you forgot the "checkmate"

If you point a telescope into deeper space you can effectively look further back in time. Maybe not the same thing as watching a single star get older, but it's better than sitting around for 6 billion years and watching paint dry. Hell, you might even be able to measure rotational period accurately enough to verify a theory.

And by copying I don't mean "copy/paste" but rather referencing some digital medium to do the things you are doing (should have used "referencing" instead).

Having two monitors is a huge deal if you're copying something from one program into another. One thing that comes to mind (perhaps not particularly common of a developer) is writing up a project report from spreadsheet data, email reports, paraphrasing a contractor's report, copying a lost file that has only been printed and scanned (not common, but it does happen), etc. In this case, having multiple desktops on one monitor would be not much more than an annoyance in these cases; it's a little like saying "why do I need desk space for one fully open book when I can just look at one at a time, half-open each book to look at, or just put it on the desk behind me?"

there should be no "degrees" before "kelvin"

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Agreed. Except for the stupid button grouping idea (which everyone seems to be jumping on-board with, and the first thing I disable). "Too many taskbar entries clutter up the taskbar." Then close some windows or get a good tabbed browser!

Yeah, and in XP the first thing I did was disable taskbar grouping, disable custom menus in the start menu, disable, disable, disable. Same old garbage in windows 7.. disable button grouping, etc. The bottom line is that it sounds like ubuntu 11.10 will spell the death of the ability to disable the unity interface. Super annoying for break-away tab browsers like chrome.

Or change that requires 3 mouse clicks where there used to be 1. Not to mention change where you lose on-screen vital information.

Why are we using our hands at all? Just make the car drive where you look. Sounds great; what could possibly go wrong?

Or they use the cheapest microprocessor they can get away with

To be fair, I noticed that using a CRT with a digital source (e.g. satellite), it seemed like there was some interval after changing a channel where the receiver needed some amount of data (or some time interval) before it could start displaying an image. This timing seemed to be aggravated by water between the satellite and dish (rainclouds), or a poor calibration resulting in a low signal strength.

Also, managing digital pixel data is a bit more complex than syncing an analog signal to a scanning cathode. Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending the process (I agree with you that the delays are annoying).

Porblem sloved.

Yes! Plus, they made the ribbon to make "hidden" features more visible, but in Office 2003 a seasoned user can add all the "hidden" features into a custom button on a custom toolbar; all that without having to take up 1/5 of the screen real estate.

You can bet money that usage-based billing is the cable company's answer to this "ask slashdot." They're fearing people dropping their "just add more customers and make more money without moving any more product" business model. I never picked up cable since I moved out on my own and I've never regretted it. At the very least, I will read web pages (typically science stuff :P) while I'm bored, eating, or whatever. Sometimes I will even go to stations that offer their shows for free and watch that (e.g. space or CTV).