Heard of webkit?

One platform has a disproportionately high conversion rate in a growing, increasingly important marketing sector and you're confused about why it matters? Do you hate money?

Seriously? How are an OS and an online marketplace for selling additional, non-integrated software for that OS different? You really need to ask that?

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Funny because your diamond-tipped intellect sliced right through all logic and pithy wisdom, thudded straight into the heart of cliched and lazy humour, shivering there with barely-containable ironic energy, because we know that you, the Physician of Quippery are so much smarter than that and this seemingly inept, utterly sad excuse at humour was just a meta commentary on the sad, sickly state of slashdot commentary?

Fucking hilarious

Unless he is the tools. You know, he's the stuff that makes other stuff happen.

*takes another hit*

Of course that would make physicists = theologians and that may very well spark a patent dispute.

What he's talking about is turning his 'art' into pamphleteering. Social responsibility is not, nor should it be, the goal of entertainers. Sting taught me that.

It's actually Titus Groan and the sequels (Gormenghast is the second of three). The third is unfortunately a mess. But the finest fantasy ever written in my opinion.

I wouldn't call it experimental in any way - it's just atypical; it's character-driven fantasy. Grotesque and impressionistic. There's nothing else even moderately like it. If you haven't read it, do it now.

My pick for a great forgotten author - Jack Vance. Cugel's Saga is a brilliant picaresque, the Lyonesse series is wonderful, even his less successful efforts like the Tschai series are worth reading. There's something about his pacing and rhythm that I find immensely readable.

I love this - when was the golden age of television that didn't pander to the lowest common denominator, didn't thrust into your eyesockets with advertisements, had shows of culture and integrity that challenged and invigorated its audiences? When was that?

TV today is as good or better than it ever has been. There are quality shows with believable, complex characterization and multi-season arcs that don't always center upon the medical or legal system. Sure, they don't build radios out of cocoanuts or learn valuable life lessons on a Princess Cruise, but you can't have it all.

No, you don't get it at all. People should not have to learn how to use computers. Or software. That part is true.

But you're missing the point - you're not listening to why that's true. People should be able to discover, through design, how to use a computer or piece of software. That's what thoughtful design is. Paying attention to how people interact with things and using those tendencies to inform them. The idea that people should learn how computers need to be interacted with and not the other way around is ludicrous and nothing but elitism by tech-savvy types.

I'm not saying Apple is all that, but the concept is sound.

This is the second person you've incorrectly corrected. From TFA:

Unless some new system arrives for promoting new authors, I don't see how self-published ebooks help anything from the new author's perspective. If anything, I see them hurting things.

Vanity press has always been a joke, but it's been useful as a way of differentiating between a novice and an author that at least someone thinks is worth reading. Remove that and it's going to be a mess. New authors will be easily lost amidst the scurf if there are no barriers to publishing. How will reviewers know what to look at? How will buyers know what is the product of a craftsman versus the product of a hobbyist? How will fantasy writers get pictures of scantily-clad elven maidens to use on the cover? Once word gets out that all you need is a text document and Calibre, we're screwed.