I've just installed 11.10 on an older pentium D desktop (basically my distro-testing machine), and after finding Unity to be unusable I installed the standard Gnome 3 shell. It's definitely inspired by fisher-price baby's-first-tablet UIs, but at least it's responsive and stable and doesn't make running programs inaccessible. It's worth giving Gnome 3 a try for a day or so.

The US heavily subsidizes financial institutions much more than manufacturers. Don't you know that banks are the real Job Creators(tm) in the 21st century?

Forgiveness of debts was feasible when AIG was in trouble, and I didn't hear much argument from conservatives to the contrary at the time.

Kobo uses Adobe Digital Editions DRM. It's trivial to strip off. Just google "ineptepub" and you'll find an easy solution.

If they do, they'll laugh.

Oh, come on. Don't you know anything about capitalism? If there's sufficient demand for oil, then the market will provide for more dinosaurs to be turned into oil on the supply side. Didn't you ever take an economics course?

I thought we were talking about "a moderately successful tablet device", not "a near-total failure".

I would buy this simply because these guys screwed Michael Arrington over. The guy's a bully, and had it coming.

Conservative MPs, and especially cabinet ministers, don't dare sneeze without getting approval from the PMO. If a tory MP started a private project, it's a sure bet that it's because the PM approved.

...please don't let all these fancy tech buzzwords stop Minecraft from working.

Let me know when you can buy an IOS or Android device as capable as a Vita or 3DS for the same prices, with no monthly contract.

That's a terrible analogy. There's nothing remotely similar between religious wackos trying to recruit other religious wackos, and religious wackos trying to recruit independent thinkers.

Xubuntu can be as fast as Debian+XFCE, so long as one selects the classic XFCE environment at login. There are driver advantages to running an Ubuntu variant over stock Debian.

The manufacturing of umbrellas takes energy.

It was worth it because perfectly functional electronic hardware didn't end up contaminating a landfill. The obsession with having the newest gadget and junking old ones only because they're not new is disgusting, and you are disgusting for encouraging the practice.

The article could have been more thorough regarding technical details, but anything that helps people learn about the possibility of upgrading older hardware is worth posting.