1) That report is a year old (July 2010). The current numbers are revealing.

2) Installed base is not the same as trend. There are more installed Windows XP systems in the world than Windows 7 systems. That doesn't mean XP is 'winning' the desktop OS.

3) W3Techs shows CentOS's market share hit its peak at about 10 or 11% of web sites, not 30%. The 30% number was the fraction of Linux web servers, not all web servers.

4) Since about Oct. 2010 CentOS has lost market share (dropped to circa 9%).

5) Ubuntu is growing much faster than anyone else is.

1. That quote is just under a year old, was a random comment with no evidence that the poster was who they said they were, that they knew what they were talking about, and was talking about the winter in 2009 to boot.

2. It doesn't matter globally if it froze people's balls off in England: Local Weather STILL isn't Global Climate.

1. Even if the Sun were to enter a Grand Minimum it would only offset warming for a few decades. And when the minimum ended, all that warming would come rushing right back.

2. 2010 is on track to be the warmest year ever in modern history. Think about that. The Sun is in the deepest minimum in around a century, scarcely a sunspot to be seen and we are still breaking the all time record for warmth globally.

3. It may be cold in England. But it is way above normal in Greenland. What part of Global don't you understand? Local weather has little to nothing to do with global climate.

Not everyone follows the pop charts.

I had to Google her to find out what she has done. The only song I recognized was the Eminem song she was mixed into. That said, she is a decent singer who's 'Thank You' reminds me of BoA's Duvet.

I think that's the point of this discussion, getting 1200 vpixels didn't used to be "specialty".

Every computer technology eventually becomes a specialty item.

Usually not too long before it passes away into the land of completely obsolete and from there into the land of 'found only in museums'.

Yeah, a whopping 10 of them, all expensive. Now see count how many 16x9 there are!

You are comparing apples and oranges. If you want the cheap commodity monitors you have to live with what the main market wants: 1080p. You are looking for a specialty monitor when you talk 1200 tall. You get to pay more for that. That's just basic supply and demand economics.

If you don't like it, that is your problem.

And no availability.

I actually called them. All three Apple stores in Oregon: They do not have the 16GB+WiFi $499 model in stock currently. They did have the 64GB+3G in stock. For "slightly" more.

Good luck finding that model in stock in the local Apple Store. Or in any store, for that matter.

So get one by legally paying less than $500.

Go ahead.

Oh, wait. You can't.

I checked the receipt and you are right about shipping. But on the $729 for the 32GB + 3G I still paid well $114 for a case, taxes and fees. Scaling down to $499 for the taxes would give a final cost of about $588.

Plus taxes, shipping and recycle fees. Which will raise the cost to well over $500. Add a case for another $40 whack and that $499 iPad is fast approaching $600.

Addendum: Checking my logs, the 3000 greylist stopped spam emails were what were left after *other* filters stopped an additional 156,000 spam attempts. Yes - it really has reached the point where *less than* 1% of email is legitimate.

On my servers, at one point, 99% of attempted spam mailings were being rejected via greylisting at the edge MXs (I'm talking order of 200K mail attempts per day - it vastly outnumbered legitimate emails). If you are big enough, it is a very important tool. It is less effective today than it was but is still is an important first layer spambot screen: Yesterday, it stopped around 3000 attempts to spam us and let through about 1000 mails. Stopping 75% of spam with *one* technique is nothing to be sneezed at.

Greylisting is to SMTP as NAT is to IPv4

An ugly hack that is required in practice to keep the net from collapsing?

The problem with this is pretty much all of the whois servers rate limit requests. Make than a very small number of requests per day and they simply quit answering. What we need is basic whois info available like domain created dates via DNS queries.

There is this mass group-think happening here were 99% of the posters say something about how it is just harmless fun.

Well, it isn't. People get badly hurt by them. Esophageal injury from a plastic bottle containing dry ice. One of the children in this case nearly died. If you do a Google search for 'dry ice injury' or 'dry ice accident' you can find plenty. Such as this one from Dry Ice Experiments Feedback:

I was reading your web page about the accident involving the dry ice and the loss of the woman's sight. On July 3, 1999 a similar accident happened in my family.
My then three year old son was seriously injured, He lost one of his eyes, his right thumb was 75% severed and broken, his left thumb was 50% severed and he had a gash about 4 inches long on his stomach. I had also never heard of this and was mortified. My son is now doing wonderful and we are very vocal about it to let people know what can happen with what I found out after the fact to be called "dry ice bombs".
Angela Hinkhouse

Lots of accidents on video at YouTube.

Yeah. All good harmless fun.

Not.