I guess you didn't watch the video ( nor did the guys who moded you insightful) : they do track the position of the driver's eyes with camera pointing toward him.

It's not a toolbar, it's your address bar since Firefox 3.0 (assuming you use Firefox 3.0+ of course).

The awesome bar is the name of the new auto-completion system in Firefox's address bar. For example, it will log the title of each page you visit, so you can find a page by typing relevant words of the title (instead of a somewhat cryptic url).

I'm in the "Sometimes Useful but Love it" group. I use it only sometimes because I'm used to type urls of my favorite sites. However, when i need to retrieve a random page I browsed before, it's definitely awesome.

Mod this up. It's been known for years that IBM and others hardware companies need software to sell their machines and therefore it makes sense for them to be involved in Open Source. By reducing the cost of software to zero, they manage to get more hardware sales.
Software companies on the other hand don't have such incentive to go Open Source, since that reduce the dollar value of their product. And therefore you see MS opposing Open Source.
The odd one is/was...Sun, a company that never decided whether it was a hardware (servers) or software company (Java, Solaris, ...).

Quoted from your article "By Luke Smith, 09/20/2006"

Considering we're in 2009, that the game still isn't out, and that they're was multiple changes made to the game and it's release schedule during theses years, i wouldn't put much faith in that article now.

I'm a developper, so I'm pretty computer-savvy, but have been using Ubuntu like a standard user (for tasks such as email, Internet, chat) for several years. That means I don't want to have to type console commands to set up standard things (like being able to share my files with my Windows PC with Samba...Ubuntu 7.x was a pain for that, Ubuntu 8.04 made this disappear and made me happy). Therefore, I don't read Ubuntu forums, and don't follow planned evolutions but I do update to each new Ubuntu version on release.

All this to say that I didn't know about this bug report/controversy for automatic update version. However this change was one of the first things I noticed on 9.04 and was very happy about it. Although I always clicked on the little icon to update my softwares in previous versions (i know how important updates are), this change makes updating easier, therefore it makes my life as a basic user easier and it's one more step in the right direction (and an important one that increases the likelihood i will one day recommends Ubuntu for less computer-savvy people, because it will help them keep their software updated).

So IMHO Shuttleworth was right on that one, and you should have used the STFU testing method before complaining.

MySQL is a brand which started to get well-known for entreprises. Look at PostGreSQL for another open-source database which for now doesn't have the marketshare nor the recognition it could have based solely on his technical merits.
So, MySQL is/was more than a bunch of code files that can be forked, it's a real company that started to make a dent in the database market, driving cost down for customers of such products, and producing incentive for both Oracle and MS to lower the prices of their products/enhance them to keep them competitive. By buying MySQL, Oracle removed one of its two competitors.
Sure, a newcomer may step in later on, and others open-source projects are likely candidates, but for now the market has only 3 players.

I don't know anything about Left 4 Dead, but it is a known fact that MS can fix prices for at least some of the DLC : i know the (awesome) Castle Crashers' team wanted their DLC free, but MS decided people should pay for it. Here is a proof : http://devblog.thebehemoth.com/?p=516 . The team even offered some MS points to counter this for their most loyal fans : http://devblog.thebehemoth.com/?p=1095

Sorry but that depends on people. I've been a book lover since the age of six, but if you tell me the end of a book before i finish it, you almost kill the book for me. It will be hard for me to finish reading the book.
What i like in the book is to see things unravel one by one in a process that leads you from a starting situation till the unknown final situation. I like to ask myself "hmm this will probably ends like this", "will that character survives ? I'm not sure", or "can the character get out of this pinch ?". It doesn't need to be a major plot twist, it happens for every book from great classics to cheap moderns thrillers. Sure you have violent deaths, plot twists in any spy book, but you also have character/relationship evolutions in War and Peace.
If you tell me the final situation before hand, I won't care anymore about what happens, because I don't think "I'm at instant X with the main character, what happens next ?" anymore, I'm already at the final moment, instant X is past and no longer relevant.
That's also why i can't read the same book twice, or why i hate flashback books (Dark Tower IV, i'm looking at you).

That looks like a good idea, and many people are already expecting Jumpgate Evolution as something fresh and new. However, every single MMORPG to date, has claimed before release to have new ideas, good balance between classes, interesting PvP and PvE. Most of them failed one of theses areas, and many failed all. That's why I take theses new claims with a big grain of salt.
So i say let's wait till the game is released and thoroughly tested by everyone...then we will see if this is more than marketing talk.