Thanks to initiatives such as OpenStack and Hadoop and MapReduce (etc) and the countless contributors who commit to the many projects that allow companies (and individuals with commodity hardware in their garage!) to do these amazing things for cheap, this is all possible and should be the trend! The ROI is well within acceptable margins and well.. it's just fun for us computer geeks! Computing really is moving back to it's roots and we're getting to play with amazing software projects.

I bet Hollywood and the RIAA would like to assume you'll make the only sensible option and inform your beneficiaries to use your life insurance to repurchase all such content you think you own.

Call it DirectX11R6.2.1 and you'll get the middle finger from Linus.

I use a telnet client, connect on port 80, and manually write raw http compliant requests to browse the internet. The image translators work for my LAN web servers. But there's way too much information to decode the Internet. You get used to it. I...I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, red-head. Hey, you uh... want a drink?

Pardon my reading comprehension right now, but are you bashing Chrome and saying people only use it because of Google's goofy advertisements endorsing Chrome? I chose Chrome long before Google really worked on advertising it. I chose it for it's responsiveness, very quick javascript engine, instance based crash handling, compact and non-distracting address bar, built in sand boxed flash player, and several other reasons really. I understand the other browsers do some of these same things now but at one point in time Chrome was the first for many of these really cool features. These are reasons I went to Chrome. Before Chrome, I was using Firefox because IE was simply terrible, we all know that. But honestly a couple years ago Firefox was really getting bloated itself. Chrome was refreshing. The road wasn't always smooth sailing, but I'm still happy with Chrome now. I like Firefox again as well, they've cleaned up a lot of the mess that was created. Not a fan boy, I just like riding the smoothest wave in the sea. Change is always good.

...comets try to mitigate the Earth threat.

System.out.println("You win!");

Considering the fact that only a small percentage of even IT people understand just how much server horsepower is required for many typical tasks that environments require of them, I don't expect a huge demand for these Moonshot servers. The specs however are very well suited for many applications used in small to medium sized businesses. And when you get to those who would see appropriate use for these, the price of the chassis is very ugly.

....but then I took an arrow to the knee =(

If Microsoft took the same stance as Apple and went out of their way to (try) and stop us from installing OSX on PC hardware it wouldn't "just work"

I would love to have a tool like this to solidify the "Theorycraft" behind build orders in SC2 :) I mean, I've got my build orders down pretty good now, but that doesn't mean a genetic algorithm isn't ready to punch my face :)