It's the fax-machine effect, JPEG will be around forever because everything, and I mean everything, that creates, processes, manipulates, and displays images, speaks JPEG. If Jobs was still alive and decided that from now on iWhatever's were only going to do JPEG2000 (and it's not just for file size reasons, image quality is also vastly improved), you can bet that we'd have a surge in JPEG2000 adoption as soon as the first JPEG2000-only iWhatever was released.

(Personally I'd opt for JPEG-XR, which is more flexible than JPEG2000, addressing the 20-odd-years' worth of issues that have emerged since the original JPEG first saw widespread adoption, but since it was developed by Microsoft I'm nervous even mentioning it here. You never saw these lines, move along, move along...).

Why do you think he was called the chairman of Microsoft?

Yep, like GnuTLS, or Apple's SSL implementation. You know there won't be any bugs in those, or if there are they'll be very quickly fixed and not sit there unnoticed for years.

Actually two words, Zojirushi + Aeropress (specifically a VE-series Zojirushi). Beats a Keurig any day, and not DRM-able in any manner.

(If I'm being traditional and have the time I'll use a machinetta).

This sounds a lot like a submarine patent. The idea is that you file a patent on some generic idea, not necessarily realisable, and then continue it for years, sometimes decades, until the state of the art has advanced to the point where it can be realised. At that point your submarine patent emerges and you've now patented a field that others have spent years developing for you. The notorious Jerome Lemelson made a billion-dollar business out of this.

It'd never happen. I mean, that'd be like every country that had a German minority being invaded by Germany.

Julian has always had serious user interface bugs, for example he would take a laptop along to family Christmas dinners because he thought they were boring and didn't want to talk to them. Having said that, I know other geeks who are at least as poorly socialised, if not more so, than him. Unfortunately being a media personality he now has to put up with having his private life exposed, as does every other celebrity ever. In that case compared to the antics of Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, and an infinite lineup of others, he's pretty tame. And before everyone jumps on the bandwagon to criticise him, how many of you could have started Wikileaks?

Goto fail. Go directly to fail. Do not pass the signature check. Do not collect an error status.

No it doesn't. -Wunreachable-code is accepted as a compiler option, but it does nothing while making you think it's actually doing what it claims to.

(Yet another of the many reasons why the sooner clang/LLVM kills gcc, the better).

Visual Studio will detect and complain about this. So all Apple would need to do is switch to Microsoft Vis.... oh. Damn.

My biggest gripe is that when I put a DVD in it I get some error message about it being the wrong region. Even my $20 Chinese-made DVD player does better than that. How could Sony ship a product with a bug this fundamental?

It's all true then! Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face! And do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, children's ice cream.

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When Elsevier are doing it, it's called cloacaing.

DANGER DANGER DANGER DANGER!

Homepathic pet medicine can be extremely dangerous. I gave some to my cat once. Two days later she died of an overdose while drinking from her water bowl.