Why squeezed down to 640x480? And what's the trick here? I bought a 37" TV two years ago that has VGA, HDMI, and DVI inputs, and it cost 400USD. It does 1360x768 native. Cheaper now for something bigger; much cheaper for something smaller.

I mean, come on, my laptop and netbook have HDMI and VGA out; hell, even my phone does! This is easier than hooking up a VCR. In my case.. we've had a $400 PC hooked up to the TV for ~5 years. Only reason it cost that much is because we play games on it. WoW, Starcraft2, Portal, .. Zelda64 :) etc etc. We don't have cable, just Hulu and the greater 'net. It's our DVD player, and we end up ripping most of the kids' DVDs to xvid anyways so we don't have to worry about scratches. Then there's Boxee, MythTV, XBMC, take your pick. Remote control, wireless game controllers, yada yada. Oh yea.. all on Ubuntu, and the wife uses it?

It's no secret...

Did I mention I'm typing this post on the TV.

I'm probably not taking all the above numbers into account accordingly, but I think there are plenty of factors to consider. Businesses continue to upgrade from Server 2003 to 2008 in the past year; this should contribute to growth of Win Server sales. I'm seeing plenty of our 2003 systems finally look to upgrades as hardware comes up on renew. We're still moving clients off Exchange 2k3. The second point, and always a point I think for Linux - we'll purchase a blank server, toss a hypervisor on it, then proceed to install numerous VMs with varying flavors of Linux with varying function. None of those installs or OS sales are recorded in the above figures. Not to mention that the hypervisors are Linux, be it VMWare, Xen, KVM, etc. And of course the move to x86 hardware continues as virtualization penetrates the datacenter and clusters of commodity hardware replace big iron.

What you're suggesting would certainly end up having some relation to GWT

I used to drink a lot a have a great time with the night life. Now I have three kids and a more-than-full-time job. I'm lucky if I can get down two beers in a night.

Sigh!

Way off-topic, but I think you have the lowest UUID I've seen yet in comments :)

Odd, it seems like you're describing the world today, as opposed to the world 10 years from now.

The math, while quick and dirty, can be used as another reference (among many used and generated) when estimating capacity and growth for similar social-based sites and applications.

I'm wondering about input methods. I was pretty reliant on a joystick when I played Vendetta Online. I enjoyed the dogfights; good control, good play. Are they developing a touch interface for the game?

We went with MAudio Delta 1010 cards for recording with Ardour and associated tools. It started out on a system with a Sempron processor and 512MB RAM; songs averaged 25 tracks, and drums were recorded live on 6 separate tracks. There were no performance issues.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1275379&cid=28397147&art_pos=25

I won't argue the fact that ProTools is industry standard :)

This may have some relevance to the above comment.

Ah, I was just reminded of GeoWorks. Ran that on my Tandy 286, circa 1991.

Hopefully those with equally deep pockets can now focus their efforts on making this potentially new open source standard video codec better.

This article actually made me wonder, for the first time... if the problem with Netflix on Linux is DRM, could they ship us a disc that would allow us to use Netflix streaming on Linux, just like they're doing for PS3 and Wii?

Facebook did turn a profit last year, earlier than predicted:

http://www.marketingvox.com/facebook-sees-profit-on-target-for-500m-year-045281/