"They fill a niche for those that want to read a long-form ad-free article"

Uh, have you seen magazines these days? You've got half a column of story/review, and the rest of the two pages ends up being advertisements.

"Must say that even though I work in IT I don't like the major reliance on screens for everything"

As opposed to what, beaming it directly to your brain?

"so there isn't even an easy way to seek to the continuation."

So you're incapable of counting the sides of pages, is that what you're saying?

" Wikipedia is 100x larger and with web links allows people to more successfully research far more topics than Britannica ever could."

All paid off, most likely, with maybe 2% of paid contributors actually disclosing their affiliation.

DirtCheapDrives.com baby. Fuck yea CS was one thing I looked forward to 18 years ago.

Good unchangeable hard-copy print publications with typically far more reliable information. Pretty damned good vs the internet for a leisurely search if you keep shit organized.

Had the same issue with Jaton during that generation of nVidia GPUs.

Pretty much made me only go with ATi/AMD from now on.

"I still buy physical DVDs - primarily because they are passively archival and don't depend on me a) having connectivity or b) having my server nearby."

Uh, yes, you do You're a fool.

"Scientists from the University of Eastern Finland have found that people who have high levels of cynical distrust are three times as likely to suffer from dementia in later life, than those who have more faith in other people."

In other words, they're trying to pin the blame on someone other than dealing with the same issues they have in the first place like any other country on it's way to first-world status.

Yea, good fucking luck, assholes.

You can't do standards, you can't do real science, all Microsoft can do is pollute the code stream.

No fucking thanks. I'll stick with ASM and non-Visual C++.

Adam Steltzner, the lead engineer on the NASA JPL's Curiosity rover mission, believes that to send humans to distant planets, we may need to do one of two things: look for ways to game space-time—traveling through wormholes and whatnot—or rethink the fundamental idea of 'ourselves

If he's that confident, then he should send himself first. If not, then he should shut the fuck up.

Not including the power used by DRM enforcement
Not including the power used to burn a disc, let alone harvest the material to make it
Not including the power of the people involved in making such a thing happen
Not including the money used to lobby Congress
Not including the money used to lobby the EPA
Not including the money to lobby the FCC

If you're this fucking stupid, you deserve what you get.

"Except Wal-Mart's prices are damn low over time."

Funny you should say that. More than half of their stuff instore can be bought for cheaper at smaller places, quite often.

I saw a guitar, clearly labeled as $129 on the package (First Act guitar) and Wal-Mart had a $169 price tag on it.

No, the $129 was NOT labeled as MSRP.

Well, if the PULP lawyers see this, why the fuck aren't they filing suit for the American People?

I was just joking, partially. The same vulnerability that allows repeated posts also happens to be linked to the username registration filters. The first L in his name is actually a capital i.