I think this will be mostly the end of private cars for the majority of us. It seems ridiculous now, but once people start looking at the cost of owning a car versus a well priced car service I think the transition will be fast. Especially among the young.

We'll probably be able to get by with a fleet of super-effecient driverless taxi cabs. I image paying a couple hundred bucks a month to have car come and pick me up whenever I need one.

You could get even more efficiency by offering a reduced rate for those willing to share a car. The system could efficiently route, pickup up multiple passengers and dropping them off.

Ultimately this boils down to "members of one party signed pledge they'd never raise taxes, do everything they can to conduct business as normal without raising anything explicitly called a tax".

I thought that was what "tax-cut" was shorthand for.

Walmart, BestBuy, Target, Dell, etc. All pay taxes in Texas. Amazon has been a bit off a scofflaw for many years now.

Texas cannot spend more than it has.

Why don't you learn something about how government works before spouting off tired political bromides?

I'm baffled that people don't think Sci-Fi is rewarded with Oscars. It most certainly is. Now is stupid bad sci-fi rewarded with Oscars? No. Are we really asking this question the year after Inception?

Because funding comes from Congress that is usually the opposite party of the president?

And seriously "so some UI designer has something to do"? You find that the open source community has too many UI designers? Because I find the exact opposite to be true.

No. I'm pretty sure you're describing the sort of person who would fork a window manager and make it work for them. I'm describing the people who want computing to have frozen in time. The people whom Gnome 3 will never work for because it will never exactly replicate twm.

The only problem is those people are anti-change. So a *new* release of WindowMaker won't work for them either.

You mean the HP that had product placement on Project Runway for 2 years that you couldn't buy in the stores, then did a massive partnership with the show at the same time it decided to jettison all the products it was promoting? That HP?
Because the only two things I'd listen to them for advice on is how to make printers or slowly become irrelevant.

You're doing the Yogi Berra thing there. Nobody's using Linux anymore because they destroyed it to make it easier for all the new users.

Linux is used by more people each year. And you're still welcome to spin a distro for yourself circa 1992 if that's what you want. There are still window managers with X-mouse. Why are you using gnome - a modern desktop - if you want a mainframe experience? Just because it "Just works" for you, doesn't mean it "just works" for everyone or that we should stay frozen in time so that a few users don't have to stretch out of their comfort zone.

Every day. At work. As a developer. For over 6 years now.

I use gnome 3 on 2 monitors with unmaximized windows every day and I love the new task switcher. The Linux community is ridiculously conservative.

Sounds like someone's got a case of wanting to be a product manager instead of a tester.