The point is, OP didn't say anything for or against Bitcoin. It was just an analysis of Forbes' posture against this whole thing.

I still don't get what those vertical bars across the graph are. What's the meaning of them being red or green? This: http://bitcoinity.org/markets is also a great page, but much in the same way, I don't understand the second graph. I've read the WTF section and the Reddit explanation...

You surely proved him wrong, pal!

Could you expand on your view? I'm not sure I really get it.

As an Argentinian, I believe invading the Falklands/Malvinas was one of the stupidest things we've ever done, and we've done plenty of stupid shit.

Hearing the difference now isn’t the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is ‘lossy’. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA – it’s about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don’t want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.

I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrangewell don’t get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren’t stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you’ll be glad you did.

Uhm... What happened in the last quarter of 2008?

This is what you get with proprietary software. Under that kind of software, you don't get the tools and legal permissions to do that kind of stuff. You got exactly what you bought, nobody promised you would get any sort of benefit once they stop providing updates for that product.

I mean, this situation does suck, but that's just the nature of closed-source software. This complaint is out of scope of the realities for this OS.

Is Debian 2.2 still receiving updates? (It's not) Then why are you expecting Microsoft to still provide updates to XP? I mean, I really dislike MS as a company, but this kind of complaint is just plain and utterly retarded.

Dude, 512 GB flash drives have been announced by Kingston already. Sure, they're expensive, but we'll have them this year. Double that is 2 or 3 years ahead at most.

You dropped $30.000* - $80.000* on a house, but only put 2 ($4200) CPUs in the machine? Cheapskate. * House 1 = $30.000 * House 2 = $80.000

Both you and I know this is extremely subjective.

It's a major release and as such it should be reported. Firefox also has a similar release schedule and it gets reported as much on Slashdot. I do find this new kind of release schedule (both on Chrome and Firefox) completely idiotic, but that's a whole different issue.

By your logic, Chrome should've been mentioned by Slashdot only once, during it's initial release, since it includes a silent updater from day 1.

Only Slashdot's virgin clueless fags can mod this comment to +5 insightful,

They use a different kind of technology to transfer video, it's not done over Bluetooth. I don't know exactly what technology, though.

Thank you for putting some humor in this thread. This topic terrifies me.