Your preference for 24/96 audio as a listener is entirely due to the placebo effect. There are good reasons to master audio in high res, but for listening 16 bit 44.1khz audio is as good as anything.

There's a pretty good explanation of this (and other factors) on xiph.org: "24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed"

If you're going to take the place to be a reactionary "victim" then maybe you should ask yourself who victimized you first -- AT&T perhaps? If AT&T left your car unlocked, would you still blame the thief?

I don't know if I'd blame AT&T for the theft just for leaving my car unlocked, but I'd definitely blame them for it if they gave my keys to anyone who asked.

Only if you really messed up.

Every time I run man and get a pointer to texinfo, I want to beat my head on the keyboard. I do not have the time, once again, to look up those obscure keyboard commands so that I may navigate laboriously through the documentation.

Then just pipe it through your pager, and you'll have basically the exact same experience as if it was a man page. e.g.:

info info | less

OK?

The F-Droid app store, to use its own description "is an easily-installable catalogue of FOSS applications for the Android platform". They even do most of the work, like building your app from source, for you. And F-Droid doesn't even include non-FOSS apps to compete with the FOSS ones. How is Microsoft's thing more FOSS-friendly than that?

A license that does not offer a rewarding development model is an invitation for corporations to come in and exploit the developers.

Out of curiosity, and since it helps to establish whether your arguments actually have any grounding in actual experience: what do you do for a living, what's your method of compensation, and what is your yearly income?

There are several makers of Linux laptops, at this point:
I've had great experiences buying from ZaReason, I know people who have had great experiences buying from System76, and ThinkPenguin is another option.

I'm writing this from a ZaReason UltraLap 430 (see recent review on Ars Technica, and a video review by Tom Merritt [note that there are a couple of mistakes about specs in the video]), which I love even more than the Thinkpad X-series that it replaced.

My wife has a ZaReason Alto 4330 that she loves even more than the Thinkpad X-series that it replaced.

For work, I've had several ZaReason machines--including some Alto 3880 laptops (the previous generation of what my wife now has). We got the Altos with 8-way multiprocessing (4-core + hyperthreading) and gobs of RAM, with run-times of 3-4 hours on a single charge and weight just over 4 lbs; they've made fantastic developers' laptops for us.

And, for what you get, the ZaReason machines aren't even that expensive (seriously--a monster-power Alto is only ~$1k).

If you ask for it, the computers even come with whatever username you want setup--you don't even have to fill your name into the account; you just turn the computers on and use them (if you don't ask for it, they infer it from the name on the order).

As I understand it from my friends, System 76 is basically the same way, except that they're Ubuntu only.

Where are the great programmer's calculators?

Here: Qi Hardware's NanoNote makes a great programmer's calculator (including graphing/plotting with gnuplot), and it also does some other stuff well, too.

I got one early on, when they were only $100 (as did my wife, and a few friends), and it was worth every penny. These days they're selling for $150, and I'd say they're still worth every penny.

why not require that every generic TLD we currently have - .com, .org, .net, .gov, .edu, .mil be preceded by the country TLD to which it belongs? Thereby, one would have things like nasa.us.gov, mit.us.edu, oxford.eng.edu, dod.us.mil and so on. For the ones that already exist, alias them to such a new system, so that those handful of TLDs are generic. After that, there should be less of a proliferation of TLDs. And they all get to be managed by different countries. Only exceptions would be international organizations, like un.gov, nato.mil and so on.

OK, what happens when a person owning a domain moves to a different country?

If you want Open Textbooks, and there are many reasons to want them, you should not start by announcing to the world that you wrote the complete thing in a three day sprint. That's just handing a line to the commercial publishers to use in opposing such works.

Maybe not. But...:

If you are not going to do everything that a commercial publisher and their authors would do to ensure the quality of the work...

A teacher friend recently pointed out this quality of the work in textbooks to me. It seems like quality isn't what makes it hard to compete--rather, it's the same sort of things that made it hard for opensource software to compete with Microsoft et al.

I will change to iphone 5 anyhow because im apple all the way.

For this change yes, i will say again and again: fuck them and the horse they rode in on....

Fuck them.... They wont loose me as a customer....

I guess this is supposed to be irony: you got that exactly backward. Unless you mean "fuck them until they're gratified", which would be a somewhat unusual use of that imperative. You're pretty clearly positioning yourself as the `bottom' in this relationship, though.

And work it will or else.

Or else what? You'll get over it?

I like Michael R. Head's description of VC as "Saving All Your Work Forever":
http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~mike/seminars/cvs-svn-bzr-bucs-seminar-2007.pdf .