The acquisition of PowerSet was a few days ago and is presumably not what is powering Bing. Apologies if this is inaccurate, it's the result of spending 5 seconds skimming the parent's TFA link.

As the IT guy, your job is to optimize the productivity of the people who are getting the film made, right? Therefore you need to do a survey of everybody and find out what software they are all familiar with, and then you need to use that. If you need to train them on new software, then that is not only a waste of your time, but much more importantly, it's a waste of their time. Don't use this as an opportunity to push your agenda. Just get them working immediately using whatever software they are currently comfortable with.

Regular users of Office 2007 and OpenOffice know that Office 2007 isn't merely superior "in some senses". It's in almost every sense, as long as you have a relatively modern computer.

I salute you, sir - whenever