"There are lots of reasons email persists, even as faster and simpler forms of communication proliferate..."
Lost me at "faster".

My Pay as you go $40/ month is still 2Gigs. Rising tide it ain't

Here's a similar comment raised in a Linux/UNIX Dev post (context). I'm not the one to answer, but I am interested in the difference between the two.

http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

>> If you troll and do things that people don't like, you are bound to get a lot of negative feedback. Your own remarks a a fine example of this.
> It's fascinating how in the digital age people have lost sight of this.

This seems so confused to me. No one has lost sight of this. You can't post into any forum, join any community distro, with the intention of receiving or giving help without coming in "with your hat in your hand", so to speak (more for the former than the latter, actually). What happens afterwards depends greatly on moderation and the culture. In an anarchic culture you're lucky if you can give as good as you get.

And that's exactly the confused and mighty culture which was needed to make competitive products with juggernauts the ilk of Microsoft.
Who would 'av thunk it possible 20 years ago?
Technologies are maturing.
People grow up.
They don't want to fight tooth and nail--all the time.

Or so I thought. It has something to do with my router setup. Whatever.
But my point is it sucks!

Its not like its always slow. Instead I'll be surfing the net, and without warning a link will throw up my cable company's Could Not Find URL error page. If I look at the ping, there are these crazy large time lags. Rather than it taking a long time for the page to load, its as if the internet became SMALLER. The I have to WORK slower. And then, just everything is back to normal.

I sometimes think MY Kindle isn't mine because the GUI makes it easier to buy more books than it does to search and use the one's I have.

Oh, and all the ads!

WSOD? http://civic.mit.edu/blog/nate...

I've managed to keep my machines in service well past the updates in OS. If Apple products really go on the fritz near the time of new releases, they've been doing it for a long time.

Plus some VM's don't properly pass control to the outside world. I've had some USB peripherals just plain not work when I tried to move them to a VM with a supported OS. I've had mixed success with some USB to Serial adapters. Some work. Some don't. What works is that old system that still runs that external device just fine!

Plus then there's the use the new like the old mentality when you finally do end up replacing it. You replace it, but nothing actually gets more efficient or better. So why change it?

No tech "journalists" did not. The media did.

One thing wrong about this is taking people on Twitter's word for it. Twitter and other social networks are the web equivalent of everyone shouting OMG ponies except it's not ponies.....

Not really fair as the head chef is probably already in the kitchen preparing for breakfast for people who want to eat at 7 am.

Try paging the head chef at 2 am right after he closed the restaurant....

If you, as a head chef, make a mistake it costs you what? Maybe 100-200? If we as server techs and admins make a mistake it can cost millions....even billions. I'd take the stress of being a head chef any day.

Money like that can create a lot of problems too. It's not always about money. Who cares if you make 6 figures if you can never go to a kids event because you are going to be pulled away for some stupid stuff.

The answer to that might be important depending on where it is. For example, if it's a Christian school they might want to actually know if you are a Christian. I can see not asking if the company is a secular one and the asking isn't really the issue as far as I am concerned....it's if they reject you because you don't have the same one where it becomes an issue....IF it's a secular business.