Yes, there's actually two hierarchies in Buddhism. I'm not talking about the Buddhism near India, but in South East Asia like Thailand.

Why? Pure technology is never everything. Making good user interfaces and good usability takes intelligence and knowledge. This is the same kind of elitist "what I do is much more harder and requires more intelligence than what others do" bullshit. It's on the edge of narcissism.

Your product or technology might be hundreds of times better than the competitors, but it still needs to have good usability and all the other things. This is the same thing about marketing - even if your product is in every way superior to others, it doesn't help if no one knows about it.

These are the two things geeks seem to ignore and just act like they're better than anyone else.

There are actually tons of porn sites that work with iPhone, and all the usual webmaster scripts support it. If you search for mobile porn and go to such site, it will give iPhone version of the site with HTML5 video.

Yes, because protecting the devices from malware and bad apps by only allowing purchases via app store is equivalent to slavery.

AlJazeera has revolutions all over the place? Wait, what? You do know AlJazeera is also USA/European TV channel?

I didn't know Steve Jobs was Buddhist. That seriously improves his image a lot, as Buddhism is the only religion that can be taken seriously and isn't about judging and killing other people in the name of some imaginary person. Buddha himself has lived and told people to think things with their own brains instead of following some stupid book.

It's interesting that persons promoting freedom want to restrict what other people do. This is also why I like BSD license more than GPL. It is truly free software license, while GPL tries to restrict what people can do with software and code. On top of that they don't seem to understand that usability and UI's matter A LOT. Face it, interfaces and user experience has always been horrible with FOSS software. Ubuntu has tried to fix that with Linux, but it's still far from Mac OSX or even Windows. Even I hate that interface. This is why companies have actual persons working solely on interfaces, user experience and usability - it's an important thing. With FOSS software the author just throwns in together quickly, with some menu items or buttons sometimes just as a placeholder that do nothing!

I'm not exactly fan of Apple, but Richard Stallman has no merits to basically say he's glad Steve Jobs is dead. Apart from the fact that it is completely stupid thing to say, he just seems jealous that people like Jobs' products and ideas better. The fact is, apart from the a few geeks, people in the real world really don't care about his views or what he is trying to promote.

When people, even some geeks, think about Apple's products they just think they can go to a store and buy a device that will work straight away and is guaranteed to have some quality. They don't want to mess around with the system. Running only free software really does not concern them and never will. It would be good if Stallman and other FOSS fanatics understood that and stop acting like jerks, because that will only have negative effect on their image.

Seriously, what was he thinking? Now people will think of Linux geeks as those lunatics who are happy to see people die.

The comparison is just fine. The original argument is that if you're just copying something, then it can't be stealing or theft because in those cases you actually lose the item. In identity theft you do not lose it, so according to pirates identity theft also is just harmless copying.

So? Both you and the seller have agreed to it.

It's not stealing, it's just making a copy. The original person still has his/her identity left.

And still this was only some analysis by some analysis company, which obviously wanted to do some marketing towards them. They, or we for that matter, have no idea if Amazon is actually selling it at a loss of $10. They most likely have got a good deal for the parts too, being a huge company and shipping millions of Kindles.

It's just sad that now a days every piece of story is taken as absolute truth.

No, they only "need" to be classified if a country constantly tries to force their views and politics down everyone else's throats (US and Christian "crusades", I'm looking at you!). It just shows that these secrets are used for evil and bad things, for murdering people.

If you worry that some nuclear designs leak out, what about not creating them in the first place? Their only purpose is to mass kill thousands of people. And US is still the ONLY country in the history to even use nuclear weapons against another country. It's such a fucking huge hypocrisy. "Protecting from evil countries" while US itself is the root of evil and has always been. But what more can you expect from a country made of Christians and their beliefs in some imaginary god in the sky.

Maybe I'm being too harsh on US though, as it's clear this has roots all the way back to ancient European beliefs, Rome and Christianity. At least Buddhism teaches real things, real values and there's no imaginary persons, as Buddha himself has actually lived. And he said to think and evaluate things with your own brains, instead of following some stupid book.

Well guess what, you can still use traditional desktop and desktop apps with Windows 8! Metro is just GUI for tablets and those who want to use it on computer.

Exactly. Metro is just GUI. In fact, you can use .NET languages to develop for it. Even the article doesn't talk anything about Metro. wtf submitter?