The problem is that you assume he read the summary. With the "$scientists" stuck in there, this guy clearly read "vaccine" in the title and rushed in to make his screed against Big Pharma.

I thought GNOME already had a "classic" experience extension - called MATE. (Or Cinnamon. YMMV)

From TFA:

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Not fixed, just hasn't been broken yet for a steadily decreasing number of people.

Getting enough cell phone bandwidth when surrounded by several tens of thousands of other cell phones in the stadium.

As one of those commenters talking about Android getting the most market share, I don't necessarily want an Android monopoly. All I really want is Android phone and tablet app and accessory support that matches iOS support and death to mandatory walled gardens and locked phones. Device support is pretty self explanatory, but we've already seen Microsoft go from a relatively open desktop OS to a locked down phone/tablet OS in order to try and copy the closed Apple model, and I think that is bad for the future of computing. Start people in a walled garden if you want, but give them the ability to opt-out and unlock their phones if they so choose. The more Android marginalizes iOS, the less likely it is that the next challengers follow that closed pattern.

That being said, if Android does manage to get an OS monopoly, I think the open source nature of the Android project will keep it from copying many of the lock-in problems that made the Windows monopoly so bad.

Yeah, but this is yet another data point along with Android-overtaking-iOS timeline. First it was all Android phones outselling iPhones for a quarter. Then it was all Android phones overtaking iPhones in market share, but the iPhone massively outselling any single Android phone. Now one Android phone outsold the iPhone for one quarter, if only for the worst iPhone quarter, but I'm expecting it to become more of a regular occurrence in the future.

Although a lot of people will be dismissing these numbers as irrelevant outside of fanboi dick-measuring, they do matter. The Android phone app ecosystem was far behind the iOS phone ecosystem until the Android marketshare started too large for it to be ignored, and now they are effectively equivalent. However, when it comes to physical phone accessories, iPhones are massively more supported then any Android phone (at least as far as I can tell from personal observation). Once certain Android phones start selling in numbers comperable to iPhones, the accessory support will follow.

Also, now that Google has started focusing on tablets, I'm expecting a similar pattern on those in the future.

I wouldn't say that that they won via data mining, they still appealed to people with ideas to win the election. They just used data mining to determine the best way to present the ideas in order to appeal to the most people more efficiently.

Yes. If this election season has taught us anything, it's the it is way easier to get rich if you start with a lot of money.

FWIW two others that don't treat users like morons are Cinnamon and MATE. I prefer Cinnamon, but if you're running from Gnome either would probably be an easier adjustment than KDE. I just wanted to point out donation options for people who'd like to keep a Gnome 2-like UI.

As a curious Cyanogenmod user, does anyone know specifically what builds are affected? I'm assuming all of the nightly builds since this was committed include it, but since I now stick to the M-builds I'm wondering if it's in those too.

If so that means at the 32GB level you'll have to pay $180 more to get an iPad mini with worse resolution.

They do it because they know the masses will pay that much for it and insist it's better.

Launching Tasks
Sharing Wifi

Just a couple I use off the top of my head

I'll be looking forward to the updates soon. I switched to Linux Mint once Cinnamon came out, it seemed less buggy than Mate while still giving me the use of Gnome utilities that I preferred over XFCE. Cinnamon was feature-limited at first, but Linux Mint + Cinnamon still had most of the Ubuntu goodness combined with a UI direction that made sense. Now that more features are getting added to Cinnamon with every new version, I'm glad I made the switch. My only real question is how to best move my Nautilus scripts over to Nemo.

In addition to all of the other instances mentioned above, I've been using Alarm Clock Xtreme with shake to turn off on my Android phone (actually two phones, using on both a Droid Incredible and Galaxy Nexux) for a couple years now. This patent is only original if you consider whacking the phone significantly innovative over shaking, flipping, or any other motion based ways to silence phones that have been around for years.

We gained a bunch of customers by advertising a data-hogging feature of our phones, but then the customers had the audacity to want to use that feature! How dare they!