This is really down to familiarity. You are used to considering "0-100" the normal range. That's not even true for everyone .. for instance, where I live, the range of 30-120 F is much more useful. But it doesn't really matter, because once you've used it for a while, you will naturally learn the temperature range that you experience. Same with Celcius. Note that essentially everyone who grew up in countries that use Celcius prefer it.

The list of actual benefits and drawbacks for either scale are pretty minor -- ease of conversion to K is one, and consistency with other countries is another. I can't think of any others, and honestly neither of those outweighs the cost of trying to switch.

Didn't you read the summary? It makes Facebook three to four times more usable. Which, given the specificity of that statement, we can assume to be scientifically measured and verified.

Hm. Let's see what Ubuntu says:

The purpose of Mir is to support their "converged interface." They are making design decisions of the display server based on the design requirements of their mobile interface, ignoring the existing desktop interface.

FTFA:

So they're letting design decisions for their phone interface dictate how they implement their desktop interface. It's the same stupidity that the Gnome developers are engaged in. A desktop is not "just another kind of phone," and if you treat your primary users as second-class citizens, they'll all jump ship.

Wouldn't a well-designed website make use of the available space, so that the user who likes multiple narrow windows can have that, while the user who prefers to fill the screen with the website that they're reading can do so too?

It's even worse if you try to read the comments on a story. You know, the only reason why people actually come to slashdot rather than other websites with editors that actually make some effort. At 1920x1080, the comments take up a maximum of about 575 pixels -- less if they're nested. That means that more than 70% of the screen is wasted whitespace.

I have a large screen for a reason. If I want to read text in a narrow column, I'll resize the browser window.

All the news stories have been about "which political party should we blame."

You want to know who to blame? All of the twits who have been cheering on "their team" while this has been going on, instead of pressuring their representatives to do their job. The members of Congress -- in both major parties -- feel no pressure to actually resolve the situation, because they've managed to trick their supporters in the media into giving them a pass while they wasted time instead of actually trying to come up with a solution that has a chance of working.

You know, if you're going to resort to bald-faced lying by misrepresenting what someone says (hint: that comment was not about "Latinos" in general), you probably shouldn't link to a source that includes the quote in context.

Here's the easier way of finding out where someone's driven: get the government to go ask the insurance company for their records. Do you actually believe them when they say that they're not keeping track of your location?

Because a phobia is a mental disorder, and people like to take the easy way out of an argument by claiming that their opponent is wrong because "their brain is broken." It's easier than rational debate.

Head over to sourceforge and start clicking on random projects. Half-finished projects with minimal practical use are common. The only real difference is that the Hurd gets lots of press despite its state.

Because there's no strong need for it to be completed. It's progressing the same way as any number of hobbyist open source projects.

I would tell you that it doesn't matter if a Republican president gets elected, he still has to implement the laws that Congress has passed.

Although if the current presidency is any indication, I guess that's no longer true.

Although to my understanding that's true today, he was largely responsible for several important projects, including emacs and gcc. The GNU project never achieved all of its goals, but his software contributions are integral to the free Unix(-like) operating systems of today.

With an attitude like that, you'll never be able to buy any votes.