Wells Fargo most likely would only make money on the origination and other fees associated with the refi. The vast majority of mortgages are sold to the Fannie/freddies and Wells Fargo doesn't make a dime off the interest. So it would definitely benefit them to do the refi.

Does Mir's existence have anything to do with Wayland's slow development? I read (source unavailable, sorry) that Canonical grew frustrated with Wayland's crawl and decided to make their own.

Again, not sure if this is the case.

When Mir was initiated, Wayland's future was not as clear and little was working at all. Instead of talking, Canonical went and just did what they thought is the right way to do it.

You can consider this good (more doing, less talking) or bad (not invented here syndrom).

Actually GNOME shell has a Wayland compositor for around as much time as when Mir was initiated (not when it was announced). The future was also clear. Whatever reason Canonical had to start Mir, it is not related to Wayland.

Wayland developers had to fix all kinds of things elsewere. The development is not slow. One of the Mir developers attributed the quicker speed of Mir to the work that the Wayland developers did. Further, a lot of stuff in Mir is copied/taken from Wayland. E.g. XWayland -> XMir. They did hire the XWayland developer AFAIC. Wayland developers want to release a good version, apparently for XWayland to work well they need some kernel changes or something. XMir is reported to have issues (check e.g. comments on LWN.net, two mouse pointers, etc)

Two mouse pointer is not an issue. It was put there by the developers to quickly determine whether they were running X or XMir.

Wayland requires stuff like KDE (QT) and Gnome (GTK) to be ported to it to be useful.. or to bring their own stuff.

Qt5 now works on Wayland - and KDE has a release coming up (the dev code already works on Wayland)

When Mir was announed, Wayland was already past 1.0. About 60% of the GNOME applications currently run under Wayland. See https://live.gnome.org/Wayland/Applications.

Note that Mir requires the exact same stuff. Just that nobody posted a patch to add such support. It is all distro specific.

Not going to be integrated in upstream KDE in any case, see [1]. I don't think Gnome devs are particularly sanguine about it either.

As for me, I'm waiting for a hypothetical WLMonad.

1: http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/05/mir-in-kubuntu...

mythical man-month.

Is this a secure boot / Microsoft key issue?

Could be cool; I don't know programming but I would love to be able to make some finance apps that no one has seemed to produce thus far.

How else will I play LetterPress with my brother?

I call BS.

How long do we give Google the benefit of the doubt? How long do we let them off the hook? This isn't their first phone or device launch.

They know how to sell product by now.

This. My first thought was that CM was no longer available. I did not think anything of the domain.

Same. I have a pending Google Wallet charge on my CC. Hopefully it went through.

I've heard of Australian/European buyers who had this issue and received shipping information a few hours later. Hopefully we're in this same boat.

I think this device is solid.

I'll probably end up waiting until some consumer reviews are out, but I can't see why this isn't a perfect albeit perhaps niche device for me.

I don't want a contract phone, I could care less about LTE and pure Android seems like a solid OS. I'll probably give this guy a go on either Straight Talk or Solavei. Worst case scenario is that I end up not liking it and using an upgrade on an iPhone.

Cinnamon is great. I'm actually using a gnome classic DE right now, but i suspect that I'll switch to cinnamon when it becomes more polished.