Like those people that bought a phone that was both a Samsung and a Nexus? I'm sure those Galaxy Nexus owners are enjoying 4.4, oh wait.

Canonical is forking something?? NIH syndrome! They should totally use something that already exists.
Canonical is using something that already exists? How dare they use something someone else made!

You should write an article on it with the headline "Is Betteridge's law always true?"

China already has moved (or is moving) to Linux with Ubuntu Kylin http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/ubuntukylin As far as people in China still using Windows, the majority of them are pirated copies. That's why they want extended support, they won't buy Windows 8.1 or even 7 because they never bought XP in the first place.

Yet if they added all those features, people would complain of bloat.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't

Considering a lot of the people working on Wayland are those that worked on X, I don't think NIH applies.

It may be more complex, but IT departments have had ample time to figure out said complexities. April 2014 has been known about for YEARS.

Like that card UI? They should totally get the designer that did that...

but if they're self driving cars, wouldn't it be the software that is guilty of going over the speed limit?

Clearly this is all because of {current President} and all the rest of the {President's affiliated party}. If only this were done by {opposing party to that of the President} instead none of this would have happpened!

In terms of 'horsepower', phones have gotten fast enough for what the average user does.

Aren't those two exact opposites?

That has to do with speech recognition, something Watson (at least at the time of the Jeopardy filming) didn't have at all.

Other than creating a parallel universe where we say to one Earth "pollute all you want" and the other Earth "don't pollute" and then check on them in 50 years, what sort of model would be satisfactory? I'm not saying I do(not) believe in Climate Change, just wondering what everyone would agree on for a method.

Makes sense to not see Scotland there, after all, No True Scotsman would be worse than the US.