I hope the ultimate result of LMDE is that Mint can stop relying on Ubuntu for... well, anything. Ubuntu/Canonical have lost focus while stumbling in a bad direction.

More metal blades doesn't make a better razor after 2 or 3. After that, the manufacturers are just one-upping each other to keep the marketing going.

I'd gladly pay much more for a razor with only two ceramic blades. But that'll never happen, because metal razor blades are by definition planned obsolescence.

No one, not even the most "hard core" fiscal conservatives / libertarians, claim the free market is "infallable."

Too bad there are few if any actual free markets in existence, even though it gets invoked to support just about any argument. Might as well claim the free market is "magical" while you're at it, like unicorns.

You nailed it.... I want to see the keyboard and my screen contents at the same time. I've been considering the Photon Q, but the non-removable battery and hardwired SIM card give me pause. Also, what's it like moving away from an AMOLED screen?

Unless a phone has a full QWERTY hardware keyboard, I don't really care. Unfortunately, the handset makers and carriers seem to think there's little to no market for such devices, so I'll be keeping my Epic 4G for a while.

Root will be nesessary until the carriers allow us to freely uninstall their bloatware, and other useless/quasi-hostile junk (for me, that means facebook).

Elop will quietly move back the MS once they are done.

Exactly. He'll come back as VP of mobile hardware development (or some such) when MS swoops in to take the boots from Nokia's corpse. Is there anyone left who doesn't see this as a convoluted, shady, long term plan for MS to become a handset maker?

Don't worry; Steve Ballmer's reorg will fix all of this.

Recycling 6 million unsold tablets into chairs is about as likely to fix anything in Redmond as Ballmer's reorg. What the reorg will do is hide any useful business metrics for a year or more while Ballmer continues to run the behemoth into the ground.

Only infinite resursion jokes never end.

Because Chrome is not trying to copy everything Firefox does at every opportunity.

Well, now that the folly that is 3d TV/movies is all but dead (again), what makes you think the TV and film industries aren't working to bring the long-awaited Smell-O-Vision to market?

I don't care unless there are at least 1200 pixels vertically. Come back when you have one that's 2800x1200.

How is blindly trusting a modder functionally different than blindly trusting a distro provider? Do you inspect every binary package you download from a distro's package repositories? I think not.

I envision an inversion of XBill, where Ballmer must throw chairs at Linuses trying to install Linux on networked machines.

Last I checked, about 1.5% of Internet users disabled Javascript (in the late 90s, this was about 10%). The average user doesn't know what Javascript is, nor do they deliberately disable it. If a site "breaks" because JS is disabled, it's debatable who's fault that is, the developer(s) or the user. Even in today's reality, JS is a de facto requirement.

That 1.5% deliberately chooses to disable JS, whether their reasons are valid or loony. Removing the ability to do so does a disservice to the informed; the ignorant will be unaffected.