The reason no factories in the US is simple. CEOs want more money, so they outsource to slave labor then petition Congress to get rid if tarrifs. Like when Bush 'protected the American steel worker' by putting a tarrif on imported steel so America could compete. The CEOs of the steel industry's profit margin was protected, but the companies that consumed the steel, including a lot of telecomm, simply moved to another country. Jobs everywhere were lost in the ripple effect. Taxes/Tariffs on rare, dangerous, or polluting substances is fine, but tarrifs on all the JUNK coming in from China should be mandatory. Its not poorly engineered ... it lasts 1 day after warranty expires and that's it ... perfect for company profits. Why is it that a brand new product won't last 13 months, but the shit you bought 13 years ago still works fine? But thanks to the new TPP, we'll never see tariffs on the crap made by slave labor and our middle class will disappear until we're all corporate slaves!

And once this "fake meat" is marketed and made cheap enough, sales of meat drop and environmental pressure and lack of sales (plus pressure from corporations that want an alternative product that takes less work and less money to produce with a shorter return on investment) drive its price higher and higher until only the rich get real meat, and the rest of us get the fake stuff, which doesn't REALLY taste like real meat, but the next generation will never know the difference anyway. Too bad the protein content isn't as high, but we can just eat more of it, get fatter, and shit more, and probably suffer mild forms of brain damage. Meanwhile, we'll thank corporations for making food more affordable for the masses, because .. look how expensive meat got! And one day, somebody finds that the latest fake meat is made from something else ... someone solved the problem of not having enough graveyard space ... Soylent Green ... it even has a nice "bio friendly" name.

Copyright expression is via EXIF data. Thats done. DRM means using a shitty encryption so that breaking that copyright is felony (DMCA again). Corportations want people charged with a felony when they see their picture on another site.

Load into Gimp, export as jpeg ... done. If you can load it and view it, you can bypass the DRM. At worst case, only a DRM-enabled browser can view it and I just take a screenshot and then crop it. Mildly annoying, but still easy enough that a child could do it. On the other hand, we still don't have transparency in JPG, so I have to use a much more cumbersome approach (than bypassing DRM would be) to make semi-transparent regions in a JPG (basically PNG transparency with JPG compression by compositing the alpha channel client-side in the browser).

My Gnome desktop notifies me about all those things without Chrome. Seamless integration for chats, calendars, contacts ... I don't even open the equivalent Gnome apps, but since I clicked the "OK to Sync" buttons for these items when I gave it my Google Account info, they integrate. I use the desktop search to find contacts - never saw it import. I just know my phone and desktop are in perfect sync. Windows users will have to run about 100 hacks and spyware-laden tools to get anything similar. And as a Web Developer, switching browsers makes no sense. Don't you mean that you have 3 different browsers open at once? Why close it? Oh yeah, Microsoft memory management blows. If my browser did notifications, it would just duplicate stuff, and I'd have to remember to have that particular tab open. Doesn't sound very user friendly to me.

This is about 3.18 and you are just now commenting on 3.0 design features? If you look in the design documentation and actually READ it, there are good reasons for it. I initially disagreed and installed an extension that gives you the old cascading menu. It is there if you want it, and many other Tweaks. However, I can launch apps faster from the overview or search feature. It actually IS more user friendly. Try typing the name of one of your phone's contacts in the search bar (you don't have to click it, just type), or type in some math! Gnome syncs your calendars and contact's for you (if you allow it) and unlike some other desktops, does not feed your searches to Amazon or other third parties. And I HATE Windows 8. While supporting tablets may be a hard focus, Gnome does not do so at the expense of desktops. Windows 8 should take lessons from Gnome. The Gnome team has done an excellent job in UI design. Yes, its different and it takes a minute when you are used to something else, but if we keep using the same UI paradigms over and over then you can't ever innovate.

Often those trucks have suspensions that are not stock or at least modified from stock.

Linux isn't free beer. The only way this stuff improves is people donating time or money. If everyone that complained about Gimp donated the price of Photoshop to the developers, we would be well past 2.8 a long time ago

Agreed. Copy/Paste is not programming and html doesn't really with algorithms or variables. IMHO, its not really programming. Algebra came easy to me cause I could program computers before kindergarten (just really simple BASIC stuff, loops, conditions, but I knew what a variable was). Real coding is math

Ah yes, Google refuses to censor the Internet in the interest of corporate america. Let's devalue their stock for not being Big Brother for us. WTF?!

You could try clustered computing. But that requires specific application support in order to be efficient. There are certain overheads. As for playing games on your tablet, you could probably hack that up. Steam is working on some technology to do similar things. You basically just run the game on one device and then compress the pixels and shove them out the network card - not much different than streaming a movie. As for your old work laptop ... just use the new one! You could repurpose it by loading Linux and a desktop designed for older machines such as XFCE. Basically, you aren't going to be able to just share everything. There are barriers to scalability and connectivity.

1 VST is commercial. You can't blame Linux because some other company isn't making their software available for it. 2 You can't ask for pro-audio and then say that you don't want jack. Jack is not only your best option on Linux, but its good enough for Apple! They use jack, too. You are comparing with Windows, and thats the worst option. Windows latency is way higher than Apple or Windows. Hardware support on Linux is great. I plug it in, it works. Windows on the other hand is a driver nightmare! You try downloading drivers and get viruses instead. I shouldn't even have to download the crap - it should find its own drivers, but that has NEVER worked for me. Sabayon took about 30 mins to install on my laptop and autodetects everything. Windows was an all day thing having to transfer drivers via USB off my phone because Windows didn't detect the network card (not wired or wireless). Still don't have the accelerometer driver under Windows, but its detected fine on Linux.

Darwin shares no history with FreeBSD nor was it a fork. It is a modification to an MIT microkernel called Mach (same kernel GNU Hurd was slated to use). Normally, the unix compatible services were to be excluded from the kernel. Mach only does resource management and IPC. For performance reasons, they included a BSD-compatible "server" into the kernel, making it a monolithic kernel. This design was then included as the kernel used by NeXT. OSX is just a bloated, prettier version of NeXT Step. Its NOT BSD!

LVM would have been best, but since its too late for that, you can add more swap using a file. Using a file is not best because you need to go through the filesystem layer and then the device layer, rather than just ignoring the filesystem. It has nothing to do with contiguous files. You can definately swap to a file as easily as as a device, and you can tell your system to swap to your existing swap device first before using the file (for speed). If you had two swap partitions on different physical drives, you would give them the same priority number so that Linux writes to them in parallel (like RAID). See man pages for swapon and fstab.

I don't agree. http://kxstudio.sourceforge.ne...