I think he means that he'll buy the 750GB drive.

Yes, but your ancestors' "co-workers" likely didn't care too much how they smelled. ;)

Although the GNU utils tend to be more full-featured, it's perfectly possible to use the Linux kernel with a BSD userland.

I have a feeling that the opinion of Vista will stay largely static forever; it may have introduced new features, but it still wasn't that good. This is already how the public feels about WinME -- it added useful features like System Restore, but it wasn't until XP that those features were incorporated in a good OS.

But what if you knew that a Flux Capacitor would make time travel possible, and knew how it would work? Would you tell everyone how it worked before you managed to build one?

True, but what if you managed to build a flux capacitor? Would you be willing to tell people what it does, or would you just point to a flashing box and say "This is what makes time travel possible!"

Yeah, it's a simple dialog box saying something like "Would you like to install restricted codecs to play this video?"

Compare this to Windows, where you have to download a codec pack (or, make a mess of your computer by installing 10 different codecs independently). Windows users also haven't quite come to a consensus on the best codec pack (I use CCCP), which means that there's a chance of incompatibility between two machines. This has made it so that even though most people use WMP, MPC, or Zoom Player, that most people have VLC installed as well just in case they come across something that other players don't handle well.

As a former resident of New England, I thank you not to include *shudder* Pennsylvania as a member of our fine region.

And technically, Maddox's site uses mostly grey text, so you don't get the persistence of vision effect that coolgeek refers to.

I don't have that option. We have a light rail system where I currently live, but my commute runs almost exactly perpendicular to the track.

The apartment I'm looking to move this fall is going to be out of reasonable biking range, but if I had an electric car, it would be nice if I could still pedal along to help reduce the amount of power I have to feed in from my wall socket.

He only really slowed down once he got a book deal, and started devoting his time to writing for pay. You can't really blame him; most college students who contribute to open-source projects find they have much less time and drive to do so after they get hired.

That gives me an idea: make an electric car that contains bicycle pedals inside. You don't have to pedal hard enough to keep the car running, but any energy you put into the pedals recharges the battery. It would keep you in shape, and would extend the range of the car, even if not by that much.

As I said in another thread the other day: Whether or not you like his writing, I think Maddox hit the peak of usable web design: dark background, with large-font bright text. It's the easiest webpage on the internet to read, and despite having some graphics, it loads very quickly because he uses the graphics as actual content, not just filler.

"tl;dr" usually implies more than just the length of the text involved (although in some cases people are just that impatient). Usually it means that the writing either drags, or is just unnecessarily long for the message conveyed.

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