"blocking hot linking of images" is primarily done to save bandwidth and to force people to view your page for whatever reason (most likely ad money). I would presume that the same Hulu ads would be streamed to you if you used Google TV so why care? It's the same bandwidth whether or not I use the website or Google TV. It's not like Hulu shows external ads on the pages its self.

From TFA: "Ironically, NBC -- one of the networks blocking Google TV -- offers a CNBC Google TV application for fans of its news channel."
This seems to clearly be a case of one hand not knowing the other hand is doing.

From T[o]FA: "Google TV isn’t totally a lost cause ... because of the generosity of Comcast ... streams just about everything to Google TV: ABC, NBC, Fox, all but CBS ... The ironic part is that the content seems to be provided by Hulu itself"
Wait... How many fucking hands do I have?

Sometimes I really wonder is these media companies are just run by pre-pubescent boys. Does someone have the invitee list to the CEOs' birthday parties?

[citation needed]

"Hello. Welcome to skype call testing services..."

or something like that. They have no excuse.

People keep telling me what movies I have to see. Thanks to you, I no longer need to see "Avatar" because I can just go corporation bashing whenever the topic comes up. Next on my list: The Matrix (original). Never seen it. Don't really wanna see it. But I "have" to see it. Can someone summarize that as eloquently as the Avatar summary above?

New mod option: +1 redundant

Didn't they do this on Mythbusters?

Does this now mean we can get more points on BOINC for finding ET?

You do realize that ARM is RISC and doesn't need/use microcode. "To keep the design clean, simple and fast, the original ARM implementation was hardwired without microcode" (Wikipedia) and to my knowledge it still is. It would up the power requirements considerably because you would have to have additional translation logic. It would defeat the purpose of ARM.

(someone correct me if I'm wrong, though)

Fixed

-- wikipedia

Being too young to know the 1950~1980 Motorola, to me the name "Motorola" is synonymous with Freescale and On-Semi. I just can't see them as a tech company, just a sore looser following in 's wake.

Mach Microkernel + BSD userland + Proprietary GUI != Linux

Mach Microkernel + BSD userland + Proprietary GUI != Unix either (if SCO has anything to say about it)

People stopped calling me for computer help when my response was "who should I bill for this?". Or when they left something on my desk and I threw it away.

For me it works like this: I only buy games from gog.com. They are DRM free. It's the complete game.

I've tried a couple different tests on the installer packages and found that the SHA1 sums match when purchased by different people; we can safely conclude that the files are not salted.

The other thing I do is look for open source games. If you like RTS games, then look at the spring engine.

On a different note, the spring engine suffers from OSS syndrome: it has waaaaayyyy too many configuration options. Some will see this as a bad thing, some will see this as a good thing.

I call the RIAA bad public policy.