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Matthew Inman has a decent pros and cons for his Apple Watch: http://theoatmeal.com/blog/apple_watch

The questions read like they were pulled directly from a The Oatmeal comic.

People are anti-Stallman because most people are pragmatists instead of idealists. I applaud the man's ideals. I'm willing to give up a certain amount of my time and treasure to promoting, using, debugging, and creating open source software. I don't consider user software freedoms important enough to be absolutist about. As you say, the primary benefit of open source is that it remains more valuable in the long run, and most people don't have the luxury of only considering the long run.

Personally, I think that distinguishing between open and proprietary licensing sounds simple and sensible. Stallman is in some important aspects a religious figure, and it's worth noting that being a saint or otherwise devoted to a moral principle is historically an excellent way to be stoned to death. Also, as a trivial UI change it's practically guaranteed to lead to weeks-long flamewars. In other words, it's pretty much the raison d'être of slashdot.

Same as the "let's throw things off the table and let the human pick them up" game, similarly enjoyed by small children.

My cat plays that game. When it's pissed off it sometimes hops on the coffee table and while looking me in the eye, shoves a magazine or my glasses of onto the floor. Sometimes it bats at my coffee mug, then looks at me as if to say, "Accept my demands or shall I take this to the next level."

I swear my cat is plotting to murder me.

No, your wrong.

What about his wrong?

The majority of cats don't eat the birds.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/e...

I think it's relevant enough: http://theoatmeal.com/pl/state... ... and if I can't google or otherwise circumvent my way to the content, I'm perfectly fine to go without it.

If the heat gets to 90 degrees then you have a much bigger problem on your hands, water is close to the boiling point.

Oh wait, I bet you're one of those people using the idiotic system.

Most people that hate on Columbus are using http://theoatmeal.com/comics/c... as their reference. The fact is most historical figures are not saints or devils, but people with complex motivations living in a world very different than ours. (disclaimer: I still think Columbus wasn't a "good" guy.)

Many birds have four color receptors. Some have five.

Mammal eyes suck. Primates have about the best color perception of all mammals, and even the best is still pretty poor by bird standards.

It's not so cut and dried, actually. A lot of colour vision requires processing in the cortex so there isn't necessarily a clear cut relationship between the number of cone classes and an animal's colour acuity. A great example is the mantis shrimp which has a large number of different cone classes yet has crap colour vision. I don't know what bird colour acuity is or how it compares to our own, but don't assume it's necessarily better because they are tetrachromats. For instance, the wikipedia says that pigeons are pentachromats but they may not have access to the fifth channel. Many birds also have colour oil droplets in front of some photoreceptors in order to further tune their range. In effect, this may give them more than 4 cone classes.

This is why I tell folks unless they are doing something where they have to have a mobile computer? Buy a desktop, hell even if they have to have a mobile computer they are often better off buying a cheap desktop AND cheap laptop than trying to do it all on a laptop because of the compromises required for the insane "thin is in" trend we are getting pushed by the OEMs.

Remove the crazy low temps that mobile devices have to hit? You can have a computer that can play Titanfall on an APU that costs just $36 bucks shipped. Spend an extra $16 for the 5350? You can run just about any game out there on low, which means in the real world you can do every task your average user does in a day, from MSO to 1080P video, and have a nice experience doing so. Of course that is what happens when you remove the insane-o temp barriers the mobile devices have, you remove the boat anchor and let the chips really stretch their legs.

But the dirty little secret in the PC biz is as I've been saying for years, which the numbers back up is that for Joe and Jane Average? That first gen C2D or Turion X2 laptop is more than good enough for what they do,surf the web, play FB games, check webmail, we've had multicores for a decade now so more and more are finding they just don't need to replace until the unit wears out. Even Apple's much discussed and lampooned "gotta have the new model!" fanboys seem to be thinning out as they find their last gen Macbooks and iPads do everything they want them to do.

To use a car analogy its like having a Ferrari to drive to the store while the car lot brags " Come buy the new Ferrari, with 20% better gas mileage and 15% more speed!"...we already got more than we need now for the tasks at hand, thx anyway.

I think you might want to look up 'literally'.

Or examine this helpful comic.

