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Ha ha ha. And the inevitable mod down for speaking the truth. I almost had to check the URL bar to see if I was on engadget. What a joke site.

Golden age trilogy is bar none the best hard sci-fi far future trans human sci-fi there is. Highly recommended.

Wow. The great and storied "hacker news". I came here expecting great discussions on the technology of hmd's and am instead subjected to yet another chapter in the Google soap opera internet hate a thon. What a fucking joke.

The main difference is Debian isn't quite as user friendly out of the box. Sudo isn't set up for you for example so you'll be in for a surprise the first time you try to use it. Also, Debian isn't quite as pretty. The fonts aren't as good and the desktop looks quite a bit dated. The upside is Debian at least for me is much faster. I don't know what Canonical did to Ubuntu 11.10 but it drug for me. Also, Debian doesn't crash at all at least for me whereas Ubuntu did suffer some random instability.

That having been said, I like the idea of Ubuntu. I like the fact that they are trying to move the Linux desktop forward and I will happily return if they can get Unity straightened out. As it stands though, I'm a content Debian user for the forseeable future.

Comparing a web "sync" to an integrated solution like Dropbox? Tell me another one.

Episode 32432432 in the pissing match between MS and anybody who dares make a dollar in the computing industry. Yawn

You SERIOUSLY need to remove the tinfoil hat. You and the guy you're conversing with are cracking me up.

MS keeps SQL server windows only primarily because they want people to buy Windows. Duh. How is that anti-MS? Naive much?

"75%...drivers...filesystems...it does seem to be getting quite bloaty"

Does the code that supports those drivers and filesystems slow the overall system down in any way? If not, how can you call it "bloat"? Bloat in this context generally means additional code that is out of proportion to its functionality while also using a disproportionate amount of memory and diskspace. There is legitimate bloat in the linux kernel but suggesting that that has anything to do with the variety of hardware support is to misunderstand the meaning of the word. Oh yeah, YMMV

I find compositing to be quite useful on a few scenarios. Hovering the icon over a program in the task bar makes it simple to quickly monitor the operation of a terminal app or what have you whilst reading something in a web browser without having to go through the trouble of rearranging your windows around. Also, the semi transparency while moving windows makes it easy to just click on the title bar and see what's going on in a window underneath. I love the scale effect where you can mouse to a corner and all of your windows show ike on Mac osx. That is a boon for window management when you have a lot going on. I also like the ease of compiz's zoom effect. Makes "full screening" flash videos much less of a hassle. Its the little things like all of these that add up to a great user experience for me from compiz.

You have no idea what you are talking about.

So you're saying you're a "developer" that was using iOS, planned on going to the Nexus and then you just decided to go to windows phone after playing with a Focus S and now after getting your new phone suddenly you're going to start developing for windows phone. Sure.

"I don't know why there complaints about the marketplace."

Er, because there are 10 times the apps in their competitors' marketplaces. Yes, wp7 has the low hanging fruit covered but there are many apps that cater to niches that are not present. It's like Excel vs OO Calc. Yes, Calc can do most of what Excel can do but it is the remaining few percent of functionality that makes a non-solution for people. And it is a different subset for different people. Just like with wp7 vs Android and iOS. What is so hard to understand here?

"much of [iOS] is dreadfully ugly"

This is complete unadulterated bs. Thank you for a good laugh today.

"Everything I want to do is within one click or one swipe"

I have an HD7. What I quoted from you is not true.

The comparisons are very appropriate.

Why would they rip off an OS with essentially no market share and dropping fast from there. Windows Phone tiles are just widgets under a different name.

"but the only place with a bigger stick up its collective ass is Wikipedia."

Slashdot

It is not the government's job to train a generation of school children to slavishly conform to a particular proprietary product. Teach them how to operate a word processor not how to click the icons in Word which, by the way, will be in a new place by the time they get of age to actually get a job.