The battle against H.264 will end up costing them even more market share too
Don't be ridiculous. There are sound legal (not idealogical) reasons why Mozilla cannot implement H.264. Patent law, basically. For you to portray that as Mozilla fighting a 'battle' is downright disingenuous.
What IS unrealistic to to blame ONLY man to the exclusion of all other contributing factors, which is what the A in AGW and all the real debate is about.
Straw man weasel alert! No-one (NO-ONE) is saying that man is the only factor in climate change. You are pointing at the relatively small (natural) variation in climate that you could expect to occur over a couple of centuries and using it to spread FUD over the much larger anthropogenic variation.
How long did Mac users have to wait to get a version of BBC iPlayer that even remotely came close to working?
BBC finally shows Apple some love after years of neglect, and they get pounded.
The iPlayer is a Flash app. Plenty of other computers & mobile devices can use the iPlayer without the BBC having to specifically "show them some love".
Lack of Flash is Apple's choice and iPhone users are lucky that the BBC went out of its way to accommodate them. Not hard-done-by that it took until 2008.
Finally, it's not the BBC being 'pounded' here: they were simply reporting on pointless iPhone app development by various government departments.
but don't the standard criticisms still apply: that it only hurts paying customers (though it hurts fewer of them than worse DRM) and is ineffective against pirates?
And that you're screwed when their activation server is eventually switched off.
To applaud blizzard for this stance is like the frogs being grateful that the pot hasn't got any hotter recently (reference)
Factorials were someone's attempt to make math LOOK exciting.