I'm of a similar opinion - I haven't heard of many who utilize both streaming and DVDs to their full potential. I used to stream 99% of my content and very rarely added a DVD to my queue. Eventually I realized it was the same price and easier to just switch to the existing $7.99 all-streaming package and pay $2 here and there to VUDU for those odd movies that weren't on Netflix streaming. I've been very happy with that arrangement so far.

ATM has machine in it's name? Kinda like how we get stories about Hasselhoff because he was in Knight Rider. Wait... that doesn't sound right

I concur. Original post is dated 2008... so their prediction is now 7 years away, making it made up

I think the JavaOne experience sums up the current state of Sun and Oracle nicely.

This year's JavaOne was pretty disappointing compared to previous years and many of us Java enthusiasts felt a little unwanted. Most of the focus was on hardware, which we didn't care about at all. Little of the content was geared towards a technical audience. The tech demos of past years were hushed into side rooms, replaced by celebrity meet-and-greets with Lance Armstrong, Apolo Ohno, the Black Eyed Peas, and a yacht racing team.

Someone must've been aware this would have a poor reception from the Sun crowd because they quarantined us away from the Oracle Open World groups much of the time and fed us uncanny amounts of free beer and vodka. The open bar seemed to be specially coordinated to just before and during Ellison's speeches about how lock-in is awesome.

When it came to the actual sessions, the speakers were great but there were moments where you could tell they were intentionally leaving things out. I believe it was a session with eBay's Randy Shoup where someone asked what App Server they ran on and he alluded to not being able to answer that since it "looked a lot like Tomcat." Of course the absence of Google was noticeable as well.

There's a little war going on inside Oracle right now between trying to mesh traditional Oracle marketing and lock-in to the Sun people who dreamed of openness and interchangeability. Obviously the two are ideologically at odds and all the liquor in San Francisco didn't help that. They're certainly trying to make it work and that's commendable but so far the result has just been many of the Sun people walking away. Sun's assets were as much the people and their mission as their patents and products. Oracle has so far ignored that half of Sun and it is rapidly hemorrhaging.

http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Marketing%20Liquor

I use Grooveshark but they charge $3/mo for their mobile app as well. Pandora is still good and free, though

I had the same question and a friend of mine who owns one says his 2 big killer features are the battery life and the instant on. In his case, he likes to play games (Angry Birds, Plants vs Zombies) around the house, read ("especially on the toilet," he claims), and do quick lookups of movies and pop culture references while watching TV. Apparently for those uses, the instant on and long battery life make it a better fit than the smaller-screened phones and wait-for-boot netbooks. In my case, I don't mind using my phone for the searches, netbook for games, and ebook reader for reading. That being said, when the netbook and e-book reader start getting outdated, if I can consolidate them into one device I'd consider it.

That's right! This was all done to serve the interests of Teen Vogue and Brides! The conspiracy continues...

Sort of. The dress code states you must smell agreeable throughout the day. They mention using extra deodorant throughout the day if you perspire excessively, that you cannot smell of cigarette smoke, and can't smell of strong foods. They recommend using perfume but just a little so as not to offend anyone who doesn't share your tastes.

Business as usual

I see what you did there

Looks like the patch only works if the OS has cgroup support, which was added in RHEL6. So for those of us who are using older distros, a kernel patch is the only fix.

There, fixed that for you

From the article: "There’s now little reason for these GNOME developers to recommend Ubuntu as an operating system."

So... slashdot did a good job?

Exactly what I thought. And I can imagine people waiting to buy more glasses, assuming the price on glasses will eventually come down.