The evidence is that the amount of money that can be saved by various tort reform laws is approximately 2%:
http://www.nber.org/bah/2009no3/w15371.html
Even that article doesn't quantify the costs caused by what it calls "defensive medicine". These are tests and procedures done a doctor covering his ass rather than trying to diagnose and treat evident conditions.
I haven't tried it in about a year and half but the killer for me is complete support for LOCAL metadata embedded in tags. I've taken the trouble to find high quality artwork and lyrics for as much of my collection as possible. I've embedded this in id3 tags and for the bit of vorbis in my collection the tags they have. If a media player I'm trying to use goes searching the net first for this information and disregarding the tags that are RIGHT IN THE FUCKING MUSIC FILE then I don't have a use for it. Amarok 1.4 could be fixed with plugins but these plugins of course didn't work in 2.x. What's more, 2.x has extensively rich functionality for pulling this information from the net and sticking it in it's database (pray it does so correctly) but neither reads or (fully) writes the tags I put considerable effort into putting correct information into.
It should also be possible to display the artwork and lyrics along with the rest of the application's interface in a usable way. No four clicks to get to the lyrics.
Yes, yes, yes, Amarok does use the tags for Artist, Album, Track Name, etc. But like MANY players it doesn't (or least didn't?) even attempt to look in the metadata tags for artwork and lyrics. Guayadeque gets this right and Songbird/Nightingale also get this right if the excellent MLyrics plug-in is installed. I haven't found much else in Linux/BSD that does. Incidentally, someone else mentioned MPD. That doesn't handle this either.
The terms of sale aren't public. I wouldn't be surprised if leaving Nokia and MS alone aren't part of them.
The Berzerk sequel Frenzy is a Colecovision fave of mine. Aside from Donkey Kong, Coleco didn't get many of the top tier arcade licenses back in the day but they did get licenses for many of the offbeat arcade games. Ladybug, Looping, Mousetrap, and Venture are examples of these and the Colecovision ports were very good. Like the 2600, the Colecovision gets lots of homebrew love as well. Take an hour out with an emulator and snag a few roms. I was a 2600 kid myself but I played a lot of Coleco at friends' houses and loved quite a few of those games.
BTW, the Wii has a good emulator available for jailbroken consoles.
It might be. LibreOffice basically started off as GO-OO and one of the big distinguishing features was better DOCX support.
Suing everybody for everything is very much a Jobs initiative. In his biography, he infamously pledged to spend Apple's entire fortune to "destroy" Android for "stealing" "his" ideas.
Israel keeps at least two of their Dolphin class subs on patrol in the Mediterranean sea at all times. These boats are commonly believed to be nuclear armed. If true, then Israel can Second Strike Iran or anyone else who thinks blowing up Tel Aviv is a good idea.
Manufacturing of teenybopper idols isn't new. Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers is the first one I can think of. By the time we got to Leif Garrett and Menudo, the process of casting (as in casting agency) and productizing them was pretty much down to a science.
This is only because Microsoft is pulling every dirty trick in the book to make it so. They need the antitrust stick jammed up their asses again....hard.
Apple fans love that version of events but it just isn't so. The Blackberry-esque device was only one prototype. There were fully touch enabled prototypes being tested in the same time frame:
http://www.osnews.com/story/25264/Did_Android_Really_Look_Like_BlackBerry_Before_the_iPhone_
In those countries, they don't hand those stipends out for just being alive in breathing. They have systems that pretty much only hand them out to people who will take proper advantage of the opportunity. They also don't have the problems we do when it comes to being "elitist" and identifying the kids who are good at math and science and getting them ready for those stipends.
That is all.
It isn't the packaging tools that make Debian and the BSDs more consistent in package installation. If anything, RPM has more advanced features than either debs or ports. The Debian and various ports repositories have standard practices for naming, versioning, dependencies, and integration that are adhered to year after year. It is concern for the long term integrity of these package repositories AS A WHOLE that make them easy to deal with. But bullet point differences between Deb and RPM? Not so much.
Debian based distros also tend to limit themselves in how they diverge from the Debian Mothership and periodically resync in any case. I routinely port source packages between Ubuntu and Debian all the time. Since the naming and dependency maps don't diverge much, I mostly succeed at doing this. On the other hand, a SUSE SRPM isn't likely to port easily to Fedora absent a lot of low level surgery on the package metadata. Each RPM distro tends to be an island universe. Deb based distros all have Debian for a parent or grandparent hence the high compatibility at the source level.
For that matter RHEL and spinoffs like Centos and Scientific mostly achieve this as well though the experience is mostly like using Debian Stable without the option of (easily) backporting SRPMS from newer distros.
I believe you are talking about Hot Bulb engines.
The best things in life go on sale sooner or later.
