Well, some comments are funny and welcome. The problem lies in the fact that now is so easy to use a computer that the the football captains and the cheerleaders are appearing on Slashdot to comment (why, I really do not know), but without the necessary capacity and cultural baggage to comment something useful or interesting.

But that said, it is important that you (and I, others, etc.) be tolerant, because though some are obviously stupid comments (like those involving bodily functions) others may not be stupid, being only slightly below what you (and me) think is good.

Do not waste your time with the Nimey, he's just another troll who can not understand what others write and he take pleasure in offending others when writing.

With a replacement SLC SSD and a screwdriver

Sorry, you have problems with text interpretation? I made it clear that I work with the language on a pretty big system.

This. Thanks for sharing this information. Most people do not understand that the sexes are biologically different and that's not necessarily bad, we just need to accept that and always take this difference into account when interacting with the opposite sex.

Is irrevelant only for you. On my organization (and in many others, I can assure you) we care about the many opinions about a programming language when we are deciding which language to use in a given project.

So I "think" that is a bad knife (from my experience using it on a big government system) and you thinks is a good knife[citation needed], so what? Is ony your opinion against mine, and I seriously doubt that your opinion carries more weight than mine only because you want so.

PHP is a very bad knife, and even a good cook can do a better (or easier) work when he have good knifes.

All your base belong us! How would you forgotten this one :-)?

And as usual someone moderated you as flamebait, even though you are completely correct.

Good way to turn reasonable people in religious nuts.

it was possible to do this with PqMagic few years ago. It's a shame that it was discontinued, it was simply the best disk partitioner I have ever used.

I hope that does not happen. But think what happens if your favorite operating system - that you need to make your computer run - begins to work only if connected to a cloud?

Nothing is stopping people writing desktop applications. Are you just annoyed that people are choosing cloud services out of convenience?

No. My fear is that they end up trying to implement the "cloud" in anything and everything just because it's "cool", no matter the consequences. Just imagine: Windows depending on the cloud to work, Linux too, Eclipse refusing to work unless you have a connection all the time with a cloud, Photoshop or GIMP refusing to save your images in any other place than a cloud, Word or LibreOffice refusing to save your files because you are offline. Everyone embarking on the cloud hype without worrying about what happens when you lost your connection.