I don't know what you mean by "entire rest of the market" but Mac OS never had a convention for middle-clicking insofar as it barely had conventions for right-clicking for the longest time so I don't know what you mean by "follow the conventions" since all 3 platforms had different behaviors regarding the matter.

Or do you think The Windows Way should be the only way? Is that what you meant?

I stick to Firefox because the Chrome devs show a complete disregard for the Linux platform and its conventions by refusing to support middle-click loading of URLs:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=11612

>Have we compensated the Americans of Japanese heritage who were rounded up into concentration camps during WWII?

Actually yes, to the tune of $1.6 billion to >82,000 interees and their heirs, back in 1999:

http://www.democracynow.org/1999/2/18/wwii_reparations_japanese_american_internees

>Yeah, sold only by the scam-artists at ECost.

C'mon, really???

http://www.google.com/search?q=Motorola+MOTOFONE+F3&hl=en&prmd=sv&source=lnms&tbs=shop:1&ei=GGjkTMikFozEsAOOz_Bm&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&ved=0CB0Q_AU&biw=1108&bih=995

They are called "pages" now, but yeah, I like the way you think.

I dunno, while I'm *mostly* certain you're a good guy and that link is legit, it seems like downloading a random mediafire link isn't really in the spirit of things here...

You have a newsletter, don't you?

> will not put up with unstable service for long.

Here's where you are very wrong. Twitters service failures are legendary and persist to this day. And they are still around, bigger than ever.

Just to give you a sense of how long people have put up with them: I "quit" Twitter in July of 2008 because of aggravation with their service failures which was already a running joke *THEN*. I thought for sure no way people would put up with that amount of downtime and unreliability.

Also you get the dealership slapping their name on it too. Often the dealer will not only put their name on the body of the car, but also around the license plate.

I live in southern California and you don't see this much around here- in fact I'd never seen it at all until I moved out of state for a while (Wisconsin, where it seemed all cars had it).

I imagine particularly in the Los Angeles region (where I am), this would not fly. I personally would not stand for it. If I'm dropping tens of thousands of dollars on a car, I would demand that dealer badges be removed or there would be no sale. Period.

I find it curious that other people (like you, apparently) don't, and just accept it.

As far as the PS3, the issue is that Sony have been consistently removing features since launch - not just as hardware revisions, but removing features through mandatory (if you want to go online / play recent games) firmware upgrades - and THAT is something that neither MS nor Nintendo have done.

Can you give some examples? I'm genuinely curious. I've had the PS3 since 2007 (1st gen) and the only feature removed by firmware upgrades that I can recall is the Linux compatibility. That sucked, but I can understand their motivations.

I learned to type circa 1982, on old manual typewriters bolted to the tables in typewriting class. We were taught the double space.

A decade or so later of heavy keyboard use, I switched to typing single spaces after sentences. It was no big deal (though honestly, I thought it would be harder).

Actually, subtitles are in the spec : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_14 and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_17

Support is pretty shoddy though :(

>Flash is, simply, a proprietary format that they don't have any patent control over. They want h264, which is a proprietary format controlled by a consortium they are a major member of.

I think you got the Apple v. Flash "war" mixed up with the HTML5 v Flash war...

I'm pretty sure Apple's objection to Flash on their iOS devices has more with it being an alternate development platform that they can't control and little to do with the specialized use case of video delivery. In other words, they want to make sure HotSellingGame is written using *their* dev tools, not against Flash.

Not that the HTML5 v. Flash war makes that much more sense.

Wow, seems like not so many people know:

http://dir.xiph.org/index.php

Icecast has been around a long, long time. I've been running a stream off it since 1999 (!!).

Check it out if you like Bay Area punk: http://gilman.duckpond.net/

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