Hmm, "who cares about the high end consumer market"? What about the high end professional market? I have worked in several engineering departments where ALL development is done on Linux/Unix boxes and high end graphics are a must (EDA IC design tools for instance). I'm sure there are many more (closed source) applications that run on open source systems that need high end graphics performance and the engineers demanded the performance/features needed.

Every time I have tried to use the Nouveau drivers, it breaks my windowing system in some way I must tweak just to get working again (Ubuntu 12.04, CentOS, and a few others that I run).

I must be one of the rare instances where AMD drivers/cards just worked well for me.

I created my resume in OpenOffice and just export it to pdf. When HR/recruiter requests a word format, I tell them I have no Microsoft systems at home (been 100% linux for >10 years as well) and to just copy from the pdf and paste into there word app. They kinda go DUH! and thank me for the suggestion.

I've managed to get jobs without problem for the past 10 years this way (I have had only 4 jobs in the past 20 years).

I went through this at Forum credit union when I signed up for and activated my online account there. I had to go through a "training" exercise by entering my password 5 times until the system was satisfied it found my "pattern" of cadence & rhythm of typing.

It has only failed to log me in a couple times over the years and all it does is make you answer your security q's when it fails.

I wonder if our servers will do the same thing since we run ~30 Ubuntu servers. Will I have to stop updating/upgrading my servers at the next version?

Hopefully this is limited to systems with GUI's installed and not headless servers.

No way you'd get me to use this service. At my last job, the company used Office 365 Live. It completely sucked. It is slow, especially if there is any latency or ISP trouble. Second, when they setup my Outlook account, it took 6 weeks for MS to get it to work right (something about how the account was created in the wrong context or something)

X11vnc on the server and vncviewer on the client. There, your headless server can now run a GUI desktop for you.

Why does an HP printer driver software need an installer that runs for over 45 minutes on a fast (3+GHz) multi-core system? Almost as bad just to UNINSTALL it.

I can't imagine anything so complicated for a printer driver to take that long to install (heck I can copy an entire CDROM to disk in just a few seconds).

What the heck are installers doing while you watch the progress dialog box for 2 minutes that says "Determining Disk Space", when you can get the disk freespace from the dir command in .001 seconds?

What "threshold"? If pot really has such an impairment effect, then why not just use the standard sobriety test. Who cares about blood levels, etc. until it is determined that a driver is impaired in a real-world test. If they fail the test or caused an accident, then go on to determine the THC levels for evidence to back up the sobriety test.

I have met some very stoned people that you would be hard-pressed to figure out they were even high, much less so stoned that their dexterity/reflexes obviously suffered. It doesn't even seem to make much difference whether they smoked one joint or 5, being stoned is so much different than being drunk that you can't even compare the two states.

I've had iphones since the 3G was released and have never had a lockup or reboot. Anecdotal evidence I know, But it at least proves it's not the platform's fault but likely bad apps that cause the problems.

(e) satisfy priority communications requirements through the use of commercial, Government, and privately owned communications resources, when appropriate;

How is that not "seizing" private resources?

For supporting and voting for this supreme ruler. And you thought Bush was bad, we are all so much better off now. Transparency, my ass!

All the new taxes^H^H^H^H, err mandates are gonna really hurt this middle class citizen.

Comcast on-demand has been doing to this us for some time (almost a year) now. I know they are describing a DVR here, but how much different is it from disabling commercials on-demand?

It is really annoying and will drive me away from them if it continues. Guess it's back to OTA and DVD's. Oh, wait there's OTH ATSC that can have the broadcast bit set so I can't record and and skip on my own there either. :-(

Your anecdotal evidence is is worth next to nothing. We have owned nothing but Pontiacs for 20 years and they have all lasted until the (figuratively speaking) wheels fell off.

We currently own 3 Pontiacs and they are just as good as any other car on the road:

The wife's 2000 Grand Am GT had a few minor problems while under warranty but is still a reliable daily driver today with 189K mi. My 45 year old '67 Firebird has near 200K miles on it and I haven't repaired more than brakes, battery, & clutch in it. I have a 2005 GTO and it has had no problems and is a FUN car to drive (400hp/400 ft-lbs).

You obviously bought a lemon and should have sold, traded, or returned it.

So, why does it suddenly cost so much more (relative to tax rates and the population paying into the system) to provide these infrastructure and services now? A few decades ago, the spending levels were plenty enough to maintain a decent level of services. Now the population is even bigger putting even more tax revenues into the system. Where'd all the money go (I know, the welfare state & bank bailouts)?

Sometimes I wonder how we ever got the interstate highway system we have now, because if it had to be built today it would never happen.

I don't know what your environment looks like for all you who claim instability, but I keep FF open for weeks at a time without any issues lately.

Those of you who claim it is so unstable, you better check your operating environment or which addons/plugins are crashing it because I'm just not seeing it!