I mean tightly control their licensees, so the market isn't flooded with crummy apple clones. Not talking about the technology, here!

Back then a computer was $4000, which included significant margin. Nowadays, computers (yes, even Macs) are much cheaper, and the margins are lower. Apple sells a new copy of OSX every year to most of its customers, with or without a new computer. This could make them money, if tightly controlled.

I'll be really surprised if Apple doesn't agree to simply make a deal with Psystar to manufacture clones for a licensing fee. It isn't that radical - Apple licensed Mac clones back in the late 80s - early 90s (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone#The_first_Macintosh_clones ). My uneducated guess is that Psystar has been negotiating for a licensing agreement for a long time, and then calculated that an outright court battle would land them a better deal than paying the fees initially suggested by Apple.

That or they're a fly-by-night outfit.

Worked under 6.0.5 as well, as long as you have the VT extensions enabled in the BIOS.

What does this have to do with the Mesa and X.org teams? They're graphics guys, and this isn't for graphics. I'd like to see inclusion in GCC (auto-vectorization maybe?) though.

You probably missed the part where NMap is open source.

Can I humbly recommend LOTRO? Its very WOW-like, but prettier and somewhat slicker. My coworkers and I have all switched over, and are quite happy with a new world to explore.

The LOTRO UI pretty much just works. I haven't felt a burning need to customize any of it. This is a Good Thing, because casual gamers are not going to customize - if the default UI sucks, then the game appears to suck.

Not being able to find the network panel is a "show stopping bug"? I agree its in a weird place, but come on...

Call me an idealist (though most would call me the opposite) but... wouldn't it be better if we could use our capacity as a "rational species" to handle our own population issues? I'm hoping we can. If not, we'll hit the point where deaths = births fairly quickly anyhow. No need for your plague - this'll be equally unpleasant.

This came across as a surprisingly weird thing for a scientist to say. It is generally understood that pre-agricultural societies had far more free time than we do. It is also generally accepted that "love" is a manifestation of our natural pair-bonding instinct (which is now filtered, admittedly, through the modern notion of "romantic love" which has been around since the late middle ages). The quote seems to imply that we're not sure if they had gotten around to having emotions yet, which is rather rediculous.

Thanks. As a GPL user, I also cringed at that comment. RMS's only real mistake is turning the GPL into an ideology. Ideologies only serve to polarize people. It's freaking SOFTWARE for crying out loud.

Having said that, I don't like when people rip me off, and I don't like it when people take credit for my work. The GPL prevents that, while the BSD license does not.

You know, i'd figure this to be true, but I am NOT one of those people... and I loved both GOW games (just finished 2 yesterday).

My other favorites are the Civilizations, Zeldas and Final Fantasies, although I am a fan of well-done games period. And Gears are very, very well done games. Yes, they're on-rails shooters, and yes the characters are super-macho. But damn do they get the heat of combat down straight, and the pacing and strategy (yes, there is strategy) are just perfectly tuned.

The thing is, reality often has a bias. Sometimes the media tries to create an artificial one, to great detriment (see: the "controversy" over global warming when in fact there really isn't one.)

Maybe there was just more bad stuff to say about McCain (and particularly his VP pick). Or maybe they were easy on Obama, this is also possible, granted.