Wow.

Where's the '-1 Off Topic'?

Seriously.

Do the teleprompters run Linux?

Transfer a full-length Blu-ray movie in less than 30 seconds?

From what to what?

Really? The article positions this as a consumer technology. What is there in the consumer space that can either supply or store bits fast enough to keep up with this? Even enterprise-class storage would sweat to keep up with this.

Laboratory conditions used to create the marketing specs don't count.

Yes, but there will still be only 10 kinds of people in the world, us and the marketing drones.

It's GPL. Guess it's time to fork.

Something I learned early:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"AutoEndTasks"="1"

Apply to each user account and to the Default User profile to prevent apps from getting stuck on shutdown.

This gets applied to every machine I support.

John Carter of Mars?!?!

How the heck are they going to get The Incomparable Dejah Thoris into a kids' movie?

If I was a Microsoft exec I would be flat-out embarrased at the state of package management in the Windows world.

Since Microsoft is not going to make things easier for their competitors, nor apparently for their partners, this is the perfect opportunity for the community to show them how to do it right. The Google Updater should immediately be forked and modified as follows:

- Never report to any third party
- Look to a local server for the update source
- Accept 3rd-party packages for anything the patch admin wants to allow: Adobe Reader, Firefox, Flash, Java, QuickTime, and on and on.


Then we only need 2 updaters running at any time: one for MS wares, one for anything else.

Annoy-a-trons blend, you know.