Considering their new beta plan screwed up a lot of sites for bands, I think the migration numbers are not only right, but also will increase as more bands move to other social media platforms. The only reason I even think to go to Myspace is because some band has made it their landing page. If Myspace continues to be hostile to the only group that keeps it alive, they will have no choice but to go away.

Considering IE6 has had an unduly long life in today's software world, it's no surprise. There are still businesses out there that rely with almost thumb-sucking adherence to keeping their sites IE6 compatible.

I'm firmly in the camp of letting IE6 have the browser wars, and letting it graze peacefully into the great software pasture in the sky, but alas, we're nowhere near that area yet.

Exactly my point. Jeopardy is still a figurative nut to crack. Just because it beat a human at a contest doesn't mean that no-one will try to perfect it. What we saw was remarkable, but it's still a hard problem. When we see a computer play a perfect game of Jeopardy every single time, then we can consider the problem completely solved. Until then, the chase is afoot!

Right, because Deep Blue spanking Kasparov totally ruined chess for everyone else. ;)

I'm pretty sure it won't be quite the same, but I'm sure they'll manage.

I'd say the person involved needs to save up that Hamburger Helper money and order pizza.

So, essentially the bottom line of AOL is bolstered by "inertia"? Is there a compelling reason why someone hasn't told the investors and / or the people getting bilked?

I'm starting my patent application for a one-way relationship where I intensely dislike a particular entity for their ass-hat methods of scooping up obvious, real-world-inspired situations and turning them into something it calls "intellectual property".

So, it's going to be yet another useless publication in an already crowded arena? I mean, Dr. Dobbs is pretty much a parody of itself, and there's few print magazines that are worth the time investment to even open the magazine. What's this new iteration going to provide, other than a stark reminder of the mojo that Byte magazine no longer has?

... and home of the paid.

In other words: Please stop devaluing our property! We need these users on here, or we won't make the millions, er... thousands, er... hundreds of dollars in selling it off to someone else!

Java is still a viable concern because of inertia. There are a lot of companies that bought into Java, J2EE, and the rest that are still going to be using Java regardless if Oracle mandates every developer wear a silly hat and pray to Larry Ellison 3 times daily. And again, Redmonk is a developer-based tea-leaf reader; nobody in business will care what developers fancy as the next big thing, because Java is here in their datacenter making stuff work now.

Sad to say, but even if every single current Java developer swore off never to code another line, there would still be Java out there, and folks ready to learn to take their place. COBOL didn't need a community, and Java won't either.

Beg pardon, but I pretty much see Apple dropping Java support as telling, rather than a bad thing. It means Apple is looking to control all ends of the development chain.

Because communities cost money to maintain. Oracle doesn't care about whiny developers; they only care about the bottom line. Developers will use what they're told by their management. Period. End of story.

As much as Oracle is an anathema to what developers and techies hold dear, until Oracle starts to see some damage to the bottom line, they won't care one iota.

Anyone remember Sea Man on the Dreamcast? This is definitely in the same "creepy games that are technical marvels, but not terribly fun" category.