Pfft. That's the best part of the entire Windows 7 UI. I counter that people who don't find it useful either don't know how to use it properly, or their specific usage isn't enhanced by it. Mine is, greatly.

People will end up watching whatever suits their personal biases. I find RT incredibly biased. Any given story/subject matter, I can tell you before it comes on how RT will report it. Of course, like you say, the same is true of everyone else, and Fox is the most obvious of all.

The problem with stations like RT/Fox, etc, isn't that there are incredibly obvious biased stories - that one finds certain stories are obviously slanted and can so discredit them isn't a valid excuse. Simply, because, any stories which they largely agree with and feed into their bias, they won't recognize as being biased even if they are. RT is very anti-Israel, for example. If a viewer is also anti-Israel, they won't recognize that bias on the stories, and don't realize they're only getting half the story or less. Arutz-7 is very anti-Palestine, and likewise, vice versa.

I think the only way to get a true picture is unfortunately to watch most of the majors, and BBC, and draw your own conclusions. Unless you're experiencing events first-hand, this is the best we can really do.

Navfree is a decent free offline GPS for the iphone. It's another which uses OpenStreetMap so it's not flawless, but personally I've had it find every address I've tried, every time. Avoids toll roads, etc.

Is it wrong that I found page 15 arousing?

Aaaand.. that's all wrong. The second poll option is more than zero and I forgot it while reading comments. Beginning self-flagellation... now.

The second poll option is "more than 1%". If it's less than 1%, you round down to zero, per the first poll option.

If you have 3 terabytes HDD (thats a low estimate, with all the HDDs most of us have lying around, you might have in the vicinity of 10TB, but lets go with 3 TB for now), 1% of that is 30gb (HDD manufacturer math, 1TB=1000GB). A 16 gig iPhone, for example, would still leave you well under 1%. A 32GB would just push them over, into the 1%. Many may have no USB sticks, as I don't.

If folks start including RAM - well, that'd just be silly. RAM isn't generally storage, although it could be used as such in particular setups.

It's quite easily concievable that a large number of people have less than 1% of their storage as solid state. My GF doesn't, even including her RAM. The 256Mb on her Nokia phone doesn't go very far.

BTW, Assassin's Creed is available DRM-free from GOG.com. http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/assassins_creed_directors_cut

No - the client for WoW ships with all world data and quest data. This can be simply mined out of the data files. The only things the server handles are NPCs and items. This is what the emulated WoW servers perform. With D3, it's a matter of creating the randomized dungeon structures, handling the loot, handling all the mobs and all the quests, all the drop rates, all the items and their stats. It can't be mined from the game data as it's simply not available. No doubt once statistics are available for average drop rates, monster levels, rare spawn rates, etc, it'll be eventually possible to put together this data to create private servers which function fairly similar to the online experience. It's unlikely the random dungeon creation will ever be the same as we won't ever see their algorithms, but again - a savvy designer could figure out a decent enough algorithm to emulate the experience. The point is simply that its in no way as simple as it is with WoW.

Naw, they formed a conglomerate organization for this case. The MPAA/RIAA didn't sue iiNet, "AFACT" did. It'll be trivial to simply disolve that organization as asset-less and avoid any costs.

If you've deprived me of food in my pantry or money in my bank account through illegal means, you've stolen from me, no matter what physical, mental or esoteric method you used.

Just Googled that! No, I had no idea it had that meaning in those countries. Where I grew up, it's used simply in reference to people whose ideas we consider silly or nonsense. Looking at the etymology, that's one of the ways term started, but it seems to have changed over the last 20 years in Britain and Australia, and for various different reasons (mainly involving prison slang). Okay.. insert some other non-insinuating term ridiculing his suggestion! :)

There are plenty of people out there who WILL outright steal your great idea. Just because the original author won't and has a personal hang-up about NDAs (he feels "untrusted".. what a nonce), doesn't mean NDAs are a bad idea. Most people don't care about signing an NDA. It's a regular part of the software business. Many, many times in my personal experience, both parties EXPECT an NDA from the outset, and a project isn't considered serious without one. Some programmers won't even sign on unless they DO get to sign an NDA, or else they know it's going to be a waste of their time.

Kony who? The media moves on faster than anything. Awareness in "the past couple of weeks" means nothing for two weeks time. You DO need legislation to prevent this, because otherwise it'd be right back again.

This story itself has been circular - comes up at least once a year for the past few years. Everyone gets all upset it about it then it dies down and companies keep doing it.

Her piano Edge of Glory on Howard Stern is pretty good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_GMgkcc2KM

Are you denying that ZnO has to be obtained prior to introduction as a fuel? Are you denying that most Zinc Oxide is produced from refinement of Zinc ores? Are you denying that the process cannot produce a 100% efficient fuel recycling method? Are you denying that almost all mining and smelting of zinc ores produces large quantities of carbon dioxide? If your answer to all these is no, then the only thing I don't understand is what you're opposed to in my post.