Frankly I've formed the exact same opinion as ShangaBill concerning extinction.
The small therapods seem to have evolved into the birds we see everyday.
But where are the big sauropod's descendants ? I assume this jaded (erroneous) opinion is caused by the smaller animals
being a lot more numerous and uninteresting compared to the bigger ones.

Audacity
Highly overrated and has a UI that's ass. You'd be better off with Goldwav. It's worth the price if you edit audio on a regular basis and if not then the trial version is more than adequate.

Whatever happened to CoolEdit ?

Well, you're right, and I guess the OP was just being wishful. But then again, what big advantage is there in loading X86 WIN32 apps via the app store, when an X86 desktop system can load them easily already? If it's simply for the sake of the distribution mechanism (and if MS is going to take a cut), I can't imagine too many wanting to take advantage.

They would have an app store doing all the updating and marketing previously unknown programs.

Isn't this what good ISP's are already doing ?

Your opinion changes more often than my underwear.

Maybe he's training to become a politician.

You're absolutely right.
I'm from Belgium, a country that has a lot of social programs, 2 language communities and whippersnap politics.
But we can even go the FOD financien (IRS) beforehand and have them help fill out our taxform.
I did that this year for the first time and it was a huge relief and absolutely necessary considering the situation I'm in.
So get (cheap) tax aid people, not only for yourself, but for your mother, grandmother or whoever you're the go-to-guy for.

It's important to understand the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion. Tax avoidance is taking all the deductions, programs, etc. you are entitled to under tax law. We would never expect an individual to not take a tax deduction or child credit etc. because they have "courage". That's just bad personal finances.

Yet most people are unknowingly `courageous` because they don't have a tax team behind them.

Blue light wakes people up, making it harder to keep the eyes closed long enough to fall asleep.

Yes and they (Eastern Europe) have a substantially lower life expectancy.
And there is a strong correlation with alcohol abuse (http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/global_alcohol_report/msbgsruprofiles.pdf).
Frankly serving a 6 year booze, even if diluted is appalling.
And I'm from Belgium, where the legal drinking age is 16 and you have your first half of wine at 12.

How is vulkan, another cross-platform 3D api, a lower-level successor to OpenGL gonna change Linux gaming ?
If any, it's Valve that is the most successfull in getting Linux to be a viable gaming platform.

Slackware isn't source based. It delivers a well thought out binary base system of 7 GB.
On which you preferably build custom packaged software with or without the help of sbotools or sbopkg.
Anyway, ... My slackware penis goes back to 2003.

So I do tend to spend a lot of time thinking.

Thinking or letting the mind go into a cycle of obsess, ping pong, ponder, zone out and repeat.
Damned medication.

The thing that bothers me about Backblaze, and the reason why I have a very hard time taking their results seriously, is the way they design their pods. They take a custom fabbed chassis, then fill it with the most ghetto components known to man: SATA port multipliers, ultra-low-end HBAs, dual "gamer" power supplies, very substandard cooling, and until recently they used super sketchy desktop boards. It's only last year that they finally changed the board for a Supermicro, primarily to get 10GbE very cheaply. For that same money, you can buy a ready-made 60-bay Supermicro chassis with redundant power and SAS - and a warranty. Hell, I bet SM would deliver directly to Backblaze's doorstep *and* give them a friendly discount.

I agree completely, especially about all the marvell crap, but what's so wrong about a gamer PSU.
What besides form factor makes a zippy PSU that much better ?

So, you build a RAID array out of drives designed for "not RAID", and they started failing on you. And this is somehow Seagate's fault? The mind boggles.

Aren't we all building raid arrays with non-raid disks for SMB and home use nowadays anyway ?
If you're being pedantic and take RAID to mean "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks" then the Seagate Archive is in fact the most ideal candidate.
I wouldn't though but that doens't mean he shouldn't.

How do you cope with OpenSUSE's short lifecycle: do you just roll out the newest versions every year ?