Wtf, modded insightful? I am the only one who recognized the sarcasm here!?

I guess it really depends *which* blogs you read. I have a very different opinion of blogs than yours, since my experience of them is mostly through my father who reads political blogs and listens to political pod casts most evenings. Not that blogs have the kind of refined presentation that television or newspaper news have, but I think as with anything the kind of material that gets the most attention tends to be the most outrageous, or the most widely appealing. One unpleasant side effect of capitalism is that the less substantial but more widely appealing consistently beats out the more substantial but more difficult to appreciate. Ah, I know this fact so well :-(

For those of you of the "new breed" of slashdotters that seem to have insightful and troll mixed up, the above post is a classic example of trolling.

If you put together the cost of a Tivo DVR, a subscription to Tivo, and a subscription to Netflix / Blockbuster, this is not so great of a deal. In the Chicago area where we have Comcast, they loan you the cable box, the Comcast guide is actually quite a bit better (IMO) than the Tivo one, and you can easily add DVR service for cheap. As for Netflix streaming content, it's not quite to the point where it's worth it yet - most streaming content is the type of stuff you see on TV at 2AM - bad Seagal action flicks, etc. etc. Any good movies and you gotta get it sent. I dont' expect Blockbuster's selection to be any better - especially when we all know the kind of collaboration going on behind the scenes here, preventing streaming content from really taking off....

Lots of them.

Dammit, why do they always pick one of the big name crappy inflexible binary distros that is stuck half way between been a full blown desktop and a half configurable disaster. Why not really build a customized system... from scratch, or using something much more customizable such as Gentoo!

This is just glaring evidence of the racket that this business is in the first place, relying on a pattern of new releases at full price to continue their profit margin when they should just be selling 1 product and continued support for cheap

Linux needs your permission to continue... But, before you continue, Linux would like to know why you want to do this. Don't you know there is a better way to do this? Why are you using a GUI anyway. Did you even bother to RTFM? Before you go around wasting the precious time of the developers that painstakingly worked for measly donations to create this dialog box you might want to, oh, I dunno, check the help pages? Or maybe you might try not being a total idiot!

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Time has shown that when the amount of wealth increases, the distribution stays nearly the same. The only way to get rid of a "poor" class _IS_ to take money away from the wealthy.

Yeah... but all of them offer encrypted lvm at no additional cost :P

This man clearly has no honor. If I were to meet him I would not hesitate to disembowel him.

... think that they could go on selling copies of Windows XP for the next century. People don't care about whether or not their OS has the latest virtualization technology, or version of DirectX. They care about their web sites, music, games, and pr0n. I think people are just sick of having to deal with upsets in the already steady stream of digital goodness they have been feeding off of with XP.