I must commend you on the the fuel breakdown! My comment, however, was way beyond the fuel cost as that is negligible. I was thinking more on the legacy costs of overhead, engineering, production, etc. Given a budget of a couple hundred million and the number of years to create a prototype arrived me to my previous statement.

Roughly 3 million taxpayer dollars a second for basically nothing?

First solution would be to change the laws and force the banks to be just banks and not a forum for creating markets on the backs of the innocent. Allowing them to have investment capabilities under the same roof was the biggest mistake ever allowed. I still can't wrap my head around companies that are either under government control or still owe the government money for the bailouts are still delving bonuses. Talk about an egregious slap in the face.

All the GUIs mentioned can be altered to your needs and each do everything required. If anything to be extended from these opinions would be mainly choice of OS. Like picking a car with automatic or manual transmissions or a moon roof versus convertible, etc.

When will they improve or give up on Unity?

Now that is what I call a sticky situation!

With the holiday layoffs occurring and the housing market still in shambles, it is only fitting somebody has found a way to break into prison for the free room and board.

You're just another BRIC in the wall.

Reminds me of the scene in Young Einstein when the patent office denied Albert a patent on a formula. Millions of patents these days based on nothing but an idea hiding in wait to sue some company who actually produces something you squatted but never truly took it beyond paper.

Anonymous coward obviously lacks skills in grammar and forethought.

So how is NASA not a Ponzi scheme? Screwing people out of billions while providing nothing more than hypotheses? Oh, wait. They are powered by the government. They are free to squander money at will and give very shitty results.

I didn't know there was a problem. I have had zero issues with it so don't blame the OS for your inept ability to properly manage your files.

...and the donkey show is somewhere in between...