> In OS X, I can [...] use a variety of Finder replacements.
The Finder still has horrid usability problems, but I guess that I'm the only Mac user who needs to manipulate files on his disk drives, so no one else notices.
Care to list all the non-sucky Finder replacements out there? I've yet to find one.

If "Splice" is an indication of the type of movie treatment we can expect for Neuromancer, then we should all be very very afraid.

Apparently, movie ratings are currently suffering from score inflation. I see lots of healthy B-grade scores hovering with an average of 7/10 for Splice.

Based solely on this thread, I just watched Splice. It wasn't worth it. I am sure there are worse movies on earth, but this one has nothing redeeming to it. It's a 1/10 at best. The only thing that impressed me about it is that someone bothered to finish and release it to the public.

William Gibson continues to write fantastic novels. I'm not sure they can be called Science Fiction anymore, but they are wonderful nonetheless.

Max Headroom (the TV show on ABC in America) proves that cyberpunk can be done well on the screen. There's no reason why Neuromancer is necessarily doomed.
Personally, I'd be delighted if it was a huge flop for general audiences but a huge hit for those plugged into the book.

Then again, I'm a huge fan. I disliked the BBC radio play for Neuromancer because even if the same things happened that were in the book, they happened for different reasons in the play. That alone ruined it for me, and the BBC was attempting a faithful copy.

Agreed. Neuromancer really rewards the reader on the third reading. Then you know the lingo, you know the pacing, you know the plot, and you can enjoy it all.

I used to learn new languages by buying the local translation of Neuromancer. Since I already knew the text inside out and backwards in English, I could focus on the words and structures of the foreign language that I was learning. Of course, you end up speaking like Case or Molly. That may not work to your advantage.

The movie will bear no resemblance to my mind's rendition of Neuromancer, and I will be profoundly disappointed. I will probably watch and rewatch this movie a few times, regardless.

So will videos on Google Video need to be re-encoded to play on YouTube?

A lot of the content on Google Video is already postage-stamp sized and blurry. A further encoding could make them unviewable but all but the most dedicated fans.

The second URL explains it quite clearly:

So if it is against YouTube's policies, then it's out.

If you are curious, TED.com has a brief but interesting video that explains how YouTube automates their search for copyright infringement, and how effective it is regardless of the quality of the submission. These automated systems can tag shaky video recorded onto mobile phones, for instance.

The true shame of the 24/7 news media is that it moves from story to story without any sense of scale or importance. Because there has not been any continuing visible signs of the continuing catastrophe since the gas ventings, they have moved on to other stories.

Having listened to Dr. Kaku, I'm just glad I don't work as an engineer for TEPCO.

While it's nice to see Google doing the right thing, I question their change of heart. My own guess would be that far more people began leeching ungodly amounts of Google Video content, putting a strain on Google itself.

Rather than continue the pain, Google simply decided to allow people to transfer video from Google Video to YouTube.

The iPad is the market leader, but I'm holding out for the 2nd Gen.

As per Apple's standard operating practices, Calendar/Financial Q1 is the slowest of the whole year. So I'm expecting Steve Jobs to jump up on stage and wow us sometime at the end of January 2011. (It might be later, but my bet is still on Q1.)

Exactly. Some of us live in company-sponsored expat apartments where the hum-drum actions like paying utility bills is handled by others.