No, it wouldn't be nice. It would be $5 million wasted on SETI@Home.

This is totally subjective. Extensibility it clearly loses out to everyone - Microsoft and it's corporate customers do not want it to be extensible, so I doubt it will be. In terms of speed, I think Chrome/Firefox/IE/Opera are all fast enough. They all load quickly, render pages quickly, execute Javascript quickly - a lot of this is thanks to Chrome pushing that envelope, but everyone else seems to have caught up by now. For the first time in a long time, I am of the opinion that all of the major browsers for Windows are good enough. It basically comes down to personal preference at this point. I typically use Chrome as my primary browser and IE9 for the handful of random sites that don't quite work properly with Chrome.

BS, it takes a half hour, tops. Following this wiki http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Rooting will walk you through it. The only decision you have to make it deciding which software version of nookCOLOR you have. The only reason it would take longer is if you are messing with replacing the whole system, but a basic root with marketplace support takes very little time at all.

IE9 was officially released last week.

And you'll say, "Get off my lawn!!!!!"

Tell that to all Geocities users. Sometimes, things die forever and all is lost.

Fallout: New Vegas is a horrible example - it's a buggy piece of crap even on Xbox360, and the only game I've ever played that has managed to lock up my console. The game itself is good, but the bugs, especially the crash bugs, make it incredibly frustrating.

A huge portion (if not most) of the profits come from the enterprise space, where often you buy the biggest, best servers. Sure, for an average desktop a cheap AMD chip might be a better choice, but for an enterprise server (or a high end VM server), performance is king and AMD isn't even competitive.

That's only partially true. The betting odds and lines are not there to predict a winner - they are there to try and get equal money on each side of the table. More often than not, the end result is that it is pretty accurate, but that's largely due to wisdom of crowds. Predicting winners is not goal of the people who set the lines. As for the other comment, no team in any sport will be overwhelming favorites to win at the beginning of the season, due to the vagaries of small sample sizes. Picking the Phillies to make the playoffs in Major League Baseball is a safe bet - after 162 games, generally talent wins out (they are -300 to win their division). But give them three additional playoffs series after that, each of which is a race to four games, and luck plays a much larger role (+200 to win the World Series). The NFL is even more difficult (New England +500) because the season itself is so short that luck plays a much bigger role all year long.

Amen. Take for instance Cisco's biggest, baddest firewall - it can handle 2 million concurrent connections. Do people realize how trivially easy it is to to create 2 million connections? After you fill the connection table, it's game over. Other firewall vendors have similar breaking points - it's just a matter of how big your connection table can become. Also, with the rise of SSL on public facing web servers, firewalls are little more than stateful bottlenecks waiting to explode - there's not higher level protections there. People stick with them for regulatory reasons, but they provide very little protection in many, many scenarios.