Not creating Unity was the ideal solution from the beginning.

Creating your own display stack and maintaining it forever is an unaffordable choice.
Joining forces with Gnome was a good idea at the time, but if I recall correctly, there were disagreements, and agreeing on things isn't easy.

Interesting you mention you like GNUstep/Windowmaker. I used it years ago, and ever since have made my desktop act like it where possible.

I use a minimal interface such as gnome 2 - (gnome-session-flashback on ubuntu these days).
Bind alt-1 through alt-9 to go to desktops 1 through 9
Bind alt-m to minimize window

Maybe I'm missing more parts of GNUstep/windowmaker, but it's quick enough to switch between workspaces that all other desktops have bothered me since using it.

Doogie Howser! None of those TV shows were as big Doogie Howser!!

Really - I looked it up.

And the data was confusing, but the show wasn't bad - it even had a computer in it.

Is that just when Gollum pronounces it?

Just because you don't like 3D doesn't mean it should be "ditched".
I don't go to many movies, but when I do, I look for good movies that are in 3D.
If a movie has no plot, it doesn't matter if it's in 2D or 3D.

I'm not going to claim the numbers for this are high, but here's what I do:

Plug monitor cable from linux (or windows or you're evil) into LCD TV.
Plug sound cable into TV
Watch computer on TV

Our home computer is a linux desktop that has two video outputs. We can use both the monitor and TV, but one mouse for now. We plug/unplug the audio wire (that goes to the TV) from the desktop speaker to change where the audio goes -- I suppose that part could be better.
It's not hard (same 2 cables) to connect laptops to the TV.

You can only understand this if your id is greater than 800000. :)

please please please please please.

I'm not holding my breath for that (anymore), but it would be nice.

Nice one :) -- I liked that movie

You should've seen R.O.B. the robot -- I still don't know how it was supposed to work (a friend had one), but it did have buttons of some kind.

Good thing stock strategies aren't traded like stocks, or all the stock strategy bots would be confused by this year late slashdot article about stock strategy (!)

Originally not many people could use facebook -- it was only for people in college. There's no reason why Shatner's site couldn't include more people later, but honestly, (and as other people have already said) I don't think they needs to include everyone to be successful.

What? Pictures of space are always cool!

If you're paying 29.99% credit card interest like I am, NPV is pretty high.

(Disclaimer: I am not a financial expert)

Always?!?!!! You obviously haven't seen Hackers... or Jurassic Park!

You have a good point -- graphics card choices in laptops are limited. But, instead of using windows, or linux without 3D, I just no longer consider laptops with ATI cards (which leaves nvidia choices for now).
I feel your pain though -- I had a T43 with X300 card for a couple years, and that experience is unfortunately burned in my memory.