Fedora 15 with the latest updates and official NVIDIA drivers, its been my main environment for the last week with very little problem (especially considering FC15 is still Alpha).
My main gripe is the lack of preferences in the GUI, but a little google + cl fixes that.
From a young developers perspective Philly was fun. Lots of events, low living costs for a decent city and tons of web work. I was able to easily freelance with few contacts.
A previous co-worker on the other hand (usually working in the very top of a company) found Philly to be difficult as he had too much experience in high positions and expected to find it again and again with a cushy salary too boot. Its been over a year and I still think he is out of work.
Pharma while soul crushing will get you the fast cash you need, is abundant and should be easy enough to get into.
Nothing has helped me more with Android than a great Java book (Effective Java.) The rest you can read in the official Android docs or rip apart examples if thats your style. So far this looks like a nice marriage of all of those parts.
I like basic editors so on a Mac TextMate and Linux gEdit.
For quick Java and C tests and all Android work I use Eclipse which is available on all major platforms of course. IntelliJ is on my list to try out but I have no real reason just yet
Smoothing and proper metrics were default in 9.04+ and before that accessible via a GUI interface for manual tweaking. Replacing FreeSans with a well tailored family is just finishing the job (so you don't have to.)
I hear ya, but these things are just as important. Poor user experience is a bug and graphical tweaks and updating the indicator platform was much needed. I will admit windicators, multitouch and head tracking parallax should take low priority, but most of their designers wouldn't be fixing driver bugs if they weren't turning up the pretty.
With the latest stable 10.04 I have had very little trouble if any. Granted I am on a ThinkPad. When I ran it on a Macbook Pro and its slightly tweaked "standard" hardware it ran like crap and took a lot of coaxing to get up and running until I just gave up and got the right hardware for the job.
Hands down the best file syncing and backup experience. I use it on my Ubuntu netbook and laptop, iMac, Macbook Pro, a Windows 7 VM on occasion and my Android. Sometimes there are weird conflicts between all these different devices (maybe client software/OS bugs?) but I trust it with my life.
99% of all my files are in Dropbox (minus large archived projects and videos for space/bandwidths sake) and I do a monthly dump to an external.
How about those who can't afford it? It's also truly a personal and private choice. I don't judge you because you are insane about getting shot up, thats your choice. Mine is to question face value headlines, see what's happening and make an educated choice.
Furthermore vaccinating the most of the world is not going to happen until they are made strictly for all people and not for profit. Patenting medicine and vaccines and distributing it to only those who are "deserving" sound a bit off no?
I'm sympathetic to poor people not paying for expensive vaccines, and if that were the only problem, it'd be at least partly the fault of our public policy for not doing something about it (a lot of the benefit of vaccination goes to society as a whole rather than solely to the person being vaccinated, making it a fairly classic case for public subsidy). And that probably is a pretty big part of the story in the developing world.
In the U.S., though, we do actually have quite a lot of free vaccination clinics, and many people have health insurance that covers vaccinations. It's possible there aren't enough free clinics, and if studies show that a large % of people not being vaccinated are skipping it due to the expense, then that's something we should work on. But I don't believe that's currently the case--- a large proportion of the people skipping vaccinations could have had them completely paid for, either by their health-insurance plan, or via free vaccination clinics, but deliberately chose not to get them.
edit: Actually, are there good studies on the primary causes of non-vaccination? It'd be interesting to see estimates of the numbers of people who fall into categories like: 1) fear of autism/etc.; 2) fear of allergic reactions; 3) religious objections; 4) too expensive; 5) too inconvenient / never got around to it.
Childhood immunization uptake exceeds 95% in many countries. So vaccinating "most of the world" is clearly do-able. In the situation where uptake is low, the issues revolve around supply, access and parental ignorance, and not the cost of the vaccine.
I honestly feel as a matter of public health it should be free. If it was someone I saw every day who alleged this reason, I'd take them to the doctor right then for the shots, paying for it.
My main gripe is the lack of preferences in the GUI, but a little google + cl fixes that.