Yes they really do detract from the quality of life. I'm thinking those big record companies are going downhill. The sooner they go out of business the better as far as I am concerned.

That's the message the record companies are trying to send.

Agreed. What's the good of a "safe harbor" if the courts allow the record companies to bring frivolous lawsuits which cost huge dollars to defend?

You could just as easily put two europeans in the back seat instead. Sometimes stereotypes are real, sometimes they are rude exagerations, and sometimes they change.

I have no idea if you are just completely trolling or if you think you are serious... I have seen Ubuntu 12.04 systems with ATI HD3450 cards working perfectly fine - without needing the proprietary drivers. My system is a Fedora 16 box with a 4670 card and it also runs perfectly fine and doesn't need the proprietary drivers at all. I did a live boot of Fedora 18 and it ran fine though I have not done the install yet. I have no idea how you would want to say they are "fucking busted." Unless you specifically mean that in your delusional rage you cannot possibly run the regular drivers and thus attempt to use the proprietary drivers and these fail in some manner making everything "totally FUCKING BUSTED" for some reason. Wow... but hey those functional drivers must be a "peice of shit."

So true. It has just worked for me for a few years now. Ever since the early pulseaudio disaster. I would add to what you said: being able to buy/build typical cheap PCs at reasonable prices. That are towers.

I understand that some might like OS X and Apple products but they do not make anything equivalent to what I have purchased. For the times that they have come close it is not at prices I was willing to pay. Seriously: even an Ipod was twice the price of the Sansa for the same size/style of player. Is $75 or $150 really a choice for a player that has less audio codec support?

I am just surmising that you meant RMS based on the "other ecosystems" comment? He is a different person than ESR. You know that right? Seriously look it up.

Aside from that little thing... It would be arguable if he has indeed "got more legitimate cred" but arguing with an AC is just not worth it. Raymond's past projects list is nothing to scoff at. To speak contemptibly about the work of Stallman would also be disingenuous merely because he, umm, eats toe jam and is loved madly by the crazies on /g/. Come to think of it for you to have any validity to what you said you would indeed have to be thinking of ESR - and then only arguably. Damn now I am arguing with an AC. Fail.

Hilarious. Our town painted lines on the roads for bicyclists. Apparently they should've also painted stop at the appropriate locations because the idiots don't remember what a stop sign or a stop light is.

No kidding. He is a programmer, right? Which typically means he has a combination of books he could use to get to the appropriate height he wants. I did this for quite a while. Now however, at home, I am happy with one monitor. Which conveniently is height adjustable. This guy could do the same if he put the laptop off to the side or in a laptop hammoc on the side of the desk. A 27" at 2560x1440 is pretty comfy. Google/duckduckgo for ars or some other guide... If it was sitting on the desk to the side, when connected, the laptop could become the secondary monitor for GUI debugging, etc, if that helps with his work. But yea this is a rather lame ask /. question. The guy might as well waste his day looking at battlestations or something.

It should probably be tossed, or revamped. From what I understand (which comes from stories like this) kids need help from the very start. By the time preschool rolls around it is (largely) too late. Are we to ask the government to go into the houses of the newborn to two years old and have social workers talk to children? Now what I would propose as acceptable: subsidizing day cares for the working poor so that their children could be well cared for during the day time and have greater standards and practices for those in day care so that they try to do things (like using a greater vocabulary) that nurture these youngsters in a proven healthy manner. Not just feed and wipe them. We can't just throw money at problems, we need to understand the problems. Correction, we do not need to, we can just keep going deeper into debt while not understanding the new economy at all and do what we're doing with the inevitable doom. Good luck lower income families that are not able to inspire the minds of your young. The factory doors are closed.

The only thing Bitcoin has proven to be is incredibly volatile. Great job? I am suprised these exchanges don't advertise on Glenn Beck.