http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/

I almost spit chili all over my computer when I read that....

Exactly. They may not be the internet messiah that some people like to think that they are, but they are better than any huge corporation that I can think of. Also, I don't think that MS was ever not an evil company, I thought they started out ripping people right from the get-go with DOS. I could be wrong though.

Either way, show me a company of Google's stature (or even close to it) that does better than they do as far as the whole "do no evil thing." With the enormous temptation it must sometimes be to manipulate markets unethically for Google's own benefit, I think they do a damn good job.

Now that would be brilliant, an html5 plugin for ie8. Open source and made by google. WTB.

That movie was so awesome.

I bet our youth would feel a hell of a lot less entitled to everything if we instituted the battle royale system here...

It needs that extra battery life, considering it's also the slowest browser.

I don't mine the intentions of DRM. I'm all for game developers getting payed for what they make. The reality, though, is that the drm gets cracked and the game gets pirated anyway. So the end result is that the game costs more to make in order to put the DRM in, the user experience is often worse from having to deal with said DRM, and the pirates still do what they do. So nobody wins.

At some point (and it may have arguably already happened with some games) the consumer will be able to a get better game by NOT paying for it, simply because they will be able to find a cracked version that doesn't treat them like a criminal. (ie phoning home regularly for security, getting pissy about being reinstalled, etc.)

The fastest way to load a page full of javascript is to not load the javascript? Brilliant.

Don't want people to know you are a pervert? There's an add-on for that.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8631

When ads stop being obnoxious people won't see the need to block them anymore.

I generally run without an ad-blocker, but when I do I specifically allow ads like those from google. It's hard to begrudge a site a small, unobtrusive column of text for ads. Run flashy, bandwidth-heavy ads though, and I'll likely only see the first one before I block them all from your site. :P

Paint.net instead of the GIMP?
Epic fail.

It's no longer 2002. Install Ubuntu and you will NEVER have to use the CLI. That's right. NEVER. I like it because you can do some neat things with it, but then I use CLI in windows too. But is it required for normal operation? No. It's not.

Do I think Linux is retard-friendly on the level of windows? No. But It's come a long way. And the old CLI complaint has officially died. Buried next to driver support qq and native-app woes.

Don't like? Fine. But leave your FUD at the door please.

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19990307&mode=classic

I feel like such a nerd for posting such a web comic from 10 years ago....

I'd be a lot happier if the government took back the last mile and opened it up to more third party distributors. I think the real problem is the pseudo-monopolies on broadband services.