Those who are intelligent and, as you claim, should be pumping out children for the best of society, are also much more likely to be depressed and commit suicide than their "stupid, ignorant" counterparts. Just sayin'.

Running on my netbook right now:
1) Firefox
2) Tagaini Jisho (Japanese Dictionary client)
3) miniAim (AIM client)
4) Skype
5) Unlocker (never leave home without it!)
6) Hamachi (so I can access my home network)
7) Foobar2000 (listen to various types of audio)
8) Proxy Switcher (required for my university's network to not infuriate me)
9) Avast! Antivirus (wouldn't count towards the limit, thankfully)
10) Orbit Downloader (grab youtube videos, etc)
11-12) A couple of random dell utilities that are marginally useful and take up about 0% CPU time.

And that's just what gets left open. And it still run fine (Dell Mini 9, gig of ram). I may not be the typical user, but I'd simply rather not have to make the sacrifice of which 8 of those I want to cut out (9 if I ever want to do anything else, like watch a movie file, or use my flashcard program, or play a game, or check my mail with thunderbird, or...). That sucks.

Actually, doing those things is akin to running cheat programs or hacks. Buying gold in a boring MMO is completely unlike your two examples. I am only mildly surprised you got modded up, however.

"Lafou I'm afraid I've been thinking..."
"A dangerous pastime!"
"I know!"

Gaston would have made a brilliant leader in the modern day, too.

Sure they aren't.

I hear it's the beginning of April now.

Thanks for that. It just seemed odd that I can walk down a street here and see people whipping them out from time to time (more than I did living in the states), yet be told that "nobody's buying them". Something just wasn't lining up.

Got a source or a link for the low sales numbers? My impression is that it's selling rather well in Japan.

You don't make any sense.

From wikipedia: "A shill is an associate of a person selling goods or services or a political group, who pretends no association to the seller/group and assumes the air of an enthusiastic customer."

Therefore, a Linux-centric source wouldn't be a shill... as they're known to be linux-centric...

Show me where a firefox addon can be installed automatically (or with minimal user response) and lead to a malware infection on your entire system, much like ActiveX could (and still can). And then show me Adblock in ActiveX (can you even do that?). Then I will concede the point. Else, I'm going to say "apples and oranges", despite your claim.

Just joining Slashdot, and you're already overly defensive and taking things personally. You'll fit in well here.

It was a joke, son. "Logocentrism" is a word I've never heard before your post, and I'm certain I'm not alone. Combine that with your seeming tendency to imitate academic writings, and you come off sounding similar to, but not quite common English.

No harm meant, but you sure went out of your way to respond. I don't even have a worthwhile opinion on your post... yet you seem to think I was disagreeing. Or something.

P.S. "Explicate"? It means "explain". Any time you would use a word that has a single-word definition, just use the definition, especially in a public forum.

I'm sorry, Slashdot is an English-only forum. In the future, please make sure to post in a language we can understand.

The problem is, actually, communities that have gotten it into their heads the extreme version of this - if it is popular, it is bad. I'd be lying to myself if I said event this community doesn't suffer from that.

These things get modded down not because of the mods "disagreeing" with his post - it deserved to be modded down. His exaggerations are to the point of trolling - some of those ("on par with the latest botnet"!?) are, to be short, wrong and serve no purpose other than to make others angry. If the same post had said the same things about Windows, Linux, Cars, etc., it would have still been modded down. You may agree with his sentiments (and I do too), but if you agree with the actual message, you probably don't know what you're talking about. And nevertheless, it doesn't change the fact that he, in the end, doesn't deserve to be modded up. If you want to spread the facts about something, do it in a way that isn't meant to intentionally piss people off.

More like "a scientist would never have thought of this approach", because this is actually incredibly simple. Almost any undergrad biology student knows how to do this, they'd just need the lab. Nobody's done this professionally before because it'd be considered a waste of time.