Doh, thats what I get for not RTFA. So this ruling really only applies to a fairly specific set of conditions? Is the headline of 'First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply to Licensed Software' accurate?

I don't understand how this is any different. Surely AutoDesk doesn't sell directly to consumers. Which would mean, instead of publishers dealing with retailers with a wholesaler middle man, we have publishers dealing with consumers with the retailers as middle men. Right?

When did half life two come out? I remember my machine at the time didn't have internet (no modem, and I was living at my parents without broadband) and I was irate that my brand new single player game needed to get on the internet before I could even install it!

So anyway, Wikipedia says Nov 2004 is when HL2 was released, and while it might not have been the first, thats still 5.5 years ago they were implementing what blizzard seems to be implementing here.

It really has been a while since we had un-restrictive drm in games. Funny how we just get used to it after a while...

An echo of the Great Lisbon Earthquake.  Once again the question arises if  God is good and omnipotent.  Pat Robertson is convinced God is (good and omnipotent) and therefore there must be a sin preceding the event.

Ah, the religion of technology. So amazingly worthless.

Your right all sports are fixed.

Perhaps it is mainly in the web forms where it really slows down, but I tend not to use it for that - in the SMS interface and the facebook app it is very responsive.

It would be nice to be able to go back and correct the autocorrect if it picks the wrong word if you are going too fast - a double tap or something that could pop up a list of options, or the ability to just type the word you meant and replace it without having to delete.

As far as I know, you can't "officially" add words to the database - it just seems to learn based on the times you correct it and is more likely in future to offer words that you use when you overrule it. It also learns words and terms that you frequently capitalise, and looks up people's names from your address book as a spelling source so I guess you could use an ugly hack of adding a list of words as a contact to your address book that it would then use as a source.

I don't type in web forms very much with it at all, so I am not seeing the super slowdown - I do notice that the phone generally struggles with performance in the web browser, so I guess it is not surprising and would make the keyboard a pain to use.

"There's no such thing as "intuitive" computer interfaces."

I don't know who you are, but I wish I worked with you. I hear 'I don't like it, it isn't intuitive enough. I don't know what would be better though.' pretty much every day. What they MEAN is 'It looks different. I'm really comfortable with the old text based system. Why do we need buttons again?'

A corollary to your statement is that no UI interaction should be irreversible without a warning. Warnings/Alerts should be restricted to important notifications, so as to avoid training the user to blindly accept them.

It's funny to me (in that painful way) that the average 10 year old can load up the latest video game and be fully into the action in ten, twenty minutes tops. But you put a an average 30 year old in front Excel without a training course and it takes two years before they realize that they can sort tables.

This is what startup scripts are for: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1047697#post1047697

Nope, sorry, for safety reasons all of our building sites use Smart cars.

Wow, do you work for the H.264 guys or something?

Yes, it's trivial to support Theora, not to mention no licensing costs. H.264 costs money today, and will cost even more from 2011.

As for content, duh. See what the actual Slashdot story is all about?

For Google, it's probably cheaper to pay slightly more for Theora storage than the outrageous cost of H.264 in the future.

The point with control is that smaller platforms/companies won't easily be able to pay the insane prices the owners are going to charge.

BTW, that last link of yours is from 2007. Using Theora 1.0. Epic fail on your part.

All you seem capable of is spreading FUD and lies against Theora.

Xvid and divx (mpeg-4 part 2) are far less resource-intensive than h.264. I don't know if anyone's ever tried playing a reasonably sized h.264 encoded video on a PIII, but it usually doesn't work out so well. Avi and divx I'm not so sure about, but I don't see why they had to get rid of xvid. Maybe I'm behind the times, but most of the time when I decide to re-encode something it's because I need to play it on a slow budget box like the ones they have at school.