Sounds like a Feature, not a bug... Replace that Gnome with something worthwhile.

Given that the conference you're describing is most likely .conf, and that means Splunk, you should go easy on your employer as you're already blowing their budget on license.

Have you ever used/looked at PARC Star? It bears about as much resemblance to what actually released as Mac OS as a Model T does to a Ferrari: The parts are recognizable, but someone has obviously put a lot of time and work into making someone _want_ the second.

People seem to be forgetting that if Apple didn't have actual UI engineers developing what a system should look like, OSS folks would have no idea how to design one...

Actually...

In the US, we have no real numbers on gun control and suicide rates, homicide rates, or pretty much anything else because the gun lobby has worked to destroy any public funding for such research, and to end careers of anyone who tries to independently study them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/us/26guns.html?pagewanted=all

In Australia, they had real, significant reductions in suicides when they implemented their gun controls. Also, they had previously had a number of mass shootings, and have had 0 since.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/opinion/australia-banned-assault-weapons-america-can-too.html

"The Australian Institute of Criminology found that gun-related murders and suicides fell sharply after 1996. The American Law and Economics Review found that our gun buyback scheme cut firearm suicides by 74 percent. In the 18 years before the 1996 reforms, Australia suffered 13 gun massacres — each with more than four victims — causing a total of 102 deaths. There has not been a single massacre in that category since 1996."

AU suicide stats: http://www.mindframe-media.info/for-media/reporting-suicide/facts-and-stats

I do not agree that the service doesn't make sense. If one has a Mac, for example, this service suddenly opens up dozens of games which the developers would not have released as native any time in the near future. If you have something like a Macbook Air, or any device with a smaller storage space, this alleviates having to load and remove games when you want to play them. It leaves your space for games which you want to dedicate to, without having to compromise on what you want to play Right Now. Network issues resolve pretty easily.... As service popularity rises, adding more gear, bandwidth, and optimization becomes a lot easier. As for "buying" games, their PlayPack service, at $10 a month for unlimited play of 80+ games, seems like an easy sell for a casual dabblers like me, especially compared to buying PC games where you cannot easily resell them when you've moved on.

I suppose it makes sense that all 10 people who use camino might have a higher average IQ than the billions who use IE versions.

NO!!!! Chuck Norris is so far to the right that he makes Colbert's persona look left of socialist.

When introducing yourself to Scotch (Even Single Malt) don't be afraid to add a bit of water to it. You actually allow more of the fragrance of the alcohol to diffuse as you dilute the drink, and so the flavor maintains very well, while reducing the pure alcohol burn which turns off many exploring drinkers.

I would personally prefer to stay away from Monsanto based products not because I don't trust their science, but because I dislike their business practices and media tomfoolery. GM crops are a double-edged sword by all neutral study, having definite benefits of their own but creating potentially disastrous consequences (super-bugs and super-weeds, which are nearly immune to conventional herb- or insecticides), but the Intellectual Property abuse that comes of their use is hurting more farmers than those issues for now.

The idea of a universal symbol language which translates to other languages without syntax is not new, but nobody has done it any "better" than this. The basic symbol sets do indeed capture the most essential frameworks for a message, but there is no mandate for how to create words beyond the initial set, and if words continue to come in then the character set will grow too large for a non-dedicated user to comprehend it.

On a more worrying note: There are major accessibility issues which have been ignored, which I am concerned might leave some things mistranslated. The most obvious example is having symbols of identical shape, but differing colors, with different meanings. This is bad for color-blind users obviously. Additionally, I was having a hard time differentiating the details of some symbols, even though I'm on a full size computer screen, wearing my glasses, etc. On a cell phone I'm willing to bet that won't be easier.