If you're not agreeing with them, but just rolling over, then you deserve what you get.

Will you be paying their legal bill? No? Then STFU.

There are varying degrees of stability and I felt that after 7 years of development, official inclusion into the Linux kernel, Facebook deployment and the default fs on OpenSUSE that it's good enough for my laptop, workstation and a few other systems. Having that said, I've not migrated by backup drives yet, they're still on XFS. It may be a while until I migrate those. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...

I've slowly been moving all my systems to Btrfs from least important to most important and have had no problems so far.

They do but arming their own men is a poor investment compared to using Government services.

I was going to mod you up but it seems pointless. When it comes to economics, the crowd here is so out of touch that anyone who brings up a reasonable argument gets burried. The illusion that we can get stuff for free has bamboozled the vast majority of people but the rude awakening is near and anyone who's paying attention knows it. You'll need hard assets to ride the next imminent downturn.

On the other hand, if your site can only survive by being paid for with ads, you need a new business model.

Google needs a new business model?

The first time I experienced this affect was a few year ago while I was walking in some local trails. All of a sudden my body ducked and only after did I realise that I was about to hit a low hanging tree branch. Our mind is living in the past.

Running IE is like kids playing with a loaded gun? You're the idiot.

Instead of using force to break things up, I would remove the laws that give large corporations an advantage and special privileges over smaller companies. The problem however is that most of these laws are sponsored by the large corporations and the corruption is rampant. We can either take our government back, in a possibly painful and bloody revolution or reduce the size of government to make it a less effective weapon for large corporations.

Surprisingly, it's not government funded. I totally expected this be funded by the government.

negative externalities

How Do You Pay Your Taxes?

Through the nose.

I haven't run GNOME 3 on a tablet yet so can't help you there. I'm impressed that you got as far as you did though.

GNOME is much more than a window manager and you'd know that if you really were checking code out of CVS and compiling it. I'm doubting the truth of your post AC.

GNOME Shell took some time to learn and about a week to get used to but I'd never go back. It's a nice improvement over the old paradigm. There has been some regressions but nothing major and they're easily outweighed by the improvements. I think their movement towards integrating web technologies is great and I have yet to see other DE do it to the same extent. Did you know that you could style your desktop with CSS and write Shell extensions in JavaScript? Finding apps has never been easier. I just hit the meta key and start typing. Sure, other environments do that, heck even Windows does it now, but Gnome Shell does it better. I really like how dynamic creation of virtual desktops, how easy it is to move apps between them.

Most of the GNOME criticism seems to be towards Shell but I think that it's just because it's different and some people just don't want to learn a better way to do things. They find it painful and while I also find it painful sometimes, I know it's temporary and for long term benefits. I'll be using a computer for another 40 years so I don't mind investing a week here and there to make those next 40 years more enjoyable.

There's no need to take a photo and send it; the QR code can include a URL with crash info. The user would simply need to scan it and follow the link.

The message could be: "Please scan QR code to report Linux kernel bug."