The sell commercials to based on certain people in certain places watching at certain times. This breaks that model completely and makes prime time (the most expensive) available to people who don't fit who the ads were targeted to. That "Wastes" the ad buyers money.

The big screen, the excitement, the chance to get away from the house. That makes the environment exciting.

The cost and noisy others are drawbacks but that doesn't happen as often as I read about.

And if they don't, the established parties will to avoid vote splitting.

Good thinking! If we all just eat junk food and do whatever we want, there can't be any negative consequences! I'm glad there are people like you to show the way.

When I was redesigning the Amazon front-end in HTML5, Dear Leader sent me a note about using CSS3 descritors that saved me over 50000 hours of work! I'm sure that others have the same story!

Dear Leader knew everything about Internets!

I showed my Android phone to my 2 year old and within minutes she was fed up. To her, all those icons and such were baffling. But then I showed her a windows 7 phone and she ate it up! It spent far more time in her mouth than any other phone in the house!

From their updates page:

"The Transition:

The Whisper Systems software as our users know it will live on (and we have some surprises in store that we're excited about), but there is unfortunately a transition period where we will have to temporarily take our products and services offline. RedPhone service will be interrupted immediately, but FlashBack users have a month to pull off any backup data they would like before that service also goes offline. "

But you have to opt-out for each ad as it appears on your page. That's the problem!

Ummm "through clear or translucent core walls". Read it again.

After all, every other framework of the month has lasted for 30 years, Hadoop will have at least as much staying power as Ruby on Rails!