Is asking how likely people think various futurist technologies are going to be, with in a 50/500/5000/eventually/never timescale. The tecnologies are things like self driving cars, flying cars, fusion, off-world colonies, FTL.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2ZC6RD9
His first write up was from asking physics students vs faculty what was likely to be possible. http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/10/futuristic-physicists/
Though he's now looking for a larger swath of the population. http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/11/survey-the-people/
]]>I did try 12.10 with kubuntu and with some fiddling it does look like its possible to make the UI less ugly than the default KDE UI.
I have a newer computer so tried 12.10 and then decided to remove the crapware. I had remove unity-lens-shopping, and then use dconf-editor to remove all the amazon domains from com.canonical.unity.webapps preauthorized-domains.
After stripping canonicals amazon integration, I saw the press release about Ubuntu running on the nexus 7. I then found myself thinking ubuntu would be better than android, if only it included a way to buy ebooks on it.
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