I can't say I fully understand this type of reaction. Being your typical geek/gamer combo, the idea of having my own personal HUD in RL I find to be at the very least intriguing, and potentially awesome. At the same time, I don't particularly care if someone is recording me in public.

The bottom line is, even when people wearing these are recording, you're not the recording. You're scenery at most, obvious exceptions excluded.

Not everyone runs Ubuntu. I wouldn't consider it solved until it's an easily installed package on most or all of the major distros.

I'm a generation behind you (I'm 29), but even when I graduated HS the curriculum had been trimmed down drastically. There were approximately two shop classes, three AP classes, and the rest was only the basic core stuff - a single foreign language (Spanish), biology, algebra, trig, geometry, typing/basic CIS, and a smattering of other subjects.

No psychology, no philosophy, no non-latin foreign languages, no math beyond pre-calculus (which was what we had labeled as AP Calculus), and even chemistry was missing from the curriculum. Granted, it's a school in a poor rural area, but there are a lot of poor rural areas in the US.

Words can't express how far behind I felt when I finally hit university, despite graduating at the top of my class in HS with the most difficult curriculum I was able to piece together from the meager offerings.

Education is heavily touted during election season, but unfortunately it's the first thing sent to the chopping block when budgets are tight.

Or he could have voted 3rd party. As a citzenry we can start legitimately complaining about the evils of a two party system when we stop putting ourselves in it.

Glad to see that the Fedora devs are listening to their userbase, according to the new fedUP tool. :)

Your goals are a bit loftier than mine. I'm currently working my way through 50 Shades of Grey...

I'm sure that has nothing at all to do with the fact that little girls are generally given what amounts to replica babies to play with while boys are given action-oriented toys instead.

You can work in most states in the USA as well at age 15 or 16 (and often younger for family businesses). Why is it such a big deal that there are 14 year olds at Foxconn?

I'm in the same boat. I've been using Gnome3 full time for about a year now as well and I'm very happy with it. Want to open something? Press the Win key, type a name, press enter. Viola - I now have (Insert application here) looking at me. Alt-Tab and Alt-~ are mainstays. Switching between virtual desktops is just a Ctrl-Alt-Up or Ctrl-Alt-Down away. I understand the complaints about the lack of customizabilty, as it's sorely lacking; the few extensions I've used have tended to be somewhat buggy as well.But if you're a keyboard user you should feel right at home with Gnome3.

Track rides can be amazing, however. One of my favorite games (well, series) of all time is the Longest Journey / Dreamfall. It's completely on rails, but the stories are amazing it feels more like watching an interactive movie than playing a game.

In comparison, I don't think the game would have felt so tightly engaging if it was presented with the same level of freedom you have in games like GTA and Skyrim.

I drop F-bombs all the time, at a considerably cheaper cost.

The hate isn't completely unfounded. I really enjoy the look of 4.x, but every single version I've tried (4.1-4.7) has had stability problems. On three different machines, all of which have didn't have nearly as many issues with KDE 3.x, Gnome 2.x/3.x, XFCE, etc.

I'll gladly make it my preferred DE once it's safe to use on a primary machine, but until then, I'll stick with the feature-lacking Gnome 3.x.