It's a bit less secret now.

Because, you know, while the guys are designing the r2.0 board they're not putting r1.0 boards in boxes and licking stamps?

When we say Gnome sucks, we're talking relative to other open-source desktops. Gnome 3 annoyed me, so I'm now a happy XFCE user. At work I'm forced to use Windows 7. Now that really sucks. When Windows finally figures out how to delete/move a couple of thousand files in less than half an hour, then maybe we can start talking about a 'premium experience'.

God hates...

Think of a modern digital SLR versus an old pure-mechanical film version. The modern design is a pretty impressive balance between keeping the old layout for things you want to find quickly without looking (knobs, buttons, dials), and adding a load of new features that you don't need very often (menu based). Car UI designers would do well to learn from this approach.

What the Arduino crowd have done fantastically well is get a load of people who wouldn't normally mess with a microcontroller to do just that. The community is the strength. There are hundreds (thousands?) of microcontroller demo boards out there, but without the support network they're hard work to use. Not impossible, but development is slower, and restricted to users with more time/enthusiasm. As someone with no previous microcontroller experience you could buy an Arduino kit, unwrap it in the morning, and have something running before dinner. That's pretty incredible.

Until there is an alternative to Solidworks and CST Microwave Studio under Linux, I'm stuck here.As I'm forced to use Windows, and everybody around me uses MS Office, I might as well use it too. Sad but true.

The only application that runs painfully slowly on my Windows machine is Office 2010 (try Word with track changes enabled). The other stuff is actually quite snappy. Is this another case of MS modifying Windows to fix Office?

I have an Xperia Mini (i.e. no slide-out keyboard) and it's great. I held off buying a smartphone for years because most of them are just too big. The screen is a tiny bit smaller than an iphone, but there is less surround so the whole device is smaller. Now if Sony can just figure out how to make it half as thick while doubling the battery life, then I'll be really happy.

Oh dear, you really don't get it. For any technical writing, LaTeX is just better than those office suites. If you write you document in an office suite, and then move it to LaTeX, you miss out on most of the benefit. Equations are one (no, the equation editor in MS Word is not sufficient). Automatic numbering of anything (equations, figures, sections, references, molecules, whatever), and references to them, is another. Yes, I know various office suites can do this, but I never see users using the feature in practice - whereas every LaTeX user I've met uses them extensively.

I have met people who've written their PhD thesis using MS Word. They've all agreed, after the fact, that it wasn't a good plan.

Wait 'til Amazon hear about this...

I expect you will receive a certain amount of harassment from the police if you try to arrest and jail somebody too.

It's good to hear that the Windows users out there are suffering as much as us Gnome3 users. Why is it so hard to understand, most of us don't even want to be aware of the UI, it should 'just work'.

Isn't that why we invented writing? I regularly take lessons from dead people in that temple to collective conciousness we call the library.

specifically, when two devices find one another, what is the point?

This has to be the ultimate Slashdot question. On other fora, I think devices just follow their...um...BIOS.