It's not the immaturity of children that bothers me, but the immaturity of adults. Not having my broken toys replaced was how I learned to take care of them. If every broken toy is replaced, the child never matures. Children need to start learning, as soon as they're able, that their actions have consequences. Just because one does have the money to replace everything one's child breaks doesn't mean one should.

Not to be "that guy," but it's time to be that guy. How do you justify buying your kids replacements for stuff they don't take care of?

Stop making Snow Crash seem even more plausible than it is already.

This is why I prefer the phrase "roll your own."

Cutting its throat with a toothbrush?

Example #2: Amarok, the most kick-ass music player there is.

Fun fact! KDE runs pretty great on my 7 year old laptop with Intel built in graphics and 1.5 GB RAM.

Quaff the fucking manual? (Yeah, yeah, I know, but that really was the first thing that popped into my head.)

Kinda bummed that Shenmue beat out Skies of Arcadia in their category, but I have a bias there. The real question is, why the hell was Jet Grind Radio, an arcade-style graffiti-em-up, in the same category as a traditional JRPG and an adventure game set in 80s Japan?

Actually, to me it sounded like it was put together by a committee of people, only a minority of which are gamers. "What? Shooter? That sounds silly and violent. What do you do in those games, shoot at targets? Let's call it Target."

I do have a beard, dammit. Stop stereotyping me!

This was not Amazon's pricing algorithm. This was the individual pricing algorithms of third-party robots selling on Amazon's marketplace, working together in a delightful feedback loop.

Mod parent up! I clicked this article for the sole purpose of posting that Penny Arcade comic.

My two cents! I've been using KDE4's lovely netbook interface fairly extensively for a couple of months now, and I've grown to love it. Although minimize and maximize both still exists, at least, their importance is greatly diminished. All windows are maximized by default, and minimization is accomplished with smart hiding. I.e., if I click the activity with which I launch applications in the activity switcher in the panel, all windows get hidden.

This is only annoying (and easily remedied at that) once in a blue moon, when I'm trying to drag and drop between applications. Otherwise, it makes sense and is exactly what I want. One application has all of my focus at a time, which is exactly what I do on other desktop environments anyway. Everything else is just an alt+tab away.

I believe this is a tentative step in the right direction, but Gnome is going about it all wrong. Features in flux shouldn't be removed for removal's sake (which is what seems to have happened,) but de-emphasized by other smart design chioces.

I doubt Linux. My understanding is that the jump from 0.x to 1.0 and from 1.x to 2.0.0 broke binary compatibility, as well as marking a major change.