The article uses the word "hologram" over and over, and comparisons to Star Trek, but the PR video avoids the term 'hologram' and uses "projection" instead. Hologram technology is not used, and people expecting features found in any hologram (paralax viewing, different views from multiple simultaneous points) will be sorely disappointed.

If someone has created a new and useful car, don't call it "a street aeroplane just like the Wright Brothers!"

We've already had people get slapped for birdsong as copyrighted work. An acquaintance of mine is already wrestling with YouTube because he recorded classical music on his guitar, and he's getting slapped because someone else identified it as a copy of their recording, and YouTube has already jammed advertisements into his video to compensate the accuser, as if he already agreed to a plea-bargain.

Too many false positives, and it costs much less for the people who are already wealthy to make false claims than it does for private citizens to defend themselves against the false claims. This stinks to high heaven.

I am disappointed in this year's "Reader's Choice." It mentions "Gmail" as the best Linux app for instant messaging, "Google Docs" as the best Linux(?) app for collaboration, and the "reader's choice" for Linux games have been the same for the past eight years, despite eight years of new developments (Battle for Wesnoth? From 2003? When there's Warzone 2100, OpenTTD, 0 A.D., Heroes of Newerth, Minecraft, Braid, Darwinia, DEFCON, MegaGlest, Amnesia Dark Descent, Aquaria, Tiny & Big, OpenClonk, SpaceChem ... jeez.

I think the "Reader's" part of the "Reader's Choice" may be out-of-touch.

How many of you have forgotten? There have been three Doctor Who movies already.

Why all the butthurt? There's always been alternatives; if you do more with your login screen than "name/password", you can always replace what they gave you out of the box with something else.

moses@deunan:~$ apt-cache search x-display-manager
lightdm - Display Manager
lxdm - GUI login manager for LXDE
slim - desktop-independent graphical login manager for X11
wdm - WINGs Display Manager - an xdm replacement with a WindowMaker look
xdm - X display manager
gdm - GNOME Display Manager
kdm - KDE Display Manager for X11

Most people don't know that the movie version of "I Robot" didn't start that way. It was an entirely different screenplay, the studio got the rights to some of Asimov's short stories, and retrofitted pieces of the Susan Calvin stories onto a screenplay they already had.

That's why "I Robot" didn't seem like the story -- it was another story entirely, decorated with Asimovian merchandise.