Agree, SG-1 was great fun, a classic, Atlantis was ok fun, Stargate Universe is boooooring. I blame BSG.

Press Freedom Index 2010: US at #20. With the Nordic countries, Netherlands and Switzerland at the top.

What country are you in? It's really only US that have Bing yet (rebranding old Live Search in all the other countries to Bing without actually having the product is an amazing decision btw..) and a search for VLC on Bing US gives me a very useful and relevant top result. With direct links to download even for Mac and Ubuntu versions:

http://imgur.com/RGqtA.jpg

I'm curious, did you actually experience Netscape 6 (the alternative at the time) as something better?

Mozilla also ignores SVG fonts, as they should (enter WOFF), but you are right in that they are not a company. They are both right, and both deserve kudos for standing up to the hysteria of artificial 100 score on Acid3.

Firefox does 97, IE9 does 95 on Acid3.

You could argue that they didn't listen to consumers, or developers, but did it because they were under investigation for anti-competitive behavior on this, both in US and EU. A conviction on this would be tough on the image, even for Apple.

argh.. the correct link to MS' free anti-virus/malware is of course:

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

(when promoting being up to date, linking to an out of date version was a pretty ironic screw-up.. :)

The biggest problem is people not using them - not using automatic windows update (or very frequently manual) and not having up-to date malware and antivirus (it's free and some, like this one, are not the resource hogs fx old Norton was infamous for.)

Nothing is 100% secure, but boy to this take care of most of it, as you correctly are saying (when I turn my sarcasm detector off :)

fx Windows had actually Conficker patched quite early, in Windows Update, it became the big ongoing epidemic because of unpatched machines (people not doing auto- or frequent updates, for some reason or other).

And some people are probably going to suggest Mac or Linux at this point, fair enough, but for people that wants or needs to use Windows, it isn't that hard to have a quite secure and trouble free Windows 7 setup (decade old XP is starting to be another story).

Uhm.. can you point to where you see that? Here are the notes: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4188

I could say my experience is the complete opposite, which it is, but since both are just anecdotal it made me curious to find out if there are any data on this.

According to Flickr usage statistics iPhone is the most used camera on Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/cameras/

Just one datapoint, I know. But seems at the very least to disprove the hardly used by anybody theory. I would guess, but have no data, that the complete different experiences people have on this comes down to demographic differences (mobile markets and usage very different from country to country, and age group to age group, etc).

Myself I find I'm using my mobile camera more, they have gotten quite good, and regular camera less. But I could still agree with your claim it is just because I don't have another camera with me, because that is mostly true, I usually don't go around with a camera, but I absolutely always have my mobile with me (currently a HTC HD2, so not in the iPhone group myself)

This, and the left side search refinement panel Google have introduced, are both directly lifted from Bing. Google adopting it is probably going to make it tougher for Bing, having to come up with other differentiators to compete with Google, but nice to see that competition is working and driving innovation in the search space.

Is Apple actually calling iTunes for Windows for a sub-standard app? That perhaps should be banned from the platform? Apple themselves are using non-native API intermediate layers such as CoreFoundation and CoreGraphics in their implementation of iTunes for Windows.