You may want to take a peek at elementaryOS. A few of my friends, on seeing what I've done with my laptop, have described their "Pantheon" desktop as "Gnome that doesn't suck". Pantheon was originally forked from Gnome, though it's taken a life of its own... as of now, it's only officially supported on elementary, where it's the default DE.

Funny that. I have an AMD graphics card in my gaming Linux system, with Steam, and it works pretty well. AMD's driver support has sucked (and I built the system before I switched the gaming system over to Linux), but with the current experimental drivers it's actually pretty good. I have not noticed any problems with any of my games.

AMD is working with Valve to produce driver improvements, so I would expect that things to continue improving.

In game, it'll probably drive in-game prices up.

In the real world, probably no effect at all. The number of people who actually make a real world living from a game like that is extremely small, and so most of the money "lost" was already budgeted/removed from the economy before it was lost.

Have you seen the list of health problems that purebred dogs have to deal with these days?

There's a difference between donating some genetic material to a couple who can't conceive on their own, and being a father.

This man, at the request of the couple he was donating the material to, signed away any rights/claims to being a father. This is completely and utterly wrongheaded on behalf of the state, and I hope the man is able to take it to appeals.

And I say that as a lesbian who has been in a similar situation to the women in this case. (we ended up not having kids, but were looking at the possibility).

No. You're fucked, because you took drugs to feel better.

You may be more contageous because of the bugs replicating, but the real problem is the huge number of them flooding and overwhelming your own system.

That'll work great with anti-trust laws.... let alone jurisdictions where the insurance is government....

Different jurisdictions, yadda yadda. In Canada, traction control is mandatory. (and with it, stability control and anti-lock brakes, because you can't have traction control without those two)

Apologists.

There, now that we have that out of the way, and are safe from unnecessary ad hominem attacks (that, by the way, is the reason I chose this user name: it's a pretty good asshole detector. People who pass the test are the ones who don't comment on it as part of their justification for why they think they're right and I'm wrong), we can simply say that I don't really care whether he'd been doing it for months or years. He still wore a wearable video camera into a movie theatre. It's clear he didn't think about the repercussions for his actions, and rather than whine about how he got hassled by the FBI on the Internet (where such claims are essentially unverifiable), perhaps he should be taking a good long look at himself and why he didn't realize that it'd be a bad idea in the first place.

The plural of anecdote is not data, but I figured I'd lend a me-too to support what you're saying --

I have a gaming system. It's 2 years old. Core i5 2500k, overclocked at 4.8GHz, with 16GB of RAM. I bought it for $1000, 2 years ago, and haven't needed to upgrade anything. Not even the video card. It's currently connected to the TV via HDMI, with an xbox controller connected to it, and I play Steam games on the big screen with it. It'll be a while before it needs any kind of upgrade, in part because I've gone to Linux on the gaming machine (was originally Windows 7), and in part because since buying a Playstation, I don't see much point in playing the rat race on the desktop.

I'm currently typing this on a 3-year old Dell Vostro v130n, which came with Ubuntu 10.04, 2GB of RAM, and a dual core 1.2GHz Sandy Bridge celeron. The version of Linux that's on it has changed to something much more modern, but other than that, it does *everything* I want on a laptop. I literally cannot see any reason to ever replace this laptop before it dies a horrible death. That could happen as soon as I click submit to this comment, but it could also be years before that happens. My next laptop will probably be a chromebook... wiped for my preferred flavour of Linux, but the majority of computer users wouldn't even need to do that, because ChromeOS does everything they want with their computers for a fraction of the cost of buying a Windows machine, let alone something like a Macbook Pro or Air.

Vista didn't actually suck all that much if you used it for enough time... the real problem with Vista* was that it took a while for the prefetch service to learn which applications you used most frequently. Once it got a handle on what you liked to do with the system, it was actually fairly zippy. During the first couple of weeks with Vista, however, it was horrible. SP1 improved this, but it was still an unpleasant experience for its first few weeks.

* -- that's aside from the obvious bits about driver incompatibility and the fact that they dropped an OS with a 1GB minimum RAM requirement (2GB for 64-bit) in an era when it was normal to see systems with 512MB.

He still wore a wearable video camera into a movie theatre. What the hell did he think would happen?

It boggles the mind that people are being apologists for what he did. I agree that it probably didn't need involvement of the FBI, but how anybody could be so incredibly naive as to think that wearing a video camera into a movie theatre would be a good idea is just incredible.

Perhaps if he was able to scrape together $1500 for Google Glass (presumably more since he's got prescription lenses in it), he could have found $50 for a pair of cheap prescription glasses to use in places where Glass either isn't feasible or allowed....

http://www.zennioptical.com/lo...

If it's his only pair of prescription lenses, then he's an idiot. If he owns other prescription lenses but decided to bring the wearable video camera to a movie theater anyway, then he's at best a troll and at worse, still an idiot.

See there's the issue. The closest store to you is a 15 minute drive away. The closest store to me is a 2 minute walk. Sure, stock up on staples that don't expire (just bought a 20lb bag of rice today, for example, which is several months' supply), but when you live that close to a store with a good deli/meat section and good produce, why wouldn't you walk there to get fresh ingredients daily? They're much better for you than frozen when it's in season, and meat that hasn't been frozen tastes way better.

I drive significantly less than I did 10 years ago. I moved into the city, and am now able to take public transit to work, which was, previously, the lion's share of my driving.

As for the why... the price of fuel is a pretty big factor. Between that, and the fact that I'm now living in an area where public transit is a viable option, I don't really see the point in driving the car for anything other than shopping trips, and I can do most of those on the weekend. The very few things I may need during the week can be had at the grocery store, deli, or drug store across the street from my apartment building.

I still own a car, and I can't see myself ever giving it up, but I don't *need* to drive everywhere like I did when I lived in the country.