Aqualung is a player that will import and sort by tag, but the interface is a bit non-standard.

I used ReiserFS. It sucked.

What exactly is the point of creating something "useful"? How do you define that? Something that makes someone's life a bit easier, so they have more time for entertainment pursuits? Seems to me in the end it's the same thing. Minecraft creations can also be shared for others enjoyment. You obviously appreciate movies and books, which are created with effort for the goal of entertainment. But ultimately, what's the point in _anything_?

Here in Canada a dry loop DSL line is about $10 extra per month, which the CLECs justify as a price differential for a lost POTS customer. VOIP generally has monthly additional charges - for 9-1-1 service, DID tn, etc.

Case in point: the telecom company I work for has an "unlimited" product offering - that's capped at 2000 minutes/month. According to marketing, "unlimited" means you're not limited to any time of day or day of the week.

Let's see...

Yes.

Yes, because there is never any real need to enter a casino.

On the other hand, flying is sometimes the only viable way to travel somewhere you need to go.

I work for another tech company in the area, and I've found the ex-RIM employees hired here to be generally bitter and filled with a sense of entitlement. I don't know if many of them will be able to cope post-BlackBerry.

Seems you need to be educated on an idea called tragedy of the commons.

I don't think so, the suggestion is there's a single tuppence and lots of farthings. To ignore the greater wealth in smaller denominations to go after the "big prize" is foolish.

The company where I work uses their BOSS Geo service, which costs us about $20-100 per month depending on what marketing campaigns are being done.

How do you know?

Actually RMS has said that development of the Hurd stalled largely because of the introduction of Linux, but that there was enough work already put in to it that that they didn't want to cancel it altogether.
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-and-linux.html

Approx. $2000? Wow, that is an expensive case!