http://xkcd.com/449/

A very relevant area where this problem can be readily seen is computer data formats.

Except for Ron Paul, of course.

The "i" of this decade is the "e" of the '90s.

And if it was mindfull robots, that means the machines have won and we wouldn't be discussing this right now.

You know what else I've noticed? Every time a poster says "Mod me troll, but..." or "I expect to get modded down for this, but..." they always get modded +5 in[sightful|formative|teresting].

Fine, but you're not saying how heavily you're read-writing on those disks.

I thought it was software patents that were the problem, not copyright. Or am I missing something?

Ayn Rand's not building the railroad. Dagny Taggart is.

Islam has never had a renaissance?

How do you explain this, then?

This sounds exactly like that sketch from The Onion Movie. "I ain't askin' for no god-damn handout, I want a muthafuckin' job, bitch!"

This is quite an interesting phenomenon to me. It seems like with the whole "cloud" business, we're going back to a client-server computing approach; the servers and clients are just a shit-ton more powerful than anything 20-30 years ago.

LXDE is amazing as well. It's really light and efficient. It's my personal favorite out of all the traditional-look-and-feel desktop environments.

Whoa, hold on there! I'm sure if they own an Android or webOS device, they'll have heard of Linux at some point, no matter how small the reference may be.

Depends on the target audience. If your goal as a distro admin is to gain more users, then you want to think about what people see when they use your product. Look at what Ubuntu did with Unity; that's about all the proof needed. Sure, an end user can remove Unity and install GNOME 2 or XFCE or whatever, but the point is that a distro is simply a set of choices that some admin has made. They have to be good choices if the distro wants to survive.