Just name the new programming language C-homsky (after this guy). All problems solved.

Did you miss the fact that there are "Google Goggles"? Have a look here. Guess what El Goog does with all those crummy pixel streams coming thru those shaky phone'cum'webcams? Right.

Item #9: No mobile platform support

'nuff said.

Okay, okay, so VSE 2010 does support WM7, but after VSE 2008 I've switched away from M$ completely.
I simply can't take a company which circulates memos 'internally' on how to defeat the competition by cheating (FUD, Halloween documents, 'embrace&extend' industry-standard protocols, pressuring PC vendors into shipping Windows with their kit, 'Windows tax' etc.) seriously, so I switched away years ago.

Well, I've run out of troll fodder for today, so I'll move on, if you don't mind.

You gotta be keylogging me...

Seriously (and partly OT): What the h*ll has happened to employees standing up for their rights to guaranteed privacy as long as they perform their duties?
Doubleplusirony. We're discussing govt involvement in software performance while being keylogged.
Whohaddathunkthat. Priceless.

Instead of ad hominem attacks (there must be a free-to-download template library for those methinks), try to support your own argument with facts instead.
On topic, here is a StackOverflow question (dealing with VSE 2008) whose answer may interest you. And yes, I have had to deal with Every One of the mentioned limitations, and there are more which aren't mentioned.
You can call me a cheapskate, to which I will reply that for all listed limitations, there are free (non-M$, non-Windows) alternatives available which suit me fine.

No, I would simply trademark 'infinity', define it as lasting 1 day, point out that it has now become equal to Aleph-0 since days are a countable set, and sue the pants off anyone who does anything which has any effect lasting longer than a single day.
This would destroy the patent system, give me full rights to any invention more than a day old, make me infinitely rich (for small measures of infinity not exceeding a human lifespan) and as a bonus differentiate between Jewish and non-Jewish mathematicians.
This should work, except for the little snag of trademarking 'infinity'...

I think CmdrTaco would agree.

s/market/mind/

Heck, add the g flag for all I care.
"If you need an X to do Y, why not buy an Y?" This is the mentality that spells D-O-O-M for Western civilization. I mean it. Go on with that way of thinking, and soon all of us will be puppets on strings of the manufacturers, who may happen to be located in Asia for all I know. Feng Xu flicks the switch and we all cry boo for our next batch of blipblips.

H.G. Wells may be right sooner than he thought. What do you want the world to look like? Divided between helpless consumerist Eloi and menacing manufacturing Morlocks?
The hell I don't!

Sad but oh so true.

We The People let stores like Circuit City, Handy Andy et cetera go out of business by not getting off our lazy butts and build stuff in our shacks (and found Apple fer cr|ssake). Now we're barely strong enough to click on a link on DealXtreme or Ebay.

Nowadays it's easier to get a datasheet for some electronic part at a bus stop in Chengdu, China (thousands of miles away from Shenzhen, mind you) than it is to get one from the farking HQ of its producer in the US of A. Personal experience.

Kids over there on the other side of the Pacific still have what it takes, they swap code snippets and app ideas on forums like many yankees swap movie quotes and celeb gossip. Again personal experience.

I could go on blathering about all this but I need to go get a hanky to wipe my tears. It's that bad. Wessies, it was nice knowing you, I'll come back on Museum Night to see a Kinect-enabled M$ fundraiser where you can fly the rrreal Wright plane all by yourself, watching your act on that nice whopping-ass 160" Samsung widescreen.
Me? no thanks, I'm going over to kung-po-kai-land to get my brains some real workout. And a massage, too.

Dope dealer: The first hit is free. Try it, you will like it!
Junkie-to-be: Thanks mate!
---time passes---

Thing hinted at in many posts above: yes your phone can do that, but you have to pull your (e-)wallet.
There are people out there that don't have a knee-jerk reflex action like: I want a BMI calculator, lets whip out the (virtual) plastic and get me a BMI app. Now lets get my local bus time table into an app, let's whip out the plastic again.

Back in the day, when people wanted their wood chopped, they went to the shed to get an axe, didn't pick up the phone to call for a woodchopper at $50 an hour.

Ahh those were the days...

s/tree of trust/web of trust/

There is a critical flaw in your argument.
We are talking here about documents constituting scientific knowledge, not kiddie porn or pretty pics.
The value of scientific knowledge increases when it is disseminated to a larger audience, since more brains can build more knowledge based on it, a classical example of a multiplier effect.

Instead, your reasoning points to a fundamental flaw in the whole process of artificial scarcity (of knowledge in this case), which decreases the total potential value of this knowledge, e.g. the profits the publishers make while limiting its dissemination can never outweigh the value of future work based on it were it disseminated freely.
This takes into account the added value by the publisher claiming peer review, as peer review can easily be verified by having the peers cryptographically sign the documents they review, and using the tree of trust as well as the citation index as a merit rating system. Both can be implemented in a modified BitTorrent tracker.

I'm really not in the mood for spewing citations, do a Google search on "artificial scarcity" or have a look at Wikipedia: Economic actions that create artificial scarcity

Publishers are long overdue in looking for a better business model.

There is only one business plan that is viable in the long run.

1 Work
2 Your
3 Ass
4 Off
5 Profit!!

In that order, no cheating. Those who doubt should watch the Asian tigers, especially China, now and in the coming years.
Yes, seriously. No, really, there's no way around it. And yes, thou should study. Hard. Aim for Engineering or Ph.D, preferably in combination.

Siiiiggghhh.

If people (inside and outside of the patent office) would spend less time burping up all that text and building those paper walls that don't do nothing in defending a (non-)idea (i.e. intellectual property), then those very same people could spend more time thinking up Actual Useful Stuff, like extremely low-power sensor networks to monitor the (destruction of the) environment, super-efficient solar panels, software that debugs itself, or even a cure for cancer for all I care.

Let's stop this BS while we still can, or lawyers will still be hitting each other over the head with boxes full of paper stained with toxic lawyeridaridosis while the planet boils away into oblivion under their feet.