I can't believe they dont do code reviewing by peers and stuff like that. They have a pretty good mentality about things and I guess that applies to software coders as well.

Cutting the fuel pump isnt the right solution, what if you need to accelerate right after you braked hard? You're doomed, you just killed the engine!
They should just implement a huge red panic button to shut everything off :)

I am not absolutely certain external HDDs do it the right way. I think it's more of a hack job allowing them to use maybe 600mA (500 on the data port + base 100 on the next one).

Wrong. A device can only receive up to 100mA without asking for it (like a keyboard, mouse, etc.) The USB spec calls for a 500mA maximum. Many usb devices need more and use 2 ports (like external 2.5" hdds).

We don't need more proof... The govt of Canada isnt doing anything good with our healthcare... why would the US do any better?

Thanks! I'll check it out!

If you use Gnome and liked Amarok 1.x, you could also take a look at Exaile. It's pretty much Amarok 1.x for Gnome, except that it's still actively developed. It doesn't feel as bloated as Songbird either.

You can do this too with the Expo plugin for compiz! Sure it's a copy of Exposé for the mac, but it works!

So it's just like running compiz and the scale plugin? GNOME devs shouldnt be reinventing the wheel and making it square at the same time. I hope theres a way in gnome3 to keep the old gnome2 behaviour or they continue to maintain gnome2 because I have a feeling lots of people wont be upgrading!

Simply set the workspace count to 1 and dont use em! Workspaces enhance productivity on a desktop, just like having more than one monitor!

It does it for most system stuff (like prefs, etc.) but often 3rd party apps arent set to use this (like nvidia-settings). The run as root could be useful for some scripts and stuff, it could just prepend gksudo to the command.

And let us use the contextual menu (right click) in list view even if it's loaded with items! I hate going back to icons view just to be able to right click to create a folder!!

I use GNOME everyday and I can tell you that having 2 bars is very useful (and you can edit everything, including removing panels if you dont like having 2 of em).
I personally have the applications list on the bottom one (like Windows) and on the top, I have a bunch of shortcuts to everything I need to use quickly (term, firefox, etc.) and it's very good. It's even more useful when you have 2 screens, you get to have 2 different applications panels and you can distinguish which window is on which screen, unlike Windows.

I need to have everything I need quickly accessible, ala Windows "Quick Launch". I used to have my windows taskbar 2 units high (in XP and earlier) because I needed more space for the shortcuts. GNOME's solution to this is more elegant, IMO.

I used to run Amarok 1 on gnome (yeah I know..), but now that they f'd it up in 2.0, I switched to Songbird. It has much less features and looks like a copy of iTunes but I know Mozilla is actively working on it :)

GNOME Do is wonderful and who cares if it runs on mono? Tomboy notes does too and its well integrated and it doesn't crash.