I actually find that a combination of window managers is what fixes that issue for me (As in yes it is nice to see multiple things at once, but I do want SOME things to be maximized). On my work computer I have two monitors, one (the smaller one) that boots up with openbox on it and I usually use it for displaying a browser for research, testing, etc. The other has dwm for my terminal windows as I like to have more than one at a time up for editing multiple files, or other fun stuff. I also find that a tiling WM deals with multiple windows in a way that I find far less stressful.

This doesn't directly relate to the article but does relate to essentially every single comment ever on slashdot being a hate on for GNOME 3. There are several different arguments that people generally make so I'll address the ones I can think of.

1. GNOME 3 is different than [insert other DE here, usually GNOME 2] so I don't like it. ... are you serious? I mean it may seem childish when I state it that way, but probably about 50% of the arguments against G3 don't consist of anything more than that.

2. The interface is too simple Well what do you want? Whenever I'm looking for ways to change my own UI, the most easily findable ones are always how to simplify it, I assume that functional simplicity is a popular, and good, thing (especially among the non-linux users who everyone seems to think GNOME 3 will drive away).

3. I can't customize it enough Well, yeah. Because it's new. The vast majority of customizations for GNOME 2 are third party programs and/or themes, which are available because it's been out for so long.

Anyways I could find more, but the point is this, there is nothing inherently wrong with it, one of the beautiful things about the linux world is that it gives you the chance to choose, not just choose the distribution, which widely vary, but your DE, IDE, dock, system monitor, terminal, shell, hell, you can even change things in the kernel if you know what your doing. This may astound people but I REALLY LIKE GNOME 3, and HATE GNOME 2. However I realize that this is a matter of personal preference and that there is nothing really wrong with gnome 2 persay. I like having a launcher in the launchy sytle (which is really efficient by the way, you hit one button and type in what you want), and dislike the menu system in GNOME 2. Does that mean it is bad, NO, it means I have an opinion, but I do think GNOME 2 was executed well.

So go use something else if you don't like it, and stop telling me that I'm the stupidest person on the face of the earth for an OPINION that is different than yours.

I fail to the correlation, making a silly name takes 3 seconds, writing a driver does not.

While I don't doubt that it's do-able, and that they may even be on the moon when they say they will, it seems a little bit early to me. I may be wrong about this as I only read space articles once in a while, but my impression is that they won't be pulling a profit for quite a while. Who's going to provide the volume of purchases necessary to turn a profit on a moon base?

Well seeing as a portion of those countries are G20 nations, and a G7 country as well.... Saying they have little worldly influence is like saying Google is a small company without much influence just because you can't see it behind ExxonMobile

Last I checked 230 + 230 = 460. So if the shortest route is nearly 400 miles wouldn't the 230 mile battery pack work fine? I mean yeah you have to account for getting out of an into the city, but 60 extra miles seems like enough to me. So the owners of the 160 mile battery wouldn't be able to make it, which given the market for Tesla cars, I'm sure is a minority. Additionally this is supposed to be the first of many, so they'll just have to wait a bit longer. I may be wrong, but the submitter of the article seems to want to label this hope instilling progress as either not good enough or proof of electric cars not working, I'm not really sure.

Okay, while this was kinda cool, like most people have been mentioning, nothing new really... To be honest when I read the title I thought it was some sort of advancement of this caliber: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfVS-npfVuY