Does it matter? We'll still want more.

You mean like how we all use linux on the desktop? ;)

Kidding, of course. Most anyone DOES use linux on the desktop, don't they :)

The difference is that the restaurant states it, the isp doesn't.

And you anticipate the number of desktops to overcome the amount of available ipv6 addresses in how many years? :)
If I'd have to make a guess, I'd say the demand for servers goes up pretty much at the same pace as desktops. "Cloud" computing will take care of that.

On the other hand, it pretty much is Microsoft's fault for encouraging the user to go into a dumb un-automated point-and-click usage mode. Most windows users don't even dream of automating the repetitive things they do!

I haven't used foxit very much but of the pdf readers I've tried (evince, kpdf, epdfview, xpdf), evince evince seems to behave closest to what I would expect a pdf/document reader to behave.

You don't even have to set the entertainment industry back to the 40's. Starwreck is a good example of that.

At least for music, something like magnatune is a good example. Tv shows could be distributed via bittorrent as normal avi files with comercials embedded, you know, a bit like tv but without the tv.

Use a little imagination and you will find many ways of making money from selling something else than the actual copies, which cost nothing.

True. Parent should've linked to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woosh instead.

Because they might not need them or have room for them? You don't go off buying 10% more milk when it's 10% cheaper, you save money.

I guess the homes that would be heated will already have some sort of heating, maybe they will use that to compliment getting less data center heat.

Wait, it wasn't a joke?

Seconding that, my lenovo x61t with arch linux already boots faster than my nokia e61i. And I haven't even optimised my boot sequence.

Bleh. At least there are some achievements left for us high UID:s.

Uh oh. I feel pretty embarassed to admit this but it seems like the chromium I installed via AUR (arch user repository) actually IS a wine wrapper :)

It might not be a wine wrapper but it sure feels like one!

It works slow as hell (read: slower than firefox) on my arch-laptop and everything feels very windowish, single clicking on the url bar selects the text like it does in the windows firefox. Do not want.

Hope it gets better for the official chrome release.