What they're selling is the ability to play the latest games on maximum settings without ever having to upgrade your computer (or even have one - did you miss the very cheap hardware version they have for TVs?). You can even e.g. play Crysis from your netbook (or iPhone, as shown). It sounds like it might be worth it, depending on the price.

That said, I'm still very sceptical about the technical feasibility of the whole thing.

They attacked the soul tree as a preemptive strike. They knew the Na'vi tribes would attack and severely outnumber them if they gave them more time.

How is that going to work? If each site uses a different salt, it will produce a different hash for the same email, thereby defeating the whole purpose of Gravatar.

That was my point - you have to do it manually. It's inconvenient, especially if it's more than one level deep. If there were "hierarchical labels" that could have parent labels, that would be fine.

To clarify, consider this folder hierarchy:
leisure
leisure/Slashdot
leisure/Slashdot/reply-notifications
leisure/Slashdot/comment-moderation

If I add something under comment-moderation, with folders it is automatically also filed under Slashdot and leisure. With labels, I would have to manually add them. Additionally, labels are unordered, whereas a folder path is ordered - "foo/bar" may have a different meaning than "bar/foo".

I'm not arguing labels are bad, just saying they're not strictly better than folders.

Folders can have a hierarchy though. If an email is in foo/bar, it's also in foo. You can't really make that automatic with labels - you'd have to create a label foo, a label foo/bar, and manually add everything that is labelled as foo/bar to foo as well.

Just select slashdot manually a couple of times after typing "slash" and it will become the top suggestion.

2 minutes? You don't have to log out or your own session; just use the "Switch User" or equivalent functionality of your OS. I don't have a Guest account on this machine, but if I did I could be in it within 5 seconds, password typing time included.

I'm pretty sure 'libre' is exactly what he meant. See this.

Firefox is gratis software, but so is Opera. However, Firefox is also libre software, while Opera is not.

The test has a sort of animation of blocks appearing as the tests progress. This has to be smooth.

You can program for Symbian in C++, Python and Perl, but in fact I don't think you can in Java (J2ME doesn't count, as it's not using any Symbian APIs).

Having compiled a Qt app for my Nokia 5800 just last night (on Windows though) I can confirm that the GCC toolchain and Carbide.c++ do work with S60 5th just fine.

While PC Suite is fairly bulky, it's more along the lines of 50 MB, not 450. And let's face it, this is 2009. Even if it really was 450 MB it would hardly matter.

That said, it is rather annoying, but no one's forcing you to install it. In fact, apart from maybe backups/syncing and sending messages through it, you can do just about anything PC Suite can do with your favourite tool for the job.

To be fair, the original game is now dirt cheap, and so is TBC. I imagine TBC and WotLK will drop in price further when Cataclysm is released so the full thing will probably not cost significantly more than a standard game. Plus you get a free month with the game.

It's still expensive, of course, but not as much as it sounds.

You mean KDE's client. Konqueror is a browser and does not include an IM client :)

FWIW, Kopete is GPL, like Pidgin. Qt used to be GPL (until 4.5 when it was also released as LGPL) so you'll find all KDE software is GPL as well.

Wait, the iPhone doesn't? (This is a genuine question. I have a Symbian phone but have never even touched an iPhone)