There's nothing that says the name of the tool and the command you type must be the same. I wouldn't sweat it.

Anyone that has ever owned an iPod or iPhone knows for sure that everything he said is a blatant lie.

I don't know this DJRumpy character, but the claims he made didn't sound all that crazy to me

No, the connectors that interface with the PC are standard USB or Firewire. This is FUD.

That's the physical connector on one side, but I'm pretty sure thing is proprietary. I don't agree with this claim.

Any MP3, AAC, AIFF, or WAV will work with an iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc.

This is true.

You are NOT required to use iTunes either. There are a multitude of alternatives (http://www.sourceforge.net).

This claim is a bit ambiguous because I'm not sure if he means the management software or the music store. Regardless, you certainly don't have to use either. You can't rip your own CDs or buy MP3s from Amazon or whatever. And there are alternatives for the management software, but none of them work as smoothly as iTunes. I agree with this claim.

Even if you choose to use iTunes, it can be set to use MP3 if you don't like AAC.

Yup. Totally true.

So three out of his four claims are valid. That's a pretty good fact to bullshit ratio for the internet.

I consume HTML5 video almost daily. Support for HTML5 video in recent browsers is solid. I work for an organization that produces several national and international publications and we publish HTML5 video content daily. Numerous news sites are publishing HTML 5 video. If you want to serve video to iOS devices (and most of us do), you're going to use HTML5. It's here. Really the one problem that I don't see resolved with HTML5 is DRM. Arguably that isn't a problem. But I have a hard time imagining Hulu or Netflix rolling out an HTML5 UI anytime soon.

While Microsoft's use of HTML5 video will certainly broaden its support, HTML5 video would have happened without it. It's already well on its way. Your claim that it wouldn't have happened without it is baseless. This really has nothing to do with Microsoft being perceived as evil.

If you make your living developing web apps for mobile devices, you should care a great deal about a new iPhone. And not because of any of the device's inherent qualities. But because people will be in fact lining up to buy it. It's like the stock market in a sense. A stock is worth a lot because people think it's worth a lot. The iPhone is a big deal because people think it's a big deal.

And people only like Harry Potter because it's secret? Really? Super compelling argument.

It may seem reactionary, but I suspect the debate about whether to end support for IE6 has been going on for quite some time.

I would be very interested to know what percentage of Google Docs users are still using IE6. I would also be very interested in knowing how much it costs Google to support IE6 (the recent attacks notwithstanding). The development costs of supporting IE6 in any sort of web application are not insignificant. I suspect the percentage of the development budget that Google uses to support IE6 is disproportionate to the percentage of IE6 users.

Dropping IE6 is inevitable. Sure it leaves some people behind, but I'll bet the benefits of doing so significantly outweigh the drawbacks.

It seems as though no one is making a distinction between being anti-business and anti-corporation. Personally, I feel that the corporation as a legal entity is indeed a malignancy. But I certainly wouldn't regard myself as anti-business or anti-capitalist. Far from it.

And I've always hated that maxim. It's perniciously simplistic. It's just a pithy way for conservatives to call liberals dumb. It it no way addresses how drastically the terms "conservative" and "liberal" have changed over time.

But just like you I've yet to see a system that I'd rather live under.

I think you've done a great job of articulating your point (although I disagree with your use of the term "by definition"). I certainly share your frustration with our legal system. Having laws that are generally ignored (or of which we are wholly ignorant) engenders a lack of respect for the law.

But what would the "right" legal system look like? I honestly don't know. That's something that I've never heard satisfactorily explained. Could you offer some details?

Clearly something is broken. How would you fix it?

I'd like to know more about this agreement between Apple and Sun. I did a bit of searching and couldn't find anything. Do you have more info? A link maybe?

I'd say Macgillivray is right

He makes a pretty common argument that Google News actually helps every news service as opposed to the AP's claims of hurting them (maybe even stealing from them).

I work for a struggling national newspaper. It isn't the New York Times, but you've certainly heard of it. And for our editorial staff, getting one of our stories picked up by Google news is about the best thing that can happen. We love it.

At first I thought this was just a troll. But then it dawned on me that you might actually hold these opinions. Wow.

So I wanted to add my two cents.

I'm a Mac user and I find the implication that I've chosen a Mac in order to be cool or because of peer pressure plainly insulting. I don't think the OS is great, but for my needs I think it's the least bad of the major desktop OSes.

• I can do the things I want to do.
• I don't have to mess with the OS if I don't want to.
• I want my peripherals work with minimal effort.

Using those statements as a guide, OS X was the clear winner. By a long shot. Of course that evaluation is subjective--what you want to do and what I want to do are likely rather different.

Frankly, I don't give a shit whether someone know what OS I use. It isn't a part of my identity and it isn't part of an image I wish to project. It's just a preference. Lighten the fuck up.

Believe or not, it works without frauds in the 3rd world.

..that you know of.