Now that's interesting! I've been a happy ATI customer for many years and been using Linux for parhaps even more years, but I'd say the exact opposite: "My next video card's going to be an Nvidia most likely". Sure, ATI drivers don't really crash as often as they have been, but for a window to take 4 seconds to resize, is a bit much. So no Nvidia and no ATI... then what's left? Intel? S3? 3D Labs?

Like when Micky J died.... somewhere (I guess it was BBC, not sure though. Maybe someone can help me here) there was a list of n-facts about Michael Jackson.
The article said: 750Million albums sold. He made $700Million during his lifetime. Errr.... 750m albums / $700m $1/album. I don't know about you, but I haven't seen albums being that cheap. So where did the rest of the money go? I'm guessing not to the people putting their "sweat and tears" into it.

Did you RTFA? They've rounded up several figures during their calculations. You're using one single point (out of, what, 5?) a straw man fallacy.

Maybe that's just weird because "burger building", "Rock Band" and stuff like "Games" are connected to FUN. While Windows is...well.... you catch my drift

Comparing it to Microsoft's Windows is ridiculous at best. Windows is a monopoly while, even though there a sh*tload of iPhones around, the iPhone isn't. Also, Microsoft has the same track record, though maybe not as obvious as the App store. Microsoft has done countless attempts to deal with these competitors and have locked them out on multiple occasions through not opening up all information and pushing their own services to the user (msie or msn anyone?). How is that any different?

If you don't like the services that are available on the iPhone, then don't buy an iPhone and get one of the many other neat smart phones out there. In the case of Windows that's nearly impossible (though becoming more and more easy every day)

That's exactly what I mean. The fact that it looks more like America doesn't mean it's better. Money and power are not always "better", but Americans will probably never understand that.
In more recent events; have you been to Iraq lately? My point exactly. Would you say they've really improved since America started poking around (again)?

Sure, don't let FACTS get in the way. Like the fact that the USA is making money with their wars (EU buying planes built in the USA, leasing bombs, etc, etc).
" protect all of the other countries"? WW2 was the last time the Americans actually did defend (although that too is debatable). All the other wars were the Americans forcing their view on other people. Don't give us your patriotic brainwash crap about America defending the free people.

That's funny; all you can remember of the person complementing you on your Japanese was that she was a woman. You know; belonging to "the group of women". That's what people do; they judge. They always have and always will. People put other people into little boxes with "the others". That's how we humans operate. Saying that judging people on appearance is racism is just plain ignorance.
Now using that process to actually hate people or do people harm would obviously be wrong. Simply because of the hate or harm part of the sentence, not because of which box you're using for it.

I'd suggest storing a certain clip from Rick Astley on a DVD :)

Anyhow, to at least have some understanding of what IO we'll have in 16 years, we'd have to look back 16 years. What did we have back then? Floppies were mainstream and CD-ROMs were starting to appear. HDDs obviously, but I wonder if those interfaces are going to be around for much longer. You could question whether USB would be still be available by that time (some examples of ancient IO can be seen above, in someone elses post). My guess is something like Bluray would probably be your best guess. Why? Because there's a huge industry behind it that sees value in keeping that product alife for awhile. USB is a relatively easily discarded interface which is upgraded constantly and there is no proof it will be backwards compatible in 16 years. The Film industry will most likely force already-ancient things like Bluray to be available in 16 to 20 years. If that industry hasn't died by then, that is...

Now all NICTA needs is an aproved website!

I don't trust authorities that talk about quality and standards while not supporting them themselves.

W3C on their http://nicta.com.au/:

Errors found while checking this document as XHTML 1.0 Transitional!
Result: 72 Errors, 1 warning(s)

Or just use Plausible deniability, like Rubberhose: http://iq.org/~proff/rubberhose.org/

Sure, then you end up with two monitors that can't really work together and are not customizable.

The issues you're referring to are all driver related. The fact that both nvidia and ATI have already been releasing win7 drivers for months while still screwing around on Linux should make it all clear; It's about the drivers and the hardware guys just don't care about Linux enough yet. That's not the fault of the OS; it's the hardware a$$es not opening up their drivers.

As for Linux vs Windows for multimonitor: Until about a year ago this was definately a problem on Linux as the drivers did not support it well enough. It works quite well actially. Also, setting up multi monitor does not cover "use a machine with 2 monitors". The actual usage, once it has been set up, is the most important part (which you're ignoring). Windows is not prepared for a multidesktop/multiscreen setup. It never has been. Linux on the other hand is quite different. Nearly all desktop managers support multi monitors properly. Ever tried multi monitor setup and opening up new windows? Windows pop up in the middle of the two screens sometimes, which is bloody irritating. The fixed task bar can not properly be split up between the two monitors and one who would want only programs on that perticular monitor to be in the taskbar on the monitor are completely screwed.

Why not build a huge cage around the darned things (if the bats are able to see it though)

Or what about just using one of those proven power generators that do not kill animals, like nuclear reaction?

We DO know the context; it's a flippin' webadmin site! How hard can it be to write it in proper HTML/CSS/whatever?!

Chances are 90% of it was stolen from Open Source PHP stuff anyway.

As Opera has been complaint to most standards for years, while it took other browsers years to do the same, it is the websites that have the incompatibilities, not Opera.

Driving your nice little environment degrading Toyota Prius to Germany and finding out they have trimmed all branches of trees so that only VW, BMW, Merc and Audi can pass through without being scratched would probably upset you just as much as your statement would to any Opera supporters. And you would not be blaming Toyota, you'd be blaming the German government. Why does the word rationale mean something completely different when it's about IT?

Also, afidel's post is far from "right-on", as he/she/it too makes at least two assumptions (while debunking someone elses!): Opera being an insignificant browser; you're forgetting all mobile devices here. And Opera's request being insignificant. Judging from what's Opera's requirements are, I'm assuming (see, there's one!) they're ready to order some very serious amounts of high-end server stuff.