I became a heavy user of windows, not because I like windows or wanted to use it. It was because it had the most focus from the developers. Games come out for it first, the software is written for the platform first (usually) and typically ran better than the games ported to the Mac (at the time I decided on buying my last few PCs). Ported games generally suck for a number of reasons, and that's why I don't run OS X or Linux for games. Even though games run on a particular alternative OS, they are usually a sub-par experience mainly due to lack of developer focus on those platforms. Ports typically run worse than their windows counter part. I know this isn't intrinsic, but its an accurate rule of thumb up until this point. Often times mod support is poor on OS ports. I know for a long time, ports could not even play with clients on windows for whatever reason. This is less of the case these days, but think back to 2004-2005. I would REALLY love to get away from windows and start running linux for gaming too, and am willing to help out on that effort simply by doing it, which is why this Valve/Linux direction pleases me so much. Windows is a terribly crippled OS in so many ways, I would love to get away from it as much as possible, and hopefully mostly avoid apple where I can since they will never support building your own systems which is pretty core to PC gaming.

They could start by actually deleting deleted content. Seems simple to me. Lets hope their shortsightedness continues when everyone jumps ship for the next social fad, and continuing this rat race becomes far to costly.

Gaming is one of the few activities on a computer that requires Windows. Getting support from a high profile Developer and buisness like Valve seems like what is needed to finally break that requirement, or at least to get the process going. It seems like a lot of people are skeptical of the viability of this, but I certainly am happy to support a move away from Windows, especially given the direction Windows 8 is taking the OS. Valve is probrably one of the most respected companies and leaders in the gaming industry, and hearing them promote Linux like this is really fantastic. Steam moving to mac is great and all, but it would be a shame if valve put a lot of effort into getting onto such a restrictive platform after taking the effort to get off of another restrictive platform. I really hope Linux becomes their primary focus to move people too. Linux for desktop still may have a future after all!

You apparently do not understand the purpose of the internet. Data caps are purely a profit mechanism. The fundamental purpose of the internet is to send data cheaply to any any other point on the network. Implementing arbitrary data caps cripples its ability to do that.

BrowserID is actually quite promising due to some really interesting design decisions. Plus it actually really usable (unlike openID) and decentralized by design (unlike facebook or google login integration). I recommend this video to learn a little about it: http://identity.mozilla.com/post/13459806252/another-introduction-to-browserid-for-webfwd

I just asked in the firefox irc channel and people seemed to think that "they push updates later today" with respect to firefox 9.

It seems like a lot of people are asking for this. Has there been any response from mozilla about this idea? A dated version numbering system seems vastly more relevant to the end user than any other system I have seen. I would love to see this. "Grandma, you see, its 2015, but you are still running firefox 12, back from 2012, which contains many flaws that might get your social security benefits stolen"

I found that funny too. People complain about the rapid release cycle of firefox, then tell you to use chrome. To be fair, the second part of the argument, is that their archaic, poorly maintained mash of firefox plugins stopped working and its because of the new release schedule (which is partly true, but hardly the part of the bigger issues that firefox is facing and dealing with rather well). Google's chrome is slick now, just as firefox was back a few years ago was, but I guess I am not truly convinced that chrome wont face the same issues that firefox is facing today. Plus, It seems to me that giving into chrome and abandoning firefox hands the browser market back to the big guys to push their will onto the web, just as IE had done prior to firefox. I think chrome is a good browser, and I sometimes use it, but I find mozilla's policies fall more in line with my own regarding many aspects, and mainly stick to firefox.

The shows mostly suck. You have to slog through adds. I don't know when anything is on. Its different everywhere you go. The remotes and interfaces are terribly designed. For the most part, the TV, receiver and media players don't talk to each other. Thats why I stopped watching. I want to watch whatever I want, whenever I want, without adds. If someone can provide that for REASONABLE prices I would pay, but until that happens, I guess its up to me to figure out plus a copy of XBMC.

Just because its standard doesn't excuse it from being abuse.

I would say renting is probably the best advice. People are arguing that ripping the disks to hard drive would be effective, but holly molly, that is going to take a long time, and a crap-load of space, or an even more insane amount of time if it includes encoding the rips, especially if you your collection includes blue-ray discs. If people must hoard, you are better off leaving the ripping to the professionals. They will do a better job, and its an immense waste of time the same way media capturing is. DRM and hoarding mix terribly, so basically your only effective option is getting onto a good semi-private movie torrent site and get your movies for long term storage there.

Thanks for showing me this. Apparently my filter bubble filtered this out of my reality until now.

Sounds right. Both the act of policing piracy and receiving spam are extremely invasive on a very personal level, that is why people seem to take that stance.

I'm sure you have wonderful first hand experience, evidence and documentation to back your claims up, and that you are totally qualified to make these statements.