The ability to play any video codec, browse the web, play mods, and do other tasks impossible on a console?

I'd rather sit in my comfy computer chair, chat with friends on Teamspeak as well as in-game chat, and alt tab out of the game to browse the web inbetween rounds. It's not so much the graphics, its the convenience of being able to do more than just sit there and play games.

That could be because of the heavy autoaim you get in any game that has a regular controller. With most of the Wii shooters I've played there isn't much in the way of autoaim. At least not as much as something like Halo or COD.

For sure! There is a tiling option for kwin but its nowhere near as good as xmonad.

Icons are unnecessary - after you open a window all your icons will get covered up anyway. It's by far more convenient to use a quick launch mechanism like alt-f2 or store your icons on a panel that can't be covered as soon as you open a window.

Also note that KDE4 does have desktop icons. You just have to turn them on in the desktop settings.

It's more powerful than you think - have a look at this blog post. With a little QScript you can include any logic you want with no messy PyQt binding or C++ needing compilation.

That's why they made Qt's QML

What if you have the shiny new virus that modifies the checker after you just downloaded it? Also, when can I get a copy of the checker that runs on an old Windows XP machine or my Fedora boxes? I don't think its "reasonable" to expect me to run the latest Windows to get my banking done.

Sorry, but no. The hardware behind h.264 decoding is usually general purpose. All it would take is a software driver to accelerate a new codec.

You've obviously never tried it. It shows the link you're hovering on in the URL bar now. As for blocking a slow domain, I don't think the average user is going to care about that. Install adblock and 90% of the laggy ad sites go away.

And as for targeting the geek market, I'm pretty sure the thousands of addons let you customize Firefox into your perfect idea of what a browser should be.

It would probably be a lot easier to dump it into sqlite or something similar.

You can release the code for a game but still sell the media. Did you think Id just gives their games away for free? All the Quake code in the world is useless without a pak file to play.

I don't know about you, but I'd rather play classic Playstation roms and my gigantic MAME collection than the kind of Windows games that don't run in Wine (especially DRM-laden works like MW2)

It's not like their server couldn't log the IP along with the anonymous comment. And what about services like 10minutemail, mailinator, or guerrila mail? I doubt hunting down someone by one of those email addresses would be any easier than just using whatever IP they posted under.

I'm not talking about exploits. Cracking a ps3 opens up the software to all sorts of modification - compare it to rooting an android phone and putting custom firmware on. If the hardware vendor won't fix their product, people will fix it on their own with mods.