What about mosaics, or chimeras.. (or whatever the term is)?

They can't even do the one thing they're supposed to do - publish news - decently, unless you count celebrity X kisses celebrity Y's ass as news. how on earth can you think they can bring out a *better* search engine than Google's?

Depends. Which driver? The wifi drivers? GPU drivers? I have a Dell Vostro that has no driver problem except for those two. And as far as I can tell, those are the two main areas where driver problems still exist (except maybe for audio). I'd guess that the GPU is Intel's, so drivers aren't a concern, and the wifi drivers shouldn't be a problem if Dell picks the right card (same for audio). So where did the extra 50 come from? And I'd gladly pay the extra 50 over the standard price, if a) Dell released a solid 15" laptop with enough ports and peripherals, not Ultrabook nonsense and b) if they released it in India, where I live.

Don't they have some deal with M$ preventing them from selling laptops with non-MS OSes installed? That was that why they had the whole n-series, with only FreeDOS on them and a CD of Ubuntu in the box. Maybe the extra 50 is perhaps an exception fee or something?

"way back" being the key phrase here. Would the GNOME devs have used that screen if Windows hadn't featured it? I know corelation doesn't imply causation, but this does stink of a me-too thing. Now that I think of it, GDM's lock screen is even less funtional than Windows 8's.

Woosh! Or is my sarcasm detector misfiring?

we had Andersdotters here in India. Young politicians here are 40+, most are 60+ who can't understand tech if their lives depended on it. hence the facebook-post-arrests seen recently.

Have you seen the new GDM lock screen? What is that, if not a blatant rip-off of the lock screen of 'that which was formerly known as Metro'? Back to Cinnamon + LightDM for me. I never much liked GDM and this stupid lock screen is enough to send me running to LightDM.

Not directly, since the upgrade tool packaged is for Ubuntu, and well create a horrible mix of Ubuntu Quantal and Mint 13 if used (if it even worked at all). There are alternate instructions provided at http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2

(Emphasis mine) Huh? Are they being sarcastic or funny?

Forgot ME?

So I should cut off my arms and legs and use prosthetics just cause I need to use pliers every now and then?

In football (the association one), it's quite common to have animated GIFs of various match events, a poor man's highlights video. Often enough, these appear during the match itself, much before the videos do. So this is one case where someone might logically ask, "Has that goal been GIFed yet?"

The thing is, how can you be sure it's the artist's website and not something the MAFiAA have set up for them? A while back, on facebook, a site called GiveMeFootball went about setting up pages for various popular footballers and calling them 'official'. They are 'official', in that they are official GMF pages, but have no endorsement from the players themselves. Is something like this possible for MAFiAA with domains?

Because the parent newspaper being linked to, the Times of India has slowly become the equivalent of toilet paper.