Monopoly?

Then you're ignorant, because Sony != Blu-ray. Sony is only one of many corporations that make up the AACS LA.

Blu-ray is a 4x improvement over DVD to the point and (to me) a gigantic quality improvement; why on earth would you protest Sony by not buying Blu-rays? You can buy Blu-ray players from other companies, you know. 2 years ago, Samsung was making $100 players with Netflix streaming built into them. No Sony involved.

Same here. Glad to know someone else valued the events as historically as I did.

This is the same problem, unfortunately, as the ffmpeg vs. libav fork problem (which recently has led to odd lawsuit threats).

Not if latency has anything to do with your business (which it does for most businesses). And by "latency" I mean both speed of response of admins, as well as speed of response of servers. If your web-based customers are primarily in America, you don't want database queries (which can easily be more than 20 per page depending on the application) traversing the ocean... and if something is broken, you don't want a troubleshooting response time of 15 hours between email replies.

I'm not sure whether Gnome 3 is a complete rethink or a desperate attempt to break out of the Windows 95 mould

It's an update to the Windows mold. Lots of the new features I see (especially window snapping) are directly lifted from Windows 7.

all the computer systems shown in Jurassic Park where real

Right, but the video surveillance footage -- a quicktime movie playing back, complete with scrolling thumb to show position -- was not!

The symptoms are similar but they are only tangentially related. The headline is incredibly misleading by suggesting a drug has been produced that can reverse autism, which is of course not true.

The code was present but disabled.

Yes, I know it was 3.1 and the article is 3.0. I was making a different point.

"Some say that the Windows 3.0 GUI (remember, it needed MS-DOS/DR-DOS to work)"

That should read "needed DR-DOS to NOT work". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code

If you wonder where the anti-Microsoft FUD comes from, it comes from people like me who still remember this stuff. Don't get me started on how Geoworks was crushed.

This is wholly inaccurate. The only reason the Mac didn't have decent sound was because Burrell only put a single-voice DAC into the Mac and Burrell and Hertzfeld didn't have a lot of time to write a decent mixing routine. More details here: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Sound_By_Monday.txt

Jam Session and Studio Session by Bogas were able to mix up to six voices realtime, so decent sound was possible through software.

5x1.5TB in RAIDZ2

That wasn't very efficient. You could have had 14% more space with 50% less CPU if you'd gone with raidz. raidz2 was intended for 6 drives or more, not 5 or less.

I learned this the hard way recently... I bought a few games because they were cheaper from other services, and was disappointed that the entire process wasn't as seamless as Steam is. Poor download times, odd licensing, and misbehaving system tray icons eventually forced me to re-purchase all my games from Steam just so I wouldn't have to deal with it. And I'm glad I did.

One of the things I like about Steam is that, without any effort on my part, my games follow me. If I log into any computer in the world with the steam client, my games are there, ready to download and play. That's DRM I can live with.