My thoughts exactly. To be honest, until the recent update flickr was at risk of losing the leadership as well. It hadn't been updated in 3 years, but now it has all ajaxy goodness. All the non-techie people I know that like photography still prefer flickr.

No you're wrong. For a primarily mouse and keyboard (primarily) gamer like me, the "precise control of a d-pad" is inadequate. Yet the vast majority of people game with a Dpads and are happy. Games for DPads are designed for auto-aim and loose control. Similar will happen with the move to touch screen games. Sure there will be dpad games for the hard core, but the majority will play touchscreen games on the go.

At the end of the day the cheap and fun aspect of mobile games like Angry Birds and PvZ will win people over.

Hasn't Eric Schmidt done the same at Google?

http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/telecom/security/how-stuxnet-is-rewriting-the-cyberterrorism-playbook has a good overview published a month ago.

He is talking about the trade (current account) deficit when talking about the indebtedness to china. In that context, he is generally correct. In the fact that the federal deficit is partially funded by china, you are largely correct. Of course both yours and his numbers are more a reflection of the economic climate that Obama inherited rather than anything particular done by the administration.

No one can sell it away like Wideanus did for MySQL?

Props to you for working on Xen. I REALLY liked Xen and used it in a production system based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Ubuntu has moved to kvm as well and the documentation for virtualization is full of kvm based tools. Makes it hard to continue using Xen on 10.04, so I have made the painful switch to kvm (I am virtualizing Linux at home for learning & fun). One thing that was easy on Xen was working with LVM partitions and extending and mounting LVM partitions (in the guests). I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this in kvm (yet). Anyway, I'm keeping an eye on Xen and will check out the documentation again.

Bitrate for Netflix (PS3) was 5 Mbps. Will have to check now but I doubt they'll go much over 5-8 Mbps. So it will be worse than satellite or cable which are honestly horrible. Any action scene gets horribly pixellated on my comcast HD box. I have a 720p 32" TV and its easily noticeable.

Err is that why other phones are in the graphs? For a more detailed and IMO better review this page on Anandtechhas wifi only comparison including the iphone 3gs and 4.

How does Dropbox or a million other alternatives not offer a better workflow than emailing yourself documents. What kind of nerd is emailing themselves documents in this day and age....

Yes agreed. I made some incorrect assumptions.

It is unlikely that it is much worse than most smallish p&s cameras. The sensor size (1/3.2") is worse, but there are a number of advances over regular point and shoots. http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/sizing-up-the-iphone-4-for-shutterbugs.ars

Personally I think the HDR camera mode is really cool.

Sorry, but this is how it works on iOS. Your app downloads fine. If it tries to use the GPS the phone prompts you for permission. If it tries to message you, the phone prompts you to allow messaging. etc. Works great, maybe google will copy this too.

Wikipedia disagrees and claims it was due to Windows 3.0's runaway success that MS felt bold enough to go on its own. My own recollection is in accordance with that.

These license "issues" were embrace, extend extinguish by extending Java which was against the licensing agreemmt.

Judging by your 5 rating, it is very hip to defend MS on /. as well.

Disk Encryption is another big part of McAfee. We not only use their software, an update of which caused BSODs a few months ago, but we've also moved to this Safeboot encryption product which is now called endpoint encryption. Intel has recently added AES-NI encryption instructions to its chips which they will likely port safeboot over to.

I like truecrypt and MSE for windows systems myself but I am not an IT director.