... the interface will initially be test-marketed in Asia, under "Hong Kong FUI" branding.

This is true. American corporations can be ridiculously fickle.

Knew someone who worked at a large PTO firm who tried to introduce Gimp as a free software option for doing quick cleanup work of trademark specimens. At the time (not sure if they still do) the GIMP website had a big writeup about the state of (copyright? trademark? patent? I forget) law hosted somewhere on site and listed from the front page.

That's all it was. A writeup. Perhaps slightly strongly-stated, but nothing absurd. It had nothing to do with GIMP.

Regardless, the PTO firm decided it would be too much of a risk to allow the use of GIMP in their office, given their business/clientele.

You completely missed what he said.

It won't see much adoption by offices in the U.S

It's a valid assessment/opinion even if you don't agree with the interpretation of the term 'Libre'.

You may not find yourself at ease with the idea that the term might be unappealing to some any the US, just as some of those blowhards might find the term unappealing because of perceived associations.

But that doesn't make his statement any less relevant, and doesn't make it a troll.

Wise words.

Sixdegrees -> Friendster -> Orkut -> Myspace -> Facebook. And I know I am missing at least one or two in there.

Nevermind, they did downthread. :-D

newbs.

/awaits someone to trump him.

Probably try to get himself named to the Wake County Board of Education.

I had one "24/96" faxmodem that could connect v.42/mnp... but only when I used the Cheyenne Faxmodem software, or whatever it was, to dialin to the BBSes I called. It was the damnedest thing, I mucked with every init string, did every bit of research I could on the thing (in the pre-Google days), but could never get compression to work with any of my comm programs. So when I was just browsing forums or door games, I'd use my comm program of choice... but when I wanted to transfer files, I'd dialin with the faxmodem software for that extra 15-20 bps.

Huh. Surprised no one brought up term programs. I seem to remember using... something... I forget what, before a friend introduced me to QModem. And QModem lasted me a long time, until Telix. A lot of people liked Telix, or perhaps still do. I always liked Commo, which was scriptable/macro-able to the nth degree... or Terminate!, which had all the bells and whistles.... and a lot of weird history behind it, iirc.
 

This. And having now seen Cars about a half dozen times in 1080i on our DVR, and then nearly that many times more in 1080p since we decided we might as well buy the BR, it's becoming worth it to us. Animated films are turning out to be the best candidates for Blu Ray anyway. If the kid gets to watch what he wants, and I don't have to suffer through horribly pixelated SD stuff on the kid channels (Noggin, et al), it's win-win.

You may find this website useful in determining whether or not your screen resolution and viewing distance can/should be adjusted to affect any discernible difference.

http://www.carltonbale.com/home-theater/home-theater-calculator/