Don't want people to know you are a pervert? There's an add-on for that.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8631

When ads stop being obnoxious people won't see the need to block them anymore.

I generally run without an ad-blocker, but when I do I specifically allow ads like those from google. It's hard to begrudge a site a small, unobtrusive column of text for ads. Run flashy, bandwidth-heavy ads though, and I'll likely only see the first one before I block them all from your site. :P

Paint.net instead of the GIMP?
Epic fail.

It's no longer 2002. Install Ubuntu and you will NEVER have to use the CLI. That's right. NEVER. I like it because you can do some neat things with it, but then I use CLI in windows too. But is it required for normal operation? No. It's not.

Do I think Linux is retard-friendly on the level of windows? No. But It's come a long way. And the old CLI complaint has officially died. Buried next to driver support qq and native-app woes.

Don't like? Fine. But leave your FUD at the door please.

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19990307&mode=classic

I feel like such a nerd for posting such a web comic from 10 years ago....

I'd be a lot happier if the government took back the last mile and opened it up to more third party distributors. I think the real problem is the pseudo-monopolies on broadband services.

The sun is powered by nuclear fusion in it's core.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/sun2.htm

I had to use it for my college spanish course recently. It was a pretty shitty website too, and it only worked with ie. Made me very sad. :(

I don't think this is to make full fledged distros like ubuntu and fedora so much as software appliances like the gparted live cd.

"A software appliance is a full application stack containing the operating system, the application software and any required dependencies, and the configuration and data files required to operate. Everything is preinstalled, preintegrated, and ready to run.
You can think of this like an extreme form of static linking."

Although an easy way to make a full custom distro would be hot.

I miss os/2. Warp 4 was great.

People keep saying this, but any time that I've used Bing I've spent more time sifting through results, although I could just be more accustomed to entering queries for google after a decade or so.

And while less market share definitely != inferior technology *cough*linux*cough, in this case Google's vastly superior data-pool gives them a huge advantage in developing efficient search algorithms. They just have a shitton more data to work with to figure out how to give people what they are looking for.

Count Zero, IMO