Wow! Check out the number of really stupid grammatical & punctuation mistakes WMF made here.

What a fucking idiot (or perhaps still under the influence of various NYE delights)

Ives may have listed Rams as an influence, but Rams never ever put for before function.

I'ves did (or was pressured to)

I find the patent activities Apple is engaging in absurd and evil....snip....the solution is not to boycott Apple

The ghost of the reality distortion is stronger in this one than any I have seen.

BEHOLD! We have found a host for or lord. The time for revivification is upon us.

BOW DOWN UNBELIEVERS AMONGST YOU. OUR DARK LORD RISES SOON.

no matter what the food, if it's good for you it's expensive, bad for you if it's cheap.

There are few foods as expensive (or healthy) as a sack of beans & a sack of brown rice.

The real trouble is all fast and convenient healthy options are expensive.

1) Actually, in written English, when space is not constrained you should write the word percent.

2) Perhaps the submitter is a non-native English speaker & the convention for their native language is to place the symbol before the number (Some middle eastern countries do this).

You're criticizing a minor style error, when you can't capitalize or spell?

China now top patent DEfiler

I think the country with the highest number of patent trolls deserves that particular title don't you?

(take a guess which country that is)

WoT is a short little series you should be able to finish on the flight.

Back when I was a teenager, a 'friend' of mine gave me the first three books of WoT.

"Read this," sez he, "It's a great trilogy, I love the way it wraps up so quickly in the last book, so much better than other fantasies that don't really finish the story"

Prick.

From TFA:

On December 22, Arlotta consented to entry of a six-month HRO that prohibited him from (1) committing any acts “intended to adversely affect [Johnson's] safety, security, or privacy,” [emph mine]

He started the blog the day after.

It wouldn't shock me if you were a fucking idiot. A lot of anons are.

"Ripping Off"? Making a similar product to a competitor is not illegal.

Get specific about exactly how (trademarks, copyright? patents?) you think Samsung has behaved illegaly & we might start listening to you.

(are you really a SK sock-puppet?)

If you shop around, you can find bricks for less than a dollar each.

Yes, but as the article* pointed out, this tower is not made of 99c bricks, but prefabricated polystyrene foam modules. Which could be cheap, but most probably are one-offs that are reasonably expensive to manufacture in the quantities required.

You need to revisit your cost-benefit ratio if you're basing it around 99c bricks.

* I know its not fashionable to read the article here on slashdot, but it mentions this right in the summary.

Better known? Did you try comparing to (ALAC or "Apple Lossless")? I'll grant however that FLAC going by one name all the time without synonyms gives it an SEO boost.

Yes, I did. FLAC has more results (by an order of magnitude) than ALAC & Apple Lossless combined. (Do you really think companies who stick to a single name for their product are doing it for a SEO boost?)

It doesn't matter much what the vendors use if the vast majority of digital music devices are made by Apple.

The vast majority of portable, dedicated digital music devices are made by Apple, but plenty of people use their phone or Media PC connected to a stereo to listen to music on.

But honestly, all of this is irrelevant compared to how well flac / alac fit into the rest of your ecosystem. If you're using itunes (gag) / ipods, use alac. If not, use flac.

f we're free to convert between the two now, what advantage is there in using FLAC instead of ALAC?

There are no differences between the two in terms of music quality, but FLAC:

* Supports replaygain
* Has better tagging support (subjective)
* Is better known
* Contains better (any!) error detection (able to batch-verify downloaded files)
* Is preferred lossless codec for vast majority of digital music vendors.

But honestly, all of this is irrelevant compared to how well flac / alac fit into the rest of your ecosystem. If you're using itunes (gag) / ipods, use alac. If not, use flac. If you're technically proficient & want to have lossless files that you reecnode for your portable device, I'd probably go flac for that too.

I believe he needs my username

You're kidding right? If you want to share even mediocre quality photos, Facebook is useless. Max of 720px per side (unless things have changed recently) + compressed to all hell means you can't even place a decent quality 1024x768 desktop background on that site for others to enjoy. Never mind print quality.

There's plenty of nice competitors to Flickr, but facebook is not one of them.