OS X has had hardware accelerated Quartz, "Quartz Extreme" since 10.2 Jaguar, available August 2002, so close enough to 10 years.

And yeah, as another replier notes, NEXTSTEP had hardware accelerated blitting in the 1980s. The window manager on a NeXT Cube is not noticeably less snappy moving windows around than a Mac of today.

Could this be the year of Windows 8 on the desktop??

Chernobyl was a big ball of s**t that only proved the US had better procedures, precautions, and design than the Russians

Wow. Go look up hubris in a dictionary.

Proper lexical closures (such as exist in Scheme and JavaScript) cannot be implemented in Java or C++.

hoping that Dropbox and partners will not start telling people what can/can't be backed up

Oh come on—I'd be surprised if this wasn't already happening. Read the fine print.

So Microsoft and Saint "I'm an honest rich man! And a hero!" Gates reap free publicity from this kid even in death.

People still use Windows????

You think /evidence/ is needed?! Undesirables not only face detention without charge or trial, they also now face state assassination. Is that legal? Who cares; it's not being challenged, is it.

TEPCO clearly didn't confess it was unsafe before the tsunami. So this rule is worthless.

That said, I didn't RTFA. But any loophole is inevitably exploited by profiteers.

Or, here are some interesting alternatives.