I defriended someone for movie reviews. Not because they were filled with spoilers. Because they were awful. I take movies and film making very seriously (even the low/no budget films). I used to work around low budget films, I have friends that still do.

She would say stuff about how indy or arthouse films were hard to follow so she turned them off 10 minutes into them (or just avoided them), but in the next post would praise whatever summer blockbuster she saw that day. She actually said several of my favorite acclaimed films were stupid but then posted a raving review of how Transformers 2 was the best movie she ever saw.

I thought she wasn't serious at first, but after several of months of seeing it, I realized she was the reason Micheal Bay keeps getting to make more movies. I didn't want to be a witness to that.

I was there when iPod launched, listening to my MP3 player. The fact that I already had the technology rather nulls the "innovation" of creating it. The iPod made it easier and had more capacity you say? This would be "Shinola". They put a polish on a pre-existing idea. Same goes for the iPhone. Same goes for iPad. These are refinements of an idea, not the creation of a new one.

As for Napster... from a user perspective, it was just an app that allowed them to find the music they wanted. Underlying technology didn't matter. Legality did not matter. The methods are not central to the idea, which is delivering the content directly to the user. Apple made it legal, mainstream, and profitable. But it, again, did not create the idea.

I'm sorry, but this is garbage.

Summary: "Apple is awesome. Everyone else sucks."

What could have been a valid point gets derailed by blatant fanboi blinders. Apple is NOT an innovative company either. It's an innovative spin doctor. They are good at convincing people they must have a trimmed down, stylized, and monetized versions of established technologies. iPod? MP3 players. iPhone? Smartphones. iPad? Tablets. iTunes? Napster.

Further, Apple is just as into buying up established tech and upstarts to inject life into its glossy image as everyone else (SoundJam MP). It even buys open source projects when parts it requires are at risk of being GPLv3'ed (CUPS). Hell, if it were not for FreeBSD's license terms, there probably wouldn't even be a OS X or iOS at all.

Putting Shinola on things is a far cry from being innovative.

I think you missed where he said you BS is BS. This is just more of your BS.

MrNaz's points have yet to be refuted here. Ink is cheaper than CPUS to make, period. I've worked in injection molding, I know the overhead is in getting it set up. Once it is set up, it's cheap to maintain. Pennies per item. But overall, hundreds of thousands to a couple of million dollars depending on scale.

Wafers cost pennies too? Per chip, sure. No surprise there. But the setup is even more expensive, and far more R&D went into them. They also sell less volume than printer ink, and the raw materials are more expensive too. But yeah, when you look at the chip alone, it's mere pennies. The setup alone runs into the hundreds of millions, and the R&D into the billions.

The fact that you would even make this comparison is one of the most amusing arguments I have seen in a while.

How about while MrNaz is making his printer, you can make a CPU and tell everyone how well that went. (Hint: He will finish his decades before you do) Deal?

We really must take action now. Lets go ahead and take a vote to suspend democracy.

You know, THAT issue has been solved for a long time. Base 10 is lowercase, base 2 is uppercase. Likewise, little b means bit while big B means Byte (8-bits). All Ubuntu is doing is turning the mud in the water into raw sewage.

It is far easier to teach that there is a difference in base 2 and base 10 numbers and that computers are using base 2 in size calculations because they can only count to 1. The underbelly of the computer beast isn't counting any different, only Ubuntu's presentation to the user is being affected. This is superfluous math for the application at the least, and just adding more confusion for the user at most.

A byte is still 8 bits. This means that an Ubuntu kilobyte is really 8000 bits, not 10000! It will still take up 8192 bits on the disk at minimum though. Now, when people see their files are 1kB, they will still be loosing 1KiB of disk space. And their 80GB disk will still only have have about 74.5GiB available to them...

Who thinks there will be a japanophile edition that renames kibibyte to chibibyte?

The problem with ZFS root is that you need ZFS support in the boot loader, which cannot be hooked in by default for license reasons (loader is BSD, ZFS code is CDDL, all non-BSD stuff must be enabled by the user after 1st boot), but a few months back FreeBSD implemented a separate ZFS enabled boot loader for -CURRENT. All they lacked at last check was sysinstall hooks for doing it all. Maybe you should file a PR asking for zfsboot to be backported to 8-STABLE in FreeBSD so that PC-BSD can have it in 8.1 as well.

Note that FreeBSD ZFS is *not* in FreeBSD core (and never will be?) precisely because of it this, last I checked.

It's not in the core... but it is in base. FreeBSD ships with full support for ZFS (since 7.0) and only requires zfs_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf.

If you are using FreeBSD in a device and don't want or cannot use ZFS, there are several settings (WITHOUT_ZFS, WITHOUT_CDDL, WITHOUT_OPENSOLARIS) and such that can be dropped into /etc/src.conf to omit these bits completely from your build.

Sources for ZFS and other bits of non-BSD licensed software (that may be redistributed) are found under src/contrib and src/sys/contrib, where they can be easily segregated from the "pure" BSD bits.

Since you obviously missed this, TFA is a advert for CoreAVC trying to sell you a magic pill for HD playback by changing the format. TFA doesn't claim no stutter, just less. It's not quite the same to say it's 1080p just because it's 1920x1080 after you've lowered the quality down to substandard level, which is what they've done. More lossy means faster decoding, more so than the total dimension. For what it's worth, if you plan to re-encode your files anyway, you may as well shoot for the screens actual resolution instead of something roughly double the size of the viewable area. Oversized video has to be decoded, then scaled down for a second large performance hit. TFA is still a garbage advert that's promising you something you can never have... 1080p on a less than 1080p screen.

This works for Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD... Step 1. Install VLC. Step 2. Done. I use Hulu Desktop on my Aspire One under Ubuntu NBR, and there is no magic to it. How did this shit make the main page?

Google Search for any song online via Google and Lala brought a stream right to you. First listen is free, after that you have to pay. Why would Apple buy them? Considering most sane people use Google and Lala doesn't require something like iTunes, Lala was in a better position to bring music people want directly to them. This is just eliminating the competition before they got too big. Can I get an Antitrust Amen?

I think you just made case and point as to why we have an electoral college. You just said that you know your preferred candidate will not win your state, so you would rather your state not be counted at all because this will benefit your preferred candidate.

This narrow minded idiocy is why the founding fathers had the foresight to know there general populace shouldn't be trusted to make these decisions alone. Because people like you refuse to understand that your neighbors opinions happen to be just as important as your own and seek to undermine them. It's not a perfect system, by far, but it helps prevent lunatics like your ilk from obtaining pitch fork wielding mob rule.

How is removing a candidate from a ballot (or a state from the whole process) any different from keeping voters out of the ballot boxes because of their predispositions for party preference? Shenanigans like this are part of the problem in the US election system. In essence, you are the problem by endorsing the tactic for your own gain.

Please burn your voter registration card. You obviously don't understand it, and you obviously don't deserve it.