Kodak is still the Eastman Kodak Company even after spinning off Eastman Chemicals, see for instance Kodak's own press release about going into bankruptcy protection. So calling them Eastman Kodak is accurate, if perhaps a little formal.

Plus, the mysterious disappearance of the Bill Gates as a Borg icon for Microsoft stories,,, (It just about managed to survive to the latest "not as good as the HTML 3 version"[1] relaunch with a crappy illustrated version, but that seems to have disappeared in place of a generic Microsoft logo on new stories...

Slashdot just isn't right anymore...

[1] If anyone does know how to use this newfangled Javascript based comment system, just don't bother telling me how to use it, like all sensible people I turned it off when it was first introduced years ago, and have no intention of learning how it works./p

The Nt prefix seem to indicate it's part of Windows' Native (kernel) API. It isn't that well documented. Safari is probably going via the public Win32 API, which calls the Native API when kernel services are needed. It's a bit (kinda, sorta) like on Linux where a user programme won't usually directly call the kernel, but libc will call it when needed.

After a bit bit of playing "let's intentionally crash Windows", it seems that using the Windows Classic skin fixes the bug, and the page renders fine (if a little uninteresting, it's basically a long page with a box on it). It BSODs on Windows Basic and Aero. I haven't a clue if this is a real fix, or if it's just that the magic number needed to crash the system is different with Windows Classic compared with Basic / Aero. Windows XP (32 bit) is fine as well (again page renders fine, no crashes of anything).

I personally think it's largely a Windows bug, even if Safari has a bug (that oddly only does anything on one version of Windows, and even then only with certain conditions), a programme doing something stupid should not crash the entire OS.

You can switch back to an old style status bar on IE9. (Other stuff like the menu bar can be switched back on as well, should you want to replicate most of IE's traditional cluttered interface).

Personally, the status bar thing in Firefox 4 confused me, don't like the single menu button? Switch back to a menu bar. Don't like the new tab position? Just switch it back to the old style. But want the old status bar back? No way, it's our way or the highway (well, a third party extension).

32 bit programmes (with the large address aware flag set) get 4GB of address space on 64 bit Windows, compared to 2GB / 3GB on 32 bit Windows.

iOS devices can only play a certain subset of MP4 files, not all codec / bitrate / resolution combinations will work. Whatever settings you used for the video side of things are presumably incompatible in some way.

I've personally not had trouble with the few videos I've converted to MP4 for my iPod, but I used Handbrake (which has a set of presets for various Apple devices) not this Format Factory thing.

You seem to be attempting to engage in Apple bashing, and that's fine here as well. It's a pity the article you linked to doesn't back up your assertion that TTFs contain executable code, at least not in the normal sense (it mentions code for a virtual machine to run hinting, but not normal executable code). This doesn't seem to be any issue with the True Type format itself, just an issue with Microsoft's implementation of it.

Seeing as speed (on 15+ year old equipment) was the reason they did it, you're not going to get an answer you like.

People said Windows NT was too slow on their 486s, so one of the things Microsoft did to try and fix that was to move the GDI into the kernel. They didn't think the security and stability side through however, and I doubt if many people are going to call it the greatest decision ever made in the design of an OS.

There are various "luxury" manufacturers, like a Nokia subsidiary called Vertu, who will happily sell you a phone for £8600. If Wikipedia is to be believed, it runs the might power of Symbian, that most prestigious, high end powerhorse of phone OSs (well, actually EPOC32 was nice back in the day...).

There seem to be a few more specialised "luxury" companies, like Goldvish and Mobiado, as well as ones branded as Dior, Tag Heuer etc. They all seem to be what would be considered feature phones (or perhaps low end smartphones in some cases) in stupidly expensive cases. But it's hard to tell, as the actual phone software and specs doesn't seem to be the main focus with these phones for some reason...