What has kept me coming back to Ubuntu, like Peter, is the way it doesn't interrogate you when you want to do some normal thing. You see, so often in WIndows, even 7, I feel like options are being forced on me, options that so often don't even apply to me. I feel like I've wasted minutes going through dialog after dialog sometimes. In Ubuntu, many things are intentionally smoothed out.

Or, I *thought* it was Ubuntu (or maybe GNOME, nautilus/eazel, name a component of Ubuntu).

Then I started helping people with their Macs, and I noticed that every instance of this "get the heck out of the way and let 80% of the people who don't apply to this special situation get to work" value being implemented was copied straight from Apple.

Apple has given Ubuntu, Android, and every other Linux, something a helluvalot better than Windows to copy, as far as user experience. I think Ubuntu's selling point is that you can have something with fewer headaches, a little more like a Mac and less like Windows, but without the tax.

Poetic Justice?

Microsoft forced their "Office Open XML" file format standard through ISO certification in order to get a tick mark, even though it includes specs like "the functionality here has to match that of MS Word 4" without any description of what that means, and is still 6000 pages. Even though it's a 'standard' no company could make a product compliant with OOXML except Microsoft itself. Further, there's no doubt in my mind that "Office Open XML" was named to dupe national ISO panels members into thinking of ODF or "Open Office XML".

Not enough Poetic Justice.

@anderlan I should add, this is a good deal as an extra server, like in place of having to configure a virtual server. It doesn't take much power, so you don't have to think about the $10 extra on your power bill, like a regular 60Watt box would add. However, it's probably limited to only ever be a server--it probably doesn't have enough performance to work as a flash-playing workstation.

I wonder if you can disable the main keyboard so you can use it with a kvm without having to worry about stray keystrokes from the main unit laying on its side or something. This is a good deal, except for the builtin keyboard gimick (depending on whether or not the "Xcore86" actually performs up to a P-M at same clock).

CNBC's Kudlow said that the EPA ruling is questionably legal and the courts may say so. I was surprised by that. I like him but I suppose being against saving energy goes with being old (they remember when energy was really scarce and don't want to go back).

Anyway, point is, the EPA is perfectly safe in what they said. The Supreme Court already addressed this in Bunch of States v. Bush's EPA when the states wanted to do their own regs. The Supremes came down on the side of rational reality, hard data, and math. Of course.

The EPA's move is watertight and a brilliant political chess move.

@ Similarities:
Android and ChromeOS are both Linux, they both run on x86 and ARM. As they have the same kernel, if there is a driver for one, it'll work on the other.

The only differences:
ChromeOS has the lightest-possible-weight windowing system, only meant to run Chrome. Android has Dalvik.

Takeaway:
ChromeOS says "go web developers!" Android by its existence says "Make me apps!" and owners think "I want some apps!" Is it stupid that ChromeOS doesn't have Dalvik? Yes. Third parties will put it in, but it's still stupid that Google won't.

You really mean "minus the whole *non-zero* respawn thing."

I can't be sure that a "Linux" store would have hotter employees, but I know they'd be more interesting.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that if you consider yourself geek enough to install an ssh server on your iphone and you don't change the root password, YOU DESERVE TO BE RICKROLLED (at the very least).

Does the photo mean: A droid on the tether is worth 2 on this plan?