I would like to believe this, but it hasn't been my experience.

I can tell you this: Vista (!!!) appears to run smoother and with a more-responsive UI on my laptop than when I try a default ubuntu install on the thing (for example, flash just crawls when I am viewing it thru firefox in ubuntu).

It has been my experience in the past that every time I install linux, it runs slower (or at least appears to run slower) than the windows install on the same machine.

I'm not trying to troll. Maybe someone could explain this phenomenon to me. I actually *want* to switch, but I can't if the alternative is providing a degraded experience.

I hate replaying to my own posts...

Although an interesting side effect is in play:

the used market would have a limited supply of used games
the first party would have an infinite supply.

never saw that scenario in economics class...

Allowing the resale of your license for a digital-only game would provide a stop-gap against price fixing.

Even if there is only one 'first party', they would still need to compete with the used market, which would regulate prices.

Now, if we could only convince them to let us re-sell those games...

Digital distribution is fine, as long as these guarantees are in place:

1) I can transfer my rights to the game to some 3rd party (ie, selling it on the 'used game market')
2) I can play the game without it needing to 'phone home' (so I can play it offline, and I can play it even if the activation servers go away).
3) I can play my game on any other device (eg, my wii breaks down and I buy a new one-- i should be able to play all my purchased games on the new one).
4) If the next generation console is backwards-compatible, I can transfer all my old games onto it and play them there (again, hopefully this would work even if the old activation servers no longer exist).

wrap it all up in drm if you want, but it needs to walk and talk like physical media, including all the freedoms (rights) i have now with my physical media.

It is worth noting that Facebook violates privacy of more than just its members.

The summary does not mention this, but one of the things the Canadian study found was that users of Facebook can post photos and Tag the names of each person in the photo (whether they are on Facebook or not).

I believe there are good reasons why a non-Facebook user would not want their images posted, and for that matter, have a searchable Tag posted against that image.

Presently, I can't 'opt-out' of images of myself being posted by members, even though I am not on Facebook.

And on the same subject-- should I even need to 'opt-out'? Maybe they should require 'opt-in'?

The article mentions OS X and the fact that they will be running out of cat names pretty soon.

My prediction: as soon as they run out of cat names, they'll go to 'OS 11'

Steve Jobs will market it by saying 'this one goes to eleven... It's one better, isn't it?'

Along with this is that anyone who begins a statement with 'in this post-9/11 world...' is about to try to convince you to give up some sort of freedom.

We still have about 5 and a half years to fully set up the back to the future 2 future.

i know i'm saving up for my hoverboard right now.

the fact that he refers to the 'information superhighway' is telling as regards to how out of touch he is.

1995 wants its catch-phrase pack.

I feel that I owe Mr Sweeney quite a lot. I was one of the people who ordered the full version of ZZT and Super ZZT back in the golden days, and I have to say that those two 'games' had a direct impact on me.

I always thought it would be nice to have a game editor that was similar in concept to ZZT, but with graphical capabilities. So, that's what I did (http://rpgtoolkit.com).

And I wonder who else owes him the same thanks for the inspiration he sent out on those 3.5 inch disks

Oracle President Safra Catz was also heard to remark...

"all your database are belong to us"