More like how many will just go use yousendit or mediafire or rapidshare or filesonic or...

Actually, the real question is, how many people (especially those people routinely uploading copyrighted content) -already- use all of those other sites. And the answer is probably "most of them". [insert statement about hydra heads.]

Except you can't. Different products being interchangeable would be exactly what we'd like. I have an mp3 player, which was advertised as having Android! Cool, I thought, if I ever want to run any apps, now I could. And at first, that was true. Now, however, that mp3 player is still stuck with Android 1.6, and it's a royal pain finding apps that I can still use (I only recently found a decent media-playing app it will run, cause the native UI for the player is also terrible. My impression is that app started life specifically because its creator had the same mp3 player, and was just as frustrated with the situation as the rest of us.)

Nothing major is wrong with XP. Several things are wrong with Win7. I do have Win7 at home, cause I got a new laptop a year ago and didn't have much choice (and even if I felt like replacing the OS with a copy of XP from elsewhere, I'd have to fight with all the hardware, which I'm sure wasn't tested on XP since it's not supposed to be supported any more).

But after getting Win7, I had to find replacements or other hacks for dang near every piece of the visible UI, before I could call it useable. Some of them were just designed to look and feel like XP, or, more accurately, like Win2k; some of them were actually better than XP/Win2k, it's not like I would claim either of those OSes were perfect. They were just entirely useable, which is more than I can say about the mess of a UI that Win7 provides.

So I'm keeping my XP at work until IT pries it out from under me, because I don't feel like dealing with the same issues again. (Plus, it's nice to have developers working on different OSes. After all, we sell to precisely the sort of people who are going to want our software to continue to work on XP and on Win2k and Win2k3 for all eternity.)

Yep, every time we get a news post about fracking, I know I'll find some good comments from BSG fans, but, indeed... this post in particular had a pretty excellent headline for completely misinterpreting it. To the extent that it actually took me a sec to parse it the correct way, and I -do- know what it actually means to people who study engineering and aren't fans of scifi tv.

That said, it was originally spelled "frack", I believe; the new series decided to spell it "frak", but I like the originally spelling more, so I keep spelling it that way. :p

How I read it: earthquakes may be cause by an Ohio oil well that needed to be further the frack away from... something?

Well, that or the high prices. There are certainly a handful of movies I'd be happy to see; while I won't argue that there's a lot of junk, I feel like there's always been a lot of junk, we just only remember the good movies of other eras and forget all the crap ones. But I'm not going to pay 11 bucks to get to a theater and have to watch awful loud advertisements until the previews start... and then have half the "previews" actually turn out to be advertisements as well. If theaters want to do that, they should let us in for free. Otherwise, they should go back to the system of only displaying still, silent ads before the show starts (I didn't mind those), and leaving the preview time for actual movie previews (I didn't mind those either). Then I might actually start going to movies again.

Glad I'm not the only one who thought of The Doctor. Though my first thought was, "impermanently". Though, granted, I believe he technically only has one more regeneration before they have to either recancel the show or (more likely) deus ex machina some way to give him more. ;)

Bitcoins, duh. (Seriously, I played with bitcoins for a few days when I heard about them the first time, then got bored of them. But I imagine an order like that would be a major win for bitcoins or some other such similar system.)

Holy carp, really? It's actually happening this time? There's been a movie coming out "in a couple years" for like a decade (seriously, I remember being excited to hear that a movie was in the works, when I was in high school). But hey, wikipedia says it's actually been cast this time, so it must be for real. (Ender's Game may actually have been my intro to sci-fi. It has a special place in my brain; I've been looking forward to the movie for a long time, so it had better not suck.)

Also, major +1 to Sanderson. By no means my intro to fantasy (I just learned of him a few months back), but that trilogy is certainly up near the top of the list of good fantasy literature. You can visit his site and read in-depth commentary he wrote on all his books, too, which is kind of interesting.

Everything I've posted to facebook about work, and everything I've posted to facebook about my personal life, has been posted to the same profile.

Yes, all 0 posts.