So far the tax advantages of marriage seem to be only geared toward single-income families, couples where one person makes the majority of the income, or families with children. As two professionals with no kids (DINKS!) we repeatedly got screwed over on our taxes. Maybe this was partially because of the complexity of the withholding system or something, but all I know is that in the end we've ended up owing a ton almost every time.

Because Facebook doesn't work well enough? How do I find a historical post someone made on Facebook without scrolling endlessly through their page until I find it? Not to mention searching public profiles/feeds/whatever for some topic of interest. Facebook's mobile apps suck. They suck hard. You'd think the largest social web company in the world would be able to hire some developers to put together mobile apps that blow you away. But they're barely serviceable. The Instant Upload feature of the G+ apps makes getting media to Google+ (videos and photos) light years easier than Facebook.

I think Google+'s major flaw is the comparison to Facebook in the first place. To me, it's more a direct functional replacement for Twitter, but with much better ways to handle interaction and conversation. (For that matter, how do you search Twitter for historical stuff?) And then it can accomplish what Facebook does, too.

I'm on Ubuntu 12.04, using Gnome3 from the PPA. I tried Unity but was getting weirdness with Chrome's tabs not tearing and reattaching correctly and I didn't really like the Unity interface. I'd played with Gnome3 awhile back and have been using it since. I like the style but find it clumsy to manage multiple windows. I dunno, maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I've got my editor, browser, and terminal open and it seems clumsy switching from one to another. But I'm on a laptop and working with everything fullscreen is a pain, but the interface doesn't seem to work well with working with smaller windows, either. I dunno, maybe I need to adjust to it, go downstairs and use a second monitor for that work.

But how does Cinnamon compare? Would it be worth looking at the PPA for that and using it?

When you're beside them they tend to get you dirty. No one wants that.

I'm quite happy with my Galaxy Nexus on Verizon, and wouldn't change it for any AT&T Android phone at the moment.

Thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for!

After reading a few articles, here's what I still want to know:

If you want to pay for the service, can you opt for a year-long contract or something? It seems like a reasonable price, but I'd rather not have yet another monthly charge.

How does the space work compared with whatever allocated space your other Google services have? Right now I've got some amount of Gmail space, some amount of Picasa space, unlimited (?) Google+ space for images and videos (which still show up in Picasa web but don't apply to the quota?), and then the Google Docs space. Will there be any consolidation of this? Do I want there to be?

Will we be able to use the GDrive app on my phone to store something like a keepass password file (encrypted) and access it from multiple devices? I can do that with Dropbox right now.

Anything? Does Instagram have any sort of lock on "Implementing digital image filters on a mobile phone" or something that would explain a $1 bil valuation? Seeing how there's a ton of ripoff apps I wouldn't think so but you never know. Couldn't Facebook have made something in-house and have it automatically Just Work for their existing users, most I assume who are a cross section from the Instagram users?

Is that what you call it?

But isn't that the point, that having grown up on Earth they go through the things other kids go through and enjoy the things other teenagers enjoy? I assume it was something kids could relate to, and in addition they were ninjas. Who doesn't like ninjas!

If they're aliens why the hell would they enjoy Earth pizza and skateboarding and surfing and whatnot?

"Why would anyone want to use Linux as their everyday desktop (or laptop) operating system?"

For me, I find non-Microsoft web development much easier on Linux that in Windows. I can set up a dev environment with web server and database all native and local and for the most part it Just Works. On Windows I find I either have to still configure a Linux server VM and set up my stuff there to write code on Windows and target the VM server, or go through some sort of WAMP setup. But I never feel like the various pieces running on Windows are as good as their Linux counterparts which is where the final product is going to run anyway. Java development, too, seems to just work better in Linux.

That said, after running Ubuntu for a couple years on my laptop I reinstalled with Windows 7 and have been there ever since. I originally just wanted to play a Steam game and it just wasn't working under Linux. But I also grew tired of having to hack things and run scripts from the Internet just to make things work. Just off the top of my head I remember dealing with:

graphics drivers for my Thinkpad T500
CUPS pdf printing that just disappeared and kept needing to be re-added
wrestling with browser plugins - things would work with Firefox but I'd have to play games to get them to work with Chromium
wrestling with getting any sort of Citrix plugin to work on 64-bit so I could access my employer's network

More disconcerting to me was mention in a few of these articles that Gannett was going to start implementing paywall's for their papers' sites, too. I don't read the NYT, but my local area paper is a Gannett publication. I don't have time to read a newspaper, digital or print, to make it worth subscribing. But I'll check out the headlines every so often to keep up on what's going on. They already charge for archives and archive anything older than about a week so I'm already locked out of historical things.

Will a paid digital subscription open up the archives and get rid of the ads on the page? Gannett websites are some of the absolute worst I've come across in terms of ads, layout, Flash crap, and just overall awfulness.

I wondered if I was the only one that this was happening to. I'd be half way through building something and then all of a sudden the ball starts flying past the contact point where it was hitting before. I'll adjust for that, it'll work fine for awhile more and then third step in it starts missing that contact point. I couldn't figure out if there was some weird variation happening or if my work filter was screwing with whatever physics calculations were happening or if it was supposed to be truly random or what. Finally I just gave up and decided I had better things to bang my head against!

It's the Android Market - rebranded.