Well I'd like to be as tactful as possible here, but there's not much bush to beat around: you absolutely can use a semicolon after Samsung. Here's a great reference on semicolon use. You can use it lowercase that "P" in your signature that's been inappropriately capitalized. ;)

They'll never learn if you keep helping them convert in their kid-friendly system.

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The citation isn't needed not because that rant-with-a-personal-slant didn't require citation, but because it's off-topic. I'm not sure how his comment got modded 'Informative' - unless this is not Slashdot, but Buzzfeed, or Us magazine or some other gossip rag.

Without defending whatever nastiness went on in his restaurants, how does that relate to malware being on a website? It's highly unlikely that he personally oversees the restaurants, and even less likely that he personally oversees the website. At best one can fault him for having certain ideas about how to run things, that in turn lead to both restaurateurs and webmasters cutting corners and dropping the ball.

What's next? A report comes out about Forbes being hacked ( http://www.forbes.com/sites/th... ) and we point out how they let an article that was then vastly criticized by its subject ( The Oatmeal - http://theoatmeal.com/blog/tes... ) through as some sort of 'goes to character and general reputation'?

Obligatory Oatmeal: How a Web Design Goes Straight To Hell.

I would be more worried about the damage cats do to bird populations. I have not problems shooting feral house cats or any house cats I find out in the woods, and I have shot a number of them. With so many people worried about invasive non native species I'm surprised more attention isn't given to all of those feral house cats. Those stupid things are substantially more destructive than most other non native species but yet because cats are kept as pets people get upset about dispatching feral ones.

The protestant british did far, far more damage the the New World that any other culture did. They hunted to extinction several bird and mammals, sometimes killing just for fun, and genocided practically all native population, exiling the remaining ones to small reserves. Rather than repent from their atrocities, they celebrate them even today and call it "Thanksgiving".

On the other hand, the christian priests that arrived to America denounced the mistreatment of natives and even did everything in their hand to protect them. As a result, most of south america is descendant from the natives that inhabited the land before the spanish conquistadores arrived. Read more about it on the oatmeal

Obligatory TheOatmeal comic: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/water

Driverless cars open up huge possibilities. Think of long distance trips, where the drive is eight hours.

Uhhh... no, these are NOT designed for long-distance trips. Their max speed is 25 MPH, so that eight hour trip would take more like 20 hours. And with the current 100 mile range, you would need to recharge four times for that trip, making it more like several days.

Think of driverless cars as not replacing real cars, but replacing the bicycle for when the weather is bad or when you don't have the physical fitness to pedal one for much distance.

Yup I agree... and for good measure:
http://xkcd.com/488/
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/g...

The Oatmeal posted a review of the car and state of Google's technology in general:
http://theoatmeal.com/blog/goo...

Still relevant, still funny...

Looking at your Fitbit data, we can only conclude that you're a sadistic bastard.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/m...

If you were paying for [original streaming television series] directly, expect to pay what HBO charges

Hence HBO's recent announcement of plans to expand HBO Go into a standalone over-the-top service, because people have shown themselves willing "to pay what HBO charges", just not what the local multichannel pay television provider charges.

The Oatmeal discusses this in depth: http://theoatmeal.com/blog/ani...

obligatory theoatmeal, http://theoatmeal.com/comics/g...

A large portion of what I watch actually happens to come from HBO, but regardless I end up downloading the content like anything else. Classic example, I purchase a season of the Vikings from google play store in advance b/c I do not own cable but would like to watch the show legally (even a day late from when it aired). I get a notification that a new episode is available. I click play "Last week on Vik...." stream breaks. Hit replay, "Last wee...." stream breaks. Hit replay, "Last week on ..."stream breaks. Download episode via bittorrent in 3 1/2 minutes and enjoy.

I'm happy to pay for content, but make that shit work.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/m...

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/t...

There are many reasons to stop celebrating Columbus, not the least of which is because he was a murderous bastard

Replace Columbus day with Leif Erikson day or Bartolomé de las Casas or something. Anything.

/Oblg. "What it is like to own an Apple product" comic ... http://theoatmeal.com/comics/a...

I think Louis C.K. said it best:

"People say 'My phone sucks.' No it doesn't. The shittiest cell phone in the world is a miracle. Your life sucks, around the phone."

Since most sites are blocked at work, here's theoatmeal drawing of it.

once released under public domain some hacker somewhere builds a website shows tons of content under public domain, links to youtube then claims ownership and DMCA takedowns original content and runs with as much cash as they can turn over from people who paid for access to what content they provided.

it's happened before... to http://theoatmeal.com/ and he didn't even release as public domain.

I use Steam. No problem with their type of DRM and online requirements for me to useir single-player games.

However, I refuse to play in co-op, because the other players are inevitably foul-mouthed 15-year-olds that can squash me like a bug, or stab me in the back.

It's fun for them, but not for me. I'm 52, and love gaming, but not in a co-op world. I have spent a LOT of money on gaming. Much more than said 15-year-olds.

If all the new games force co-op, then I really am done gaming.

Pity.

Most of the planet does, it's not our fault you're still using a measuring system that seems designed for little children.

I imagine the conversation will go much like the last 3 frames of this comic

When I completed the survey, I was instructed to hotlink the image. My understanding of copyright and contract law is that permission to hotlink does not imply permission to rehost nor vice versa. And according to a page on the author's web site, there is no clear way to contact the author.

You want to publish some of his images on your site, right?

From the bottom of the contact page:

Business Opportunities
Please direct all licensing, publishing, advertising and other business related inquiries to my publicist filter@theoatmeal.com

When I completed the survey, I was instructed to hotlink the image. My understanding of copyright and contract law is that permission to hotlink does not imply permission to rehost nor vice versa. And according to a page on the author's web site, there is no clear way to contact the author.

It seemed safer than leaving it out,

The rules are very simple, and as a foreigner this is how I remember a a lot of these things:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/a...

Somehow I remembered the panels where the guy goes to the ATM and sells his family when I read this news:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/a...

The problem is the media corps are such douchebags and continue to shoot themselves in the face by overcharging like mad for their content so that yet again the one that pays for content actually REQUIRES crap like canistream.it just to try to find which of a half a dozen services have the content they want to watch that day while the rest of the world just goes to a streaming site based in idontgiveafuckistan and gets ALL the content in one convenient place.

When are they gonna learn that trying to squeeze that last Shekel and making the content a fractured mess makes piracy all the more appealing and their content that much less appealing? All it takes is a few moments like this for people to say "fuck this mess" and once they figure out how easy it is to find the content hosted in copyfree land? you lose them forever. I used to think that old joke about corps would rather have no money than less money was an exaggeration...not anymore, because it seems like every time we turn around you have dumb shit like needing canistream.it just to find what SHOULD be the same on all the major legit sites...dumb, just fucking DUMB.

Exactly.
Moreover, he gets a lof of free publicity from people thinking he's cool (e.g. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/t...)
I'm not even sure he needs to wait very long to get profit out of this decision.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/a... Read it, dammit!

Actually, both Adams' and Adams's are acceptable. The Oatmeal has a nice summary of how to use the apostrophe and covers this.

Don't believe The Oatmeal? Google it. You'll find plenty of style guide references citing one or the other as the correct form.

We live in a world where literally yesterday a woman was stoned to death by her family for failing to live her life they way they wanted.

This was a USA incident that some would say implicates western civilization so, let's talk about something that's actually relevant, ok? Approximately 45 murders occurred in the USA yesterday. Approximately, 76% of the victims had penises. Please advise me on which class of the human animal is more vulnerable in Western civilization.

There is literally no way to win as a woman

Rational Moe would like to point you towards THE OATMEAL so that any writings you may do on the web or elsewhere will not be infected by your misuse of the English language. But Irrational Moe ..... fuck you, you're fucking stupid, pathetic, and your thoughts are unforgivabley naive and sexist. You are, obviously, not a nerd. You are a vapid twit with a sinkhole between your legs. Go find your nearest porno shop, buy a dildo, stuff it up next to your cervix, and stop leaking your pussy juice all over slashdot.

I'm not a native speaker and I still often make mistakes in English, but I cannot understand how people can mix those up : then/than, your/you're, its/it's, there/their/they're.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/m...

Nice piece by The Oatmeal about why he loves his Tesla. It's a lot more than the battery. "think outside the box" is a trite meme, but Tesla has done it, with impressive results.

Obligatory Oatmeal