When introducing yourself to Scotch (Even Single Malt) don't be afraid to add a bit of water to it. You actually allow more of the fragrance of the alcohol to diffuse as you dilute the drink, and so the flavor maintains very well, while reducing the pure alcohol burn which turns off many exploring drinkers.

I would personally prefer to stay away from Monsanto based products not because I don't trust their science, but because I dislike their business practices and media tomfoolery. GM crops are a double-edged sword by all neutral study, having definite benefits of their own but creating potentially disastrous consequences (super-bugs and super-weeds, which are nearly immune to conventional herb- or insecticides), but the Intellectual Property abuse that comes of their use is hurting more farmers than those issues for now.

The idea of a universal symbol language which translates to other languages without syntax is not new, but nobody has done it any "better" than this. The basic symbol sets do indeed capture the most essential frameworks for a message, but there is no mandate for how to create words beyond the initial set, and if words continue to come in then the character set will grow too large for a non-dedicated user to comprehend it.

On a more worrying note: There are major accessibility issues which have been ignored, which I am concerned might leave some things mistranslated. The most obvious example is having symbols of identical shape, but differing colors, with different meanings. This is bad for color-blind users obviously. Additionally, I was having a hard time differentiating the details of some symbols, even though I'm on a full size computer screen, wearing my glasses, etc. On a cell phone I'm willing to bet that won't be easier.

For hardcore players perhaps, but for the Casual majority WoW is still a larger world, at least the first time through. It's at "End Game" where you end up cycling through the same instances over and over to get every drop you need...

I disagree that this won't be for them... Any of us who have a desktop as their main computer, don't need a full laptop, and don't want the hassle of maintaining two full computers (whether it be a laptop or netbook) will find this a perfect niche product.... This is in fact exactly the tablet I've been looking for. And that's after using 14 PDA/Tablet style devices in the past, and some 13 different laptop models.

In the summary there were 3 features already present in current Touch OS devices, which work great, and have been working for ages. If the author has so poorly researched the article, how is it relevant? All he knows is that dissing an Apple product will drive clicks (or ever more increasingly, taps), no matter if he's got a clue what he's talking about. Until we as a community stop feeding such jackassery, the quality of tech journalism will continue to slip.

This is the perfect realm for someone like Google to change the space...

As of now PKI for email is just too much work for a normal user, and single emails, or single users, using encryption stand out as people to monitor, anomalous activity.

Someone like Google could add a checkbox in their Labs features that automatically encrypts email between users who have the feature enabled on their system, and publicizes the spec so others can implement on the server side. It doesn't address the authentication side of the equation, but at least could raise the traffic level of encrypted email enough to make purposely encrypted emails noise instead of signal.

Authentication can still be handled by other means, including SSI and self-signed keys.

I have used Zenoss pretty extensively for this in the past.... Between the native SNMP tools and clients for most platforms, you can pretty extensively get a running snapshot of your network, as well as do performance and service monitoring. Depending on the SNMP plugin or client you're using, it can even do some software auditing.

Interesting. The page, fonts, etc. all looked fantastic in Safari and Firefox on my Mac.

The same people who dig http://www.virtualapple.org/ or think FreeDos is still relevant. People who are know vinyl has something CDs can't replicate. People who know the pinnacle of gaming was either Nethack or Ultima 7 (Depending on whether you prefer gameplay or story).

Let's answer two ways that could be taken... No, I didn't mean Mac OS X is 40, my grammar radar missed that possible interpretation. (Though being a hereditary Unix through NeXT, BSD4.4 and back, it could be considered such)

By any measure I have seen in the past 5 years, Mac OS X continually shows market penetration 5-8+ times that of Linux, compared to which any other Unix system usage can mostly be considered statistical noise.

That's not to say they don't have relevance or followers, but when it comes to getting the average user putting their hands on a Unix or Unix-like system, no other compares to Mac OS X, and that's not even counting embedded usage like the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Wow... 40 already.

When I started doing Unix Admin professionally Unix was just turning 30, Linux was poised to take over the Desktop, Mac OS X was just a glimmer of hope, and Sun was the king of commercial Unix.

When I started using Minix, Unix was only 20, but RMS was kvetching about source code (and Hurd was Coming Soon), BSD had just won it's freedom, and Steve Jobs was doing cool things over at NeXT. Unix was just leaving it's First "Golden Age"...

Now, at 40, Mac OS X is the most used Unix system, Sun was just bought cheap, most other commercial Unix systems are defunct... But with Android, Pre, and iPhone all putting *nix systems in the palms of millions, Macs selling more than ever, and many companies offering Linux pre-installed in the box, Unix is as relevant as ever.