My cyanogen 10.1 device does all those things. What's the fuss about?

IntelliJ IDEA does the job for me, surely beats Eclipse in terms of out of box functionality.

Same thing happened with digital music, and is still happening with games and such (Steam games generally cost more than their physical counterpart). It's just business as usual, since we do seem to be paying for it.

Ebooks offer portability and ease of distribution. While I do prefer paper books like most people, I really don't like having to buy a new bookshelf once a year/every other year. Technical books I almost only read on my computer, since I only use them while doing something on my computer. Fiction is much more suited for ebook readers, since it rarely requires jumps in content.

For the most part I just buy the paper book and pirate the digital copy. More often than not I lend/give that book to someone so it doesn't clutter my already burdened bookshelves.

Buy the IKEA stand-up desk, can't remember the exact name. It's relatively cheap and is definitely worth the money.

The code names are just priceless

Don't really see the issue. My IntelliJ IDEA allocates 1GB+ of RAM, Chrome easily tops 3-400MB with some tabs open. Today RAM are so cheap you should just buy more of it.

Gmail uses flash for the drag-n-drop add attachment feature.

I think it was initially speed. I remember yum being very slow in the first few versions, but that was a long time ago. The second and probably real issue is habit.
I guess they are functionally the same.

In the end it's taste. Fedora has always been more FOSS oriented, OpenSUSE has had its ups and downs in terms of package repositories. Ubuntu seemed like the easier choice back in the day (i.e. binary drivers, closed source codecs etc).

There's no such thing as lossless digital audio. Sound being essentially a mathematical function where the points consist of irrational numbers, you would need infinite resolution to capture the analog sound.

Granted you can crank the sampling rate to 96khz and you'll probably have a hard time hearing the difference, but the two recordings will still be inherently different. Analog will always win in terms of resolution, at least in theory. Digital recordings will always have this limit.

I've noticed the exact same thing. Streamlining the interface surely isn't a bad thing, but giving up choice for eye candy just seems so... unlike linux.

Given that OS X is streamlined as hell, and all applications use the same gui library, they have a very consistent look and feel. Linux applications have a hard time achieving that since there's GTK and Qt as the two big contenders.

What I am trying to say is that the idea is a good one, but the execution has yet to prove its worth.

OpenSUSE packages KDE very nicely, fedora I haven't had running for some versions now, but last I checked (11 I think) it was working fine. Both better than Kubuntu, but both have yum instead of apt-get, and that's what kept me om ubuntu-based distros.

Debians packaging is as vanilla as it gets, so it's not that bad. There are some issues, afaik, with default file handlers and such, but nothing some tweaking won't fix.

I've done a few ports from iOS to Android, and the problem most certainly has been that my customers did not use Android phones.

The navigation bar for one is a thing Android does not need. The tabs in the bottom, well let's just say it took some hacking to make it work.

Someone should make an overview of the platforms for business managers etc.

The ports would be easy if the ui was redesigned to fit Android better, but then again, it's just business as usual. As a startup we have a hard time complaining that much to our only customer.

You would buy them because they don't have 3rd generation motion controls and an integrated tablet for touchscreen gaming.

The major turnoff with the Wii, at least for me, is and has always been the motion controls. They are simply too slow and not precise enough for "hardcore" gaming such as FPS. Even the Xbox/PS3 controllers suck at this, and the mouse/keyboard combination will never be beat in that sense.

What consoles offer is simplicity. While the Wii and probably the WiiU will be a social console, but for me Nintendo (insert name) will be the only system I don't have lying around.

I don't believe we've "hit the plateau" of graphics. The only reason for your sub-$100 is able to play those games is because of the Xbox and PS3 (and Wii at times), because their hardware is archaic. My $300 card from 1½ years ago can outperform both PS3 and Xbox 360's graphics chip by a landslide.

The economy argument is valid to a point. Considering that many games are built on licensed engines, I think this will greatly reduce the development costs. If the said engine has uber 1337 graphics, then all games get those features.

I don't get why they don't go with EXT4 or something in that fashion.