This is a serious, though exasperated question, born of years of frustration with the leader of ideals I subscribe to:

Why in all of the universe don't you bother to look basically presentable and behave in a basically likeable way? Do you really not realize that you are the Free Software movement's greatest liability because of your shitty appearance and behaviour? How does this basic fact of humanity manage to evade you for all these years?

No, you can't. The kernel hasn't even fit on a floppy for many years now.

Simplicity and long-term convenience. The complications caused by those "conveniences" of other distros have a way of getting in the way at unexpected moments and making life very inconvenient. Doing the configuration right the first time by learning to understand what you're actually doing may take extra effort but pays off in the long run.

No you don't. Knock it off with the hyperbole, reality is more than bad enough.

DPI is what resolution is. "1680x1050" is not a resolution, it's just the number of pixels.

Firefox fixed that problem ages ago.

Uh... geez. Where to even start?

The first and last real MS innovation was the Microsoft BASIC interpreter which became ubiquitous in 1980s home computers. Everything else they ever did was shamelessly stolen and/or bought and/or badly copied from others. Even MS-DOS started out as a bought-out CP/M imitation.

They disparaged GUIs and the whole idea of user-friendly computing until the Mac proved them wrong. It took them a decade to come up with a usable competitor (Windows 95). Then it took them years to recognize the importance of the Internet, so they killed the competition by illegally leveraging their monopoly on Windows desktops. With the competition dead, they stalled IE development and set back web innovation by a decade until Firefox broke the market back open.

Now you can see them screw up the same way with mobile devices. It took even Bill Gates until last week to admit that the PC-centric model may be "changing". Thankfully, with Gates gone and that dancing sweatmonkey in charge, they don't seem to be capable of their past level of predation anymore.

MS has always been a follower at best. It has frequently been a predatory abuser of its monopoly. It has usually parasitized on the innovations of others. Embrace, extend, extinguish was always how they operated. It has never been an innovation leader.

No. In the first few weeks, when the fake account operated, Reddit didn't even have comments (as you could have learned from watching the video).

I never understood this type of argument. Linux is still similar enough between distros that switching from one distro to another is not an insurmountable hurdle if it should become necessary.

Exactly. Of course, if Erickson had patented that idea, success would have been pretty much guaranteed. :-/

Of course pi-based music is copyrightable. TFA even states explicitly: "That doesn't mean Erickson's copyright is invalid." Both Erickson and Blake retain copyright over their respective songs, which (other than both being based off pi) are distinct. What is not copyrightable is the idea of basing a song off pi. The title should have read "Judge Rules Pi Is Non-Copyrightable."

Not necessarily. If people tend to lose their inhibitions when communicating via a keyboard (as opposed to in-person communication), then they will either be more honest or more dishonest â" i.e. more of what they would have been anyway. So the Internet can make the population in general both more likely to tell the truth and more likely to lie.

Actually, 3.6.x gets security updates to this day.

Every add-on worth installing has long since adapted and anticipates several versions in advance. I've never had a problem.

Yes. Like I said, it's silly. It's also not a big enough thing to make this huge fuss about, much less to stick to old and buggy versions. In my experience, FF has been getting much better and faster.

You know, if only you could get rid of your fixation on the version number and just keep up with the latest version, it would be so easy to make yourself happy because the latest release has all those bugfixes you're looking for. What is it with this silly fixation that some people have on the silly versioning scheme? Yes, I know the new versioning scheme is silly, but it's just a fucking versioning scheme. Get over it already.

Yes, and? "Redacting" a PDF by changing the text colors is not a computer maintenance issue, it's a basic failure to understand the fundamentals of using a computer. It's the equivalent of driving into a house because you don't know how the steering wheel works.