It's nice living in Britain, where the houses are built with bricks :p

I have a locked door sure, but I don't have a 10 inch thick armored steel plated vault door installed in my house either.

I never said expensive, just not cheap. Something I use every day, that is going to take a lot of clicking and moving, I want something better then a £5 mouse.

Stop buying cheap mice then? All the mice I've bought over the last 5 years have all had great scroll wheel clickers.

You can't vertically-align objects without scripting.
Yes you can.

You can't define a horizontal-scrolling element without scripting.
I don't even know what you mean. Do you mean like a carousel? You can, but clunky.

You can't define a non-scripted grid-like layout with proportional, fixed and content-dependant sizes mixed together
Sure you can.

It lacks a simple, integrated, templating and data-binding system
So people build their own, mustache, handlebars, ember.js etc

Yeah, because those white hick towns are so much safer and nicer. It's all about poverty dude.

It is open source itself. troll.

http://multipath-tcp.org/pmwiki.php/Users/DoItYourself

so concerned about privacy = doesn't care about keeping up to date with web technology?

"You whippersnappers with your javascript and your canvas! HTML 4.1 was fine for me, and we didn't use javascript back in my day! It was considered bad practice even!"

Dislike Obama all you like, but jesus christ, are you 12? Obummer? Really?

Pakistan != Palestine

Please tell me, which hospital do I go to where they'll give me medical grade H instead of morphine? I feel a spinal fracture coming on.

Nope, I don't think these will be the guys to do it. I just think the engineer mindset is too prevalent in the open source world (for good reason of course). We need more designers, UX people and others who are not blinded by the technology involved, to pull it all together into a seamless experience, one where the terminal is relegated to the last resort for the normal users (I'd still be using it every day), it shouldn't be something they have to learn to effectively manage their pc these days.

Ubuntu have been trying, but they suffer the same problem of "it's good enough, all the features are accessible". Look at the software centre, it's a piece of shit. It's not a nice experience to browse and install software through, and as much as that might just sound like fluff to some, it's fucking important to get it right, not just transfer what you can do in the terminal to a gui.

This type of thinking is why mass adoption will never happen on the desktop. You are entirely correct of course, but the OS will continue to be a niche for people who know how to properly use a computer when you only think about things in their technical terms. The same reason the UX and design of open source software has always lagged behind property counter parts, because of thoughts like "If the option is available, then anything else to make it nicer is just wasted cycles, bloat or fluff"

For proper adoption it needs to just work, it's needs to be easy to market and it needs to make sense to joe public. I could sell this to my none geeky friends and family much easier then I could sell ubuntu +pantheon window manager. "Oh it's easy, see you just open the terminal, why yes it does look like what hackers use in movies, now you type sudo apt-get install pantheon... What's that mean? Well, the sudo bit gives you temporary admin access letting you make changes to the system, apt-get is a program that lets you download other programs, install is the command for apt-get and pantheon is the window manager we want to install... well the window manager is what the OS uses to give you windows, it manages how.. *looks up and sees a blank face looking back with glazed eyes* you know what, nevermind. Ok, log out and then select which window manager you want to use, yes there are a variety to choose from, why? well, because "choice is good"... oh, you think that's confusing? Well I guess it could be... blah blah blah

Compare that to "Check out something called Elementary OS. You might like it compared to windows"

There was a video last year ago showing off an early prototype. It uses a docking station, which you plug your periphals into, there is a dialer program that lets you make and receive calls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6eEDZva1W8

Pretty easy these days, you can setup a master password on the page where you access the plain text passwords.Most people don't do this though, and do use the remember my login feature. Really it should be one of the first things it gets you to do when you setup the browser.