I did struggled a bit with that exact word, but I think "photorealistic" covers it best in the context of a title where it needs to be short. The textures are photos taken from many, many angles and draped over meches that are computed to be close to reality. Zoom in close enough and you run out of data, same things with photos. :)

They would be correct, so I'd believe it.

I bet you would. But those were probably about some badly supported chipset, not trying to run packages from the default Ubuntu repository on an unmodified Ubuntu.

Because that's what happened. We went from "If the hardware is supported it works" to "It might work, and oh look! You can change volume individually on the apps without app-support!".

Oh no, sound was working for a couple of years. ALSA had stabilized. Then came PulseAudio.

That would then make Opera Software (to take an example in the same domain) a charity using the same test.

I hear Wikimedia takes patches.

You don't want random downloaded crap clogging up the Kindle interface. It doesn't scale well.

Opera usage is calculated on usage, not downloads. For the desktop browser it's based on the number of users querying for an upgrade. So if you have turned off "automatically check for updates" you won't even be counted.

120M is under-reporting, not over-reporting.

Animated GIFs where introduced in Netscape 2.0, which didn't appear until late 1995. So '93 and '94 was animation free. I believe <blink> was available from '94 though.

Possibly, but he isn't playing them, and no there isn't. There are however people that will sell you a solution for pirating PS3 games. They usually stand next to the guy that sells you bridges.

And we travel in packs.

There is one (and only one) way to secure against DDoS: Ridiculous over-capacity. All other fixes are attack specific. In this case Ubi should have made sure they had that. Not because they care about the customer but because the reputation of the system is likely to influence sales.

The question was about OpenSolaris which is much - but not quite - like Solaris.

Although I suspect you meant your question to be rhetorical it's a good question. HPUX and AIX has never meant to be run on consumer hardware. They are/where tailored to the hardware they where sold for. Solaris and MacOS aren't much different here.

OpenSolaris on the other hand is an open project with ongoing efforts to make it run on thing not sold by Sun or Fujitsu. It has nowhere near the peripheral device support Linux has, but as with other open source OSs that is an ongoing effort. I haven't found a PC I couldn't install OpenSolaris on for a few years now.