Everywhere I look it's Samsung, Samsung. My personal experience after having two Samsung phones and two Motorola phones is that Samsung has prettier LCDs and better cameras but their quality sucks. They are constantly locking up or working very slowly. But... everywhere I look the advertising is all about Samsung. Has Google even tried to market it's Motorola stuff? The last time I saw anyone pushing Motorola was back when the kiosk guys at the mall kept stopping people to look at the Lap Dock. I have one now, btw.. I love it! But... I was never going to buy one at their price! I bought it used and cheap after they discontinued them.

Not long ago I found Descent in a thrift store. With fond high school memories I HAD to buy it. The engine was open sourced, you are supposed to be able to compile it on a newer OS and just use the data files from the CD/floppies. I found a Gentoo ebuild for it. Unfortunately all I get is segfaults :-(

I guess I could just try running the original executable in WINE. I was hoping the open source version would have better networking capabilities (Internet vs LAN)

Maybe it's not the GPS but it is a GPS.

It's Global (it works world-wide right?)
It's a Positioning System.

Well.. there ya go

Me too!!!!

Wayland is nothing until there is good remote display support.

>> As long as I can still run X atop Wayland, I don't really care.

If I can't get the applications I want as X apps anymore because everything has moved to Wayland but Wayland still doesn't support remote display then I will care deeply.

If the gas tax is supposed to get people to use less fuel then taxing EVs is pretty counter-productive! Just support the roads from the general tax and use the gas tax to fund alternative energy grants.

No it doesn't. Just stop supporting road construction using fuel taxes. Instead make it part of the general tax.
Oh, what's that I hear? You don't drive? You think that isn't fair that you should support the roads you aren't using?

Bull!

Everyone who lives in a modern society benefits from the road system immensely, even if they walk everywhere they go. Your food, clothing, etc.. they are all shipped on the roads. Maybe you walk to work but what are the odds your employer would stay in business (and your job exist) if the roads all dissappeared tomorrow? Ever ride a bus? Was it on a road? Ever receive mail? Surely at some point it was transported on a road. I could probably go on all day, the roads benefit us all why can't we just pay for it together?

Consider this: If the power usage/content of our technology truly scales in the futre as it did from the past to the present then in the future a malfunction in the equivalent of somebody's cellphone today would have the energy to explode like a nuclear weapon. Perhaps there is a flaw in your logic somewhere?

If mankind or it's decendants ever have access to power like this it isn't going to be in the hands of individuals. It will be in the form of massive projects conducted in space far from any lifebearing planet. Even if we had the ability to give everyone a matter replicator we wouldn't because the potential for tragedy when working with that kind of energy is far too high.

If you want to slave away at some startup working all your waking hours for a fixed sallary just to make the company grow then sure, the job market is hot. If you think that will get you anywhere other than out of a job when the company either folds (90% of the time) or is bought up by a bigger player you are just another naive kid.

Don't get me wrong, there are some good programming jobs out there. I found one! But they are the exception, few and far between.

Oh, and for you program all day long 50+ hours a week types... all those hours sitting at a computer.. that is NOT kind to your body!

KRunner? Ugggh!

I used to use Alt-F2 that all the time, back when all it did was run applications or open urls. Now it's searching so much junk it's slow. Also, before where I would just type an executable name and hit enter, now it wants to give me a list of possibly similar things and make me click one.

I have the same problem with windows. I'm still used to hitting the windows button, the 'r' key and then typing what I want to open. Now it takes forever to do that and it comes up with all sorts of search results I didn't want.

Sure do. Thought about switching to Trinity (KDE3 fork) but it's dependance on QT3 conflicted with newer application's dependancies on QT4.

>>Your brand new server with quad-port Gig-E interfaces still auto-negotiates down to 10Mb speeds. Why?
Because my laptop that I might plug in at some cafe, airport or elsewhere might still have to do 10Mb and it's kind of silly to design a different chip for the server just because it doesn't need that feature.

>>Apple had literally...
Just stop right there. It's Apple! Their fans will buy anything with their logo on it!

>> What exactly was Thunderbolt compatible with when it came out? Or Firewire?
I dunno but I have yet to use either. (Actually I want to like Firewire due to it's daisy chaining ability but the only hardware I ever had that supported it was a CD burner and it just didn't seem to work)

>>Besides, there's a damn good chance that every single piece of computing hardware in your hands today will be replaced within 3-5 years,
Ha Ha Ha!!!!! If you believe that then parts of my computer just might be older than you!

>>and vendors will always see replacement as THE solution
I'm not a vendor

>>so don't expect many long-term favors from them either.
Believe me, I don't.

I'm tired of hearing about any of these standards.

I want something where every port can be host or client or maybe everything is just peers and it doesn't matter. I want it to work in a star topology AND also be capable of being daisy chained. That way I can hook up as many peripherals as I want to a limited number of ports but I can also chose to buy a hub for better performance.

Come on, we had these kinds of features in networking technologies 30 years ago already!

Probably never. All incentive to replace Javascript with a serious programming language were killed by giving the existing Javascript these more powerful capabilities (even though it is still painful to use).