The Stargate series started off great, but it should have ended long before Atlantis even kicked off, let alone Universe.

I have a feeling most sites I frequent are going to fall into the "intermediate" category, though from a SEO perspective you typically want to keep your site content basic and easy to understand. Obviously a site dedicated to molecular physics would require pages that should probably be classified as "advanced" but not every page on the site would, so unless Google is planning on adding more site links to each domain they show in search results, I don't see how this will result in accurate listings or ultimately even add any benefit to search in general. But kudo's to thinking outside the box and testing it on the masses.

I completely agree.

My laptop runs Fedora right now which is what I use for work, writing and web browsing. I have a partition set aside for Windows because I like to play some PC games, primarily WoW, LOTRO, DDO and STO (mostly WoW, though I write about MMO's in general so I kind of have to check in with them...anyway...)

With my current setup I fail to see why I would consider ChromeOS as a possible third boot, or for anything really.

Now, if ChromeOS came out of the box and ran things like OpenOffice, GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus or alternatively Office, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. I'd probably replace Fedora, if it could run WoW, I'd probably replace Windows. unfortunately, Chrome offers me nothing. Hell, even my Apple desktop runs almost everything my Windows side does.

woot! the former ATM OS shall rise once again!

ok, probably not. :)

As far as social bookmarking sites go I think StumbleUpon was a clear favorite, though Digg and Reddit seemed to be very similar to how Delicious was setup, I wonder who will "win" in the end...actually, I really don't care.

So they have to pay a dollar...I wonder how much it cost in legal and a check fee for that...not that Google would care...

So let's see, what's the worst way to deliver that $1? Pennies? A moist dollar? An out of state check/money order so it has a week hold on it?

and have a cancer or some other terminal disease causing me to reach the end of my existence that I'll be brave enough to go buy a sniper rifle and start firing into the brains of all the politicians in Sacramento, CA or perhaps I might head up to Washington...

The first paragraph complains about FPS that are easy to complete in "4 hours", but then the post goes on to compare that against games like Zelda Ocarina of Time, a RPG...

Let me break things down for those who have not grasped this concept:

FPS: First Person Shooters (ie: Halo, MoA, etc) have typically "short" single player campaigns because the games typically have a lot of replay value in that after you "finish" the game you spend the majority of your time going head to head with others online, or at home, or on different modes co-op.

RPG: Role Playing Games (ie: Zelda, DragonAge, etc) have typically 80-120 hours of game play story because typically once you beat them you never play them again. Granted, you may play the game again "later", like I played FF: Tactics when I was in high school and when it was released on the PSP I got a copy to play again.

No really, adjust your designs to fit with modern technology and stop trying to convert print sizes (A4) to web (pixels not inches)

I saw a report earlier this year online that said, 70% of screens are still rocking 1280x1024 resolutions, though I expect that when the numbers come out for 2010 I imagine it'll be more like 60% with the bulk of the remaining viewers using wide-cinema style resolutions given the popularity of 16-17" laptops and wide screens.

I really like WP, IMO it's actually the best CMS out there in the sense of easy to use and doesn't require you to have a hands on php developer in house or on contract to change up the layout or add in new features, unlike the more robust CMS Drupal.

Of course I say this not having played with Joomla or Modx and of course it's slightly off topic since this is about the blogging features and not the CMS features...

I see tons of frivolous items that could be reported on throughout their site to the DMCA. Just start submitting and eventually 3 notices will make it through....Should be great to see Suddenlink have to take their own site down.

I don't really care about the excessive ads, it's more so that people use it excessively. Take any fashion designers website which so often is 100% flash, so every page is really part of a flash app that doesn't allow a user to simply go "back" to a previous page. Not to mention it's annoying having a solid cable connection and yet the site takes 30 seconds to load because the creators wanted to have a 1920x1600 screen full of 24 different flash animations comprising the page.

If they managed to actually shut down The Pirate Bay, EZTV and all the other torrent sites on the entire internet, all that would happen is people would go back to grabbing lists from IRC and FTP downloading like they did in the late 90's to 2001ish.

More time and effort should be spent on making sure products are actually worth selling, and then piracy wouldn't matter. For example, I'm pretty sure Blizzard's Starcraft 2 is still making tons of money regardless of it being available for download, as well as I'm pretty sure the next Harry Potter movie is going to make shitloads of money, just like it's previous movies, regardless of it being on The Pirate Bay.

What successful product has ever really been hurt by piracy? How many shitty products that deserve to fail (or at least get subpar earnings) has been tanked by piracy? So companies that make shitty movies make less money - good - that's how business is designed to work.