There's actual volume. Who the hell is *buying* it? Some badly programmed robot?

You're opening your bananas at the wrong end.

You need to nurture your vestigial cynicism.

But then, you'd be a fool to believe anything written by any corporate advertising department, I guess.

Fixed! Hope that helps!

OK, smart-ass, where's the supported "install other OS" option on the XBox or Wii?

Consoles are all about copy protection and control by the manufacturer. Might as well buy an iPhone to run Android on.

This is SONY, folks.

This is a console, folks. If you want a computer, buy a computer.

If a user who goes through three levels of menus, opens an advanced configuration window, checks three checkboxes, and hits the 'A' key gets a weird error message for his trouble, that's a little bug.

1. If that error message refers to "H-Tilt", then that's a big bug no matter how many levels of menus you go through.

2. If a user can provide a reliably reproducible test case like that for the bug, then it's one you should have caught in testing.

People wouldn't need eyeglasses if documents didn't have small print! They should mandate a minimum 72 point type in all books and displays instead!

You've chosen the party that is all about coercion and not freedom.

As opposed to the party that is all about coercion and not freedom?

The way I see it, .net was yet another decent attempt at forcing Windows lock-in (and keeping already-locked-in partners happy and productive).

You see further than Miguel did.

Many many people pointed out that Microsoft was going to see Mono as nothing more than an opportunity to legitimize .NET, and do everything they could to lock people in to the "real" .NET platform... legally, socially, and technically.

And this is what has, in fact, happened.

WHAT DO YOU CARE ABOUT?

He was accused of attempting to strangle the guard, and that is what at least two large newspapers reported. That charge was proven completely fraudulent in the trial.

That he was not convicted of assaulting the guard is part of the proof that he did nothing wrong. Reporting that he was convicted of assault weakens his case in the court of public opinion... which may be the only chance he has of avoiding doing time over this travesty of justice.

No, I meant teabag. It's all Sarah Palin's fault.

*sigh*

Tempest in a teabag.

Remember how much Mac OS 7-9 sucked? One reason was that every application had to re-implement all kinds of resource management code that the OS normally took care of. Shared resources, and a CPU is a shared resource even if you have dozens of the things, just as files are a shared resource and managed by the OS even though you have hundreds of thousands of them, should be managed centrally.

This doesn't mean that the specific APIs devised to share single processors between hundreds of programs are necessarily ideal, but there's a hell of a lot of a difference between that and throwing up your hands and saying "let's just give each program its own VM".