I could not agree with your comment more. I've been using elementary since its original beta and absolutely love it. It not only looks great, but it is laid out to be usable. My core i5 dell with elementary luna is my go-to coding machine. This new release should make it even better. Having used quite a few distros over the last 12+ years (RHL, gentoo, mandrake, Suse, ubuntu, fedora, debian, cent, *BSD), I can say this is by far the best thought-out release I have ever used. Seriously, give it a try.

Re: "looks like OSX so who cares" comments:
The only feature this distro really shares with OSX is the dock, which BTW, can literally be installed on an OS now. The animations are crisp, memory footprint is light, and it has enough unique usability feature to make it transcend the "OSX-clone" status.

The big leap hear was observing the interaction of *only* 2 spins, not the physics. Just to be clear, this study has confirmed that standard spin physics work on the atomic scale. Confirming these basic laws for a system of two atoms is important because it can expose holes in our understanding of physics that came from only observing an ensemble of spins and not single spin states. Just a few notes: Derivations of quantum mechanical interactions come from basic formulas of classical mechanics, but strictly speak the physics in this paper are *NOT* Newtonian. They are talking about the energy of the interaction, not the force. For two electron dipoles interacting in space, the basic formulation come from F = (q1*q2)/(d^4). Because energy is force x distance: E = F*d = (q1*q2)/d^-3. This observation *is* expected since these physics govern basic magnetic resonance principles. The leap here comes from the fact that magnetic resonance experiments deal with LOTS of atoms, not two.

I approve of the code name of this release

wonder how the poster got an idea for the name

The previous was a troll comment? I was just sharing an opinion civilly and suggesting that people take some (not all) responsibility for their lack of privacy. The intention was not to incite hatred, just to engage in debate. Can I get a meta-moderator? geeze

Yeah its underhanded and shitty, but if we keep playing by the same rules, awe shouldn’t be surprised when nations life china surpass us. I’m not saying I agree with their practices at all, but this is a new reality that needs to be accepted and overcome.

Dishonesty has become a real problem in science. Some recent cases (Judy Mikovits, Luk Van Parijs, and Dipak K. Das (aka the red-wine researcher)) reveal some serious misconduct from high profile researchers. Certainly, part of this is due to the increased pressure on scientific researchers. The other part of this is generational. Cheating and misconduct are certainly more prevalent .in younger generations (or perhaps its always been this way and they are just not quite as clever).

Looks like its time for someone to fork these projects!

Well, if these games can get younger people interested in the concepts of programming, I'm all for it. I'm not a fan of most online games, but I have to say this is really cool. I think more games should provide an environment to explore programming (optionally of course)

I'd have to agree with you. People need to take some (most) of the blame for this. No one forced your to join Facebook, twitter, flickr, etc. and you had to know that these were not services being sold with the guise of anonymity. Yes companies are using tracking cookies and algorithmic hocus-pocus to profile your habits, but these can be circumvented with little effort. If you want to share everything, fine. But your info is now essentially public.

It just seems like they have set up new ground rules by which an army of lawyers will translate into a high-cost-of-entry market (jn a market with an already bloated cost of entry). I would not hold my breath in hoping that corporations will change their practices...