I'm going to assume that you're using 'gnome3 clone' in the sense that they're both failed attempts at a unified interface? Because 'Formally Metro (tm)' is nothing like Gnome 3.

I remember when he first replaced Bill Gates at the head of the company, he cited that it was time for the company to "grow up" and become mature. He's done that, in a sense. What he did was "hedge all bets and manipulate sales". Fast forward to 2013 and the company has grown stagnate and soft. The only innovation coming from Microsoft is from their research division, but so precious little of that makes it into their products.

More and more AAA titles are indeed built with OpenGL support. It also helps that the major development environments for games (for example, Unity) work directly with OpenGL and DirectX. The advent of smartphones and smartphone games has lead to a resurgence in OpenGL dev as well. I think you'll find that the future of DirectX is limited.

Great for situations like this: http://cbsg.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/live

Yeah, I've got the Transformer Pad Infinity. I'll definitely be setting up dual boot. Since the specs of the Nexus 7 and the Pad Infinity are so close, I don't imagine it will require that much hackery to get it working....

I'd love to know what that hardware is. I've been hard-pressed to find anything that doesn't work out of the box for me.

+1 for Okular and Kate. I'll also add Gwenview and Krita into that mix. I must say that some of the KDE apps are very polished these days.

Correct - the videos were done using xrender - software based compositing. Once they get a workable 3D driver for the Tegra 3 then they'll be sweet.

class it(){ // MOAR CODES } var happen = new it; if(!instanceOf("it", happen)){ print("PHALE"); }

Auto-dismount on idle timeout, I'd say. So many people will "lock" their laptop (read: CTRL-ALT-DEL+Enter) and leave themselves vulnerable.

Ah, yes - security through obscurity! Brilliant!

To give this context - blender propogates many new point releases in a calendar year - every one packing major features.

Complete Undo-redo support is coming within the next two point releases.

Keyword: support contracts. The renderfarm may support .blend files - but I'm not sure that they're going to give you deep insights or support into some small glitch you're having with your render on their farm.

What a load of absolute bollocks. No good way to handle security? I'm going to postulate that you're trolling. Care to give citations, examples or....well, anything?