I agree, but some things are extremely annoying. I wouldn't mind metro so much if I didn't have to really aim for the precise position on multi-monitor setups to get to it from the Desktop. However, with this in mind, I learned about the quick keys to access the same stuff, however, I would want to disable the onscreen menus if I'm going to use the hotkeys because I inadvertently trigger these menus when I don't want them at the time.

I just realized you can disable the taskbar on multiple monitors, there's an option to do it.

I actually like the taskbar going across multiple monitors. However, I agree, they need an option to turn it off. What's especially annoying with multi-monitor support is the side option screen that shows up when you least expect it and when you want to access it, it's hard to access it. I hope Microsoft patches some of these annoyances for plain desktop use. Why add a "DESKTOP" option that functions like a broken Windows 7 Desktop?

Because wikileaks is bullshit: http://cryptome.org/0002/wikileaks-unlike.htm I don't need to say more. John Young has more credibility than Assange or his wikileak group will ever have.

Only 7% running ICS because the majority of people don't want to purchase a new phone ever since google screwed us over with updates. Considering we can't run ICS on the majority of Android phones on sale right now, why bother upgrading? Forcing us to buy some new battery hungry phone isn't gonna do it.

Wasn't the whole point of TOR to encourage illicit usage in the first place for countries with draconian laws? Seems pretty silly to encourage dissidents in another country, create a tool just for it, and then expect it not to be used for illegal means.

There's a lot of cooperation in a free market society, or else you wouldn't even have half the things you have right now, nor would you be here replying to a message. Just look at how many companies are involved to build an airplane, car or machines, quite a lot of different companies working cooperatively for the better good and of course more profit. This is just plain dirty fighting between one technology company vs. the other.

Some reason, I don't see anyone filling the gap, and Facebook will probably just close their offices in said country, while continuing to offer services from across their borders. They'll have to block access to their site completely if they want people to stop using it. Then good luck trying to enforce these new laws.

This attitude is typical through out the world, not just Russians. Just that the Russians allowed it to overtake them that everyone is doing it on a regular basis that no one cares to belittle them about it.

Ever been on the Gentoo forums? Notice how less hostile people are on the forums compared to the freeBSD forum and mailing list? People will reply to anyone with problems without getting hostile on gentoo. There's quite a huge difference.

I've been using freebsd as a desktop for the last 3 years and I do enjoy it, but getting help from the forum or mailing list is next to impossible. My last problem with a freebsd port was with gnome trying to install evolution and forcing install heimdal. Of course after installing heimdal, it broke every port I had installed on my system and I was unable to ever upgrade again until I removed it (removing also evolution and gnome along with it). When I asked on the freebsd forum and mailing list about this, I was met with hostility and absolutely no solutions to this. After searching the mailing lists for about a couple weeks, I finally ran into someone with the same problem and we discovered this was a problem because krb is installed in the base system so either replacing it or removing whatever Kerberos port I had installed was the only solution. That's all it was, I could have saved a ton of time if I knew this before hand or if someone was kind enough to tell me this instead of calling me to dumb to use freebsd (because apparently none of them use a GUI or gnome and everyone knows how to fix these nuances except me).

As much as I try to love freeBSD, this kind of hostile community isn't really helping freeBSD get anywhere or any support.

I tried that before, and it ended disastrously. My mother uses Skype a lot and Skype is an utter mess in *nix, crashes a lot, not updated at all, and is just not as usable as it is on Windows. And no, using alternatives to Skype was not an option considering the alternatives are complete utter crap and not many people use them. I was thinking of getting her an Apple, but I just reinstalled Windows and she was happy again.

Why should I have to log back in to a compiz-free session? Why can't it be disabled/enabled on the fly anymore as it used to be? Just seems like a really dumb idea to me.

Cool story, ever tried to turn off desktop effects in the new version of Ubuntu? It's not in the usual place where you'd find it, in fact, that option is completely gone! So people unfamiliar with the terminal can't turn off compiz so easily. Thus you end up with a completely buggy desktop that's supposed to have been stable upon release (or at least close too).

Starting to be pretty common in opensource communities. I think it's time to start forking these projects with these well entrenched developers with stupid ideas who throw out every good idea to implement their bad ideas *cough* Gnome. I'm not liking this direction of someone telling what I need and don't need.

Quite a lot of people lately. Management wants to see their production on their office computers. They're easy to network and of course easy to hack. Siemens is not the only one vulnerable here, *cough* Schneider *cough* Schweitzer *cough* ABB...