Both incorrect itself (or couldn't even be bothered with IMDB) and its assumptions are misquoted blogspam.

So, let's see, confirmed on Pixar's future agenda (as we know now);

Toy Story 3 (2010)

John Carter of Mars (2012)

1906

Plus speculation in Variety from several days ago about Monsters, Inc 2 possibly being Docter's next film that has suffered a little in the blogspam reporting (ie accuracy), resulting in the OMG SEQUALZ?!? meme we're soaking in today...

Also speculation: various rumored Mater spin-off movies from Cars. Yes, Larry the Cable Guy might get his own... vehicle (ouch). God help us all, but it'd be a goldmine.

One more note, Netalyzer sees my upstream at 6.5 megabits and downstream at 15 megabits -- which means that Netalyzer's traffic is being shaped by Comcast to give better appearance than reality (same deal with almost all of the "speed test" sites out there).

I guarantee you in Jacksonville, FL that via FTP, SMTP, AFP, WebDAV or BitTorrent you will never see upstream speeds faster than 45k / second after an initial 3 to 5 second burst, no matter what you might think you're paying for.

They're not redirecting DNS in my area of North Florida, but

Apart from their God-awful downtime (about an hour a day at around 3am EST)... ...and 1-hour almost instant disconnect if you're participating in a torrent they've flagged as unacceptable... ...and terrible upstream speeds (about 45k / sec after the first 3 second burst)... ...and random massive latency... ...and questionable traffic shaping... ...and "not really" unlimited internet...

They're ok-ish. Apart from being FUCKING EVIL. That said, the local cartel apparently hasn't gotten the same memo that caused TFA's seizure.

Ok, they suck compared to, say, Speakeasy in the old days, but AT&T hasn't upgraded infrastructure in my neighborhood to support DSL, so Comcast is quite literally the only game in town. Yeah, I'm 5 miles outside of downtown and I can't get DSL here because up until a few years ago only poor folk lived in these old houses and it wasn't worth the time. Same reason there's no cable underground in Jacksonville's downtown... Cox cable (at the time) decided only poor folks lived there in the 70s when they last dug up the streets.

Anyhow, apart from blocking non-comcast SMTP, here's all Netalyzer anomalies:

RPC (Port 135) blocked
NetBIOS (Port 139) blocked
SMB (Port 445) blocked
DNS resolver (Comcast DNS): 1700ms (!!!)

Nothing I'd flag as unacceptable apart from the DNS latency. I learned to get my own SMTP host on an alternate port years ago as blocking port 25 is standard procedure on most ISPs.

Controversy is a matter of taste.

If you don't want your kids playing GTA or playing pseudo-realistic war sims, don't buy 'em. Don't play 'em. But don't try and protect me from them either.

I never really understood, and I'm not sure I will ever understand, what makes some people take up a crusade expressly to abolish ideas that they find offensive that they could just avoid, in turn exposing themselves to a constant stream of something that they obviously can't stand.

Books, games, metal, hip-hop, homosexuality, religion, porn, weed... hell, even Macs. The list goes on and on. Almost all of of the hot buttons I can think of are often central to a person's identity.

Stop telling me how to live my life and get on with your own. I may not agree with how you choose to live your life, but I'll be damned if you make my moral choices for me.

Have your own kids, shield them if you must, and get back to me in 16 years with how well that turns out.

Think of your own damned children.

With the new regime at MS this last year or so came new advertising/marketing & PR partnerships. Aside from the occasional WTF (Seinfeld?), they've been doing a pretty good job as a whole.

As someone who was in the ad/pr industry for quite a long time I can tell you that:

1. The date has "leaked" reliably pretty much once a week on all the betas to date. Nothing's "leaking". They're disseminating the info virally to build buzz. It works, and that's ok.

2. Win 7 needs as much positive spin as it can get to offset the Vista catastrophe. The february beta was more stable and bug-free than Vista SP1... and to coin a phrase "it's Vista without the suck." They need to get the word out there, to as many folks as possible. For Windows, it's not bad at all, and it's a massive improvement over Vista even if they share 80% of their DNA. Well, aside from the start menu still requiring Vista's 50 clicks to get to the app you want due to the teeny-tiny scrolling programs folder list. I don't like some of the interface Nazi choices that they're making with no user overrides available (start menu, ribbon).

Look, I've tried the public beta back in Feb, and I'm looking forward to putting RC1 on a couple light use 3D workstations. There's nothing inherently wrong with the XP64 that's on 'em, excepting that fewer and fewer 64-bit apps... like say MacDrive... run against XP64 (just Vista.. which is a naggy, broken clusterfuck).

I'm happiest on my primary workstation (which is a Mac) and my laptop (also a Mac), but I've got memory & processor intensive CG apps I run that require Windows 64. Some require Linux 64. Diversity is good. Rendering throughput with Win7 beta (Maya/mental ray) was nearly 10% higher than XP64 and on par with Linux 64's render times... just easier to roll out and configure on a bunch of render slaves with random hardware profiles (ie whatever I've got on hand when I need the horsepower).

Anything that makes Windows suck less is fine by me, and getting a viable 64-bit Win OS in my hands before I'm unable to buy OEM XP64 copies anymore is a priority. Having RC1 not expire until mid 2010 is a bonus. That means I can use it in light production as a render box or secondary workstation now instead of a nuke-every-few-weeks sandbox.