people type on a computer (which is faster than most people write) so I'll be surprised if i cant do the same on an iPad. Get a stylus for your iPad (yeah it's a little annoying it isn't included but whatever) and draw diagrams and stuff and you're probably set. If you just can't type by muscle memory without having a touch keyboard then maybe add a bluetooth keyboard. Add in the ability to record the audio and you can probably get some pretty good notes. I don't buy the handwriting being better for memory. It's probably just whatever you're used to. I always type my notes on my laptop and I find it less distracting than writing. The diagram thing is a point but having a screen you can draw on would take care of it.