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I like Seth Godin's take on the ads: "[...] Vista and PowerPoint and Microsoft's other core non-game products are largely devoid of personality and are optimized to be sold to orga…

More like; Unless you restrict the use of a piece of software to a highly marketed and desired piece of hardware.

In this case doing better than the competition doesn't mean doing well. It doesn't even mean acceptable. I don't use any apple products and I don't really care either way, but sayi…

"She gets me going on purpose just so she can see my arms waving and the vein pop out of my head while I'm trying to describe this stuff. I don't think she really pays all that muc…

It always makes me smile when I get one of these on my Arch box. Especially when it claims to have found a critical virus in C:\Program Files\....

Canonical doesn't, gnome does. http://usability.gnome.org/

I agree. In a lot of cases it's a mistake to cater to inexperienced users by making your GUI 'intuitive'. The bulk of your users are intermediates and power users. A user interface…

I guess it's because almost every windows user is familiar with the button in the lower left corner nowadays. It's been that way for almost 13 years now.

Cuil does have some things going for it though. They have a great privacy policy and the category function seems to be working quite well. Hopefully the search results will improve…

Why not? The writing is pretty good and I always get a chuckle out of them. It's worth my ten minutes a day.

Exactly. Another factor when you subscribe to a lot of feeds is overlap. I subscribe to all sites I find interesting so more often than not the articles I probably wouldn't want to…

If growth isn't a concern why not force people to wait a certain amount of time after signing up before they're allowed to post? That way new users can get a feel for the community…

Nature, it seems, is the popular name for milliards and milliards and milliards of particles playing their infinite game of billiards and billiards and billiards.

I agree that Stallman's stab at the gates foundation is cheap and uncalled for. However, if you're going to write an article accusing someone else of FUD you'd better make sure you…

Why? Isn't a two way street between browser teams and web developers a good thing?

"I think the current copyright situation lets citizens do pretty much whatever they want" Share a song with some friends, create a mashup of two cool songs, use some music in a sho…