Next the US PTO needs to strip Notre Dame University of its disparaging trademarks. As an American partially of Irish descent, I have always been greatly offended by the "Fighting Irish," and their despicable mascot, which are both horrible and inaccurate stereotypes. Apple should be next, as the word "apple" is far too common to be limited solely to an electronics manufacturer who has never actually sold any fruit. Finally, I would like to request that Pizza Hut no longer be allowed to use "Pizza" in their trademarks, as they do not sell actual pizza.

You could call the prototype "Biodome," and I bet you could make an amazing comedy about it.

Don't forget carbon nanotubes and the cloud! Everything worth anything in the future will require both.

But the question had nothing to do with command lines...

Maybe you need to upgrade your hardware once in a while, as ALL of the choices above (except Unity - never tried it, that I can recall) seem reasonably fast to me. That, or you are a very, very impatient person.

Before Gnome 3, I preferred Gnome. MATE is okay, but I have moved on. Now it is definitely Cinnamon for me, as I refuse to use Gnome 3. I will admit that I've only really used it on Mint and Mint Debian, but those are the only systems I use much anymore, aside from when I am forced to use Windows at work. KDE has always seemed bulky and is just not intuitive to me, though I take each major new version for a spin because it always looks so nice.

XFCE and LXDE are both worthy competitors (or were, the last time I checked), but a little plain and barebones for my liking.

So HP has a crappy, crippled $100 tablet? So what? It sounds like a real turd designed by the company penny pinchers, not a nice tablet at a bargain of a price. Boooooriiiiing... I wonder how much this one will go for in a couple months when they discontinue it.

Yes, BeOS was interesting... like 15 years ago. Today, not so much. And by not so much I mean, "People actually use Haiku? Who? And WHY?" I could do most of what I need to do today on WIndows 3.11, but that doesn't mean it would be a good idea.

Old and uneducated people who think Internet Explorer *is* the internet and have always had it set as their default search engine since they bought their current computer and don't realize that there is any alternative. That's it, no one really uses it by choice. I hear it works well for funny cat videos and finding out what time the local pharmacy opens.

Excellent point. So don't just blame Google when it fails you. Blame your crappy business model that puts too many eggs in too few baskets, and the advertisers that account for Google's revenue. Google can be an incredible resource and a traffic and revenue generator for you, but you can't just do whatever you want, refuse to adapt, and expect to cash in forever.

If you really do put people in fully autonomous cars, will they ever get where they want to go? Where will cars go if they are fully autonomous? Will they choose to go anywhere, or just rest a lot? I'd prefer an "automatic" car, that goes wherever I tell it to without me having to drive it.

Ep. II was one of three movies I literally fell asleep in the middle of, and I consider myself a big Star Wars fan. The other were Fantasia (I was very young and tired, and it has some slow parts), and Sense and Sensibility (chick flick, and one of the most boring movies ever made). Attack of the Clones was that bad.

Why, and why? You raise questions and jump to conclusions, but all without answers. Why is this not anonymous (more or less), and what is wrong with the code? Have you reviewed it? Just blind suspicion?

Whichever one is received first. The escrow portion of this is the easy and simple part, and you guys are over-complicating it.

It's still important and worthy of conversation. The US constitution was enacted a long time ago and has been reported on numerous times, so should we not worry about it anymore? Jeez...