I've seen a lot of apps in the market saying they don't work with the Samsung Galaxy S line of phones - your post helps me understand why. Is there any company doing more harm to the Android ecosystem than Samsung? HTC and Motorola stay pretty close to Google's Android, and seem to benefit from it. Samsung needs to wake up.

It's all about DRM baby. With not consistent and enforceable DRM mechanism, the studios will not allow them to make the streams available on Linux. It's the same reason why there are Netflix viewers for iOS and Windows Mobile 7, but not Android.

But Valve (and to a lesser degree, Blizzard) is almost single handedly keeping PC Gaming alive and well. Steam has been amazing for the PC gaming ecosystem - especially for the little guys. Does World of Goo get noticed without Steam? Probably not. Defense Grid? I doubt it. Puzzle Quest and it's derivatives? Nope. Crayon Physics? No. Plants vs Zombies took off with help from Steam as well, although Popcap is a fairly large developer at this point. I'm against DRM as much as the next guy, but I stick up for Valve and Steam. So far they have a proven track record of being very customer friendly as well as being fairly developer friendly. They are unique in that they seem to be the only company doing AAA cross platform games that puts the PC first. When developers like Bioware are making their PC games feel like ports (and stripping features as in Dragon Age: Origins 2), Valve is still out there supporting Team Fortress 2, and the Left4Dead series first and foremost on the PC.

eBay is the best way to get top dollar for your old games.

I was in the same boat as you, although I couldn't switch to Firefox - it was way too slow. I ended up switching to Chrome - with three plugins (Speed Dial, Smooth Gestures, RSS Subscription Extension), I was close enough in feature parity to be happy. The only thing I'm really missing is that Opera would not close when you closed your last tab, but Chrome does. Everything else works about the same (other than no built in e-mail, bit torrent, news, unite, etc.), but that one still bothers me. The nice benefit - more sites work in Chrome, and Chrome feels a tad bit faster.

At my University, the CS100 class had a median score of 91 or 92, but the mean was much worse. Basically, 70-80% of students were "A/B" level, and just about everyone else was a total failure. Of course, those everyone else's probably never took another computer science class, so I guess the system worked for everyone.

Wait a minute, Chrome and Firefox have no vulnerabilities?

+1 to this - Silverlight is much better than Flash for video. In my experience, it runs with better quality and less CPU usage than flash on all of my systems (Core i7 all way down to Core Duo). Of course, my only experience with Silverlight is with Netflix and March Madness, so YMMV.

The 2.6.32 kernel fixes the HDMI TV detection for 720p resolution on intel chips. Everything else works great for me in intel world (using Gentoo x64 stable).

It's faster, according to Lifehacker.

SYNC works really well and is a huge reason I would consider a Ford vehicle (Fusion or Mustang) over competitors. Of course kdawson will find negatives about it since it's a Microsoft product.

IE8 isn't garbage - it's Javascript performance is pretty awful, but it does bring a few decent features to the table. Accelerators are simple, but effective; web slices might be glorified RSS feeds, but they work and Yahoo mail supports them; and the best part is that each tab gets its own thread. IE8 and Chrome are the only browsers that do this (to my knowledge) and it's really handy - broken websites don't hork up your entire browsing session like they do in Firefox and Opera. FWIW, I use Opera as my primary, and IE8 as my backup in Vista/7 and FF3.5 as my backup in XP. For whatever reason, IE8 feels faster than FF in Vista/7, whereas FF3.5 feels faster in XP.