True. Many of them won't be allowed in the AppStore due to the terms of service. The terms of service disallow so many apps it would make launchpad useless if it only worked with AppStore apps.

It does save time to put all the FUD directly in the story summary though, doesn't it?

It's still just two stooges. Chuck Philips is leaving.

"Your country stole the name, and made you all believe that they came up with it."

You really think no one in the US knows what continent they're on? You think no one in the US knows who Amerigo Vespucci is?

How are we supposed to refer to ourselves? United-Statesians?

If Columbians and Brazilians want to refer to themselves as Americans, that's fine. So they mean something slightly different than when someone from the state of California says it (not a Californian - we might piss off someone from north-west Mexico). Why does this bother you so much? The same word has two different meanings depending on the context. Big fucking deal! That's why they number the definitions in the dictionary.

The 7 reasons really just boil down to 2:

• flash is more mature
• developing for a single implementation (flash) is easier than developing for many (html5 browsers)

I think everyone knew this. The first point will go away with time. The second one is a known issue that will either prove to be a significant problem, or not.

U-verse has a 4 tuner DVR available off the shelf. I haven' tried it, but I've heard good things.

I agree with the 2010 comment. Watching live tv has been a waste of time for more than 10 years now (regardless of your opinion of TV content in general). If someone took my dvr, I'd cancel my satellite service that day.

Most children in the wizarding world don't even know what common every day object are such as telephones, cars and radios. Maybe if they would pick up a REAL book every now and again, they would know these things.

It's all about you man.

"The reason for the app store has nothing to do with security and everything about Apple wringing every last penny out of developers"

FUD. Apple doesn't make much money from the App store: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/26/app_store_wildly_successful_but_not_hugely_profitable_for_apple.html

Its your life to risk? But if the hack doesn't work, you're still going to sue the company that made the packemaker right? What about your next of kin? No one is going to let you add experimental changes to a pacemaker. There is no waiver in the world that would protect a company from that kind of liability.

Besides, anything that could possibly be tweaked on a pacemaker is configurable wirelessly already (hence this ridiculous security article).

furniture is so pretentious

When did doctors stop washing their hands? My son has some health issues that cause us to see doctors at least once a week. I don't recall ever seeing a doctor or nurse enter a room without first taking a handful of alcohol foam and cleaning their hands well with it. Hand washing isn't a very effective means to prevent spreading the flu:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/279963
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/24/hand.washing.helpful/index.html

<sarcasm>Yes, I'm sure that's what he meant. You have to spend 336 hours straight studying the Office ribbon before you can use it correctly.</sarcasm>

His point (which I agree with), is that all things being equal, the ribbon is a better interface than the file menu. Of course all things are not equal. You've been practicing on that clunky "Word for Windows" file menu for 15 years. It may take you a little time to retrain yourself. People like myself, on the other hand, don't use Office regularly, and find the new interface much easier to use.

Microsoft is taking a calculated risk to separate themselves from their competitors. I think it was a good decision.

You don't like .NET because of Winforms? Thats like not liking Java because AWT components suck. If you don't like Winforms, use something else, like WPF or GTK#. This is completely off topic anyway as CocoaTouch doesn't use Winforms. It uses Cocoa components.

That's different. An infrared camera has the ir filter removed and an additional filter added to block non-ir light (see the video here http://www.lifepixel.com/). The old filter blocked ir light across the entire sensor. It's essentially like any other filter you would put on your lens. A Bayer filter is completely different. It filters each individual cell of the sensor with one of three colors. Each cell knows which color was used to filter it. It would have to be implemented on the sensor itself.

We do need ditch diggers. But do we really need billions of ditch diggers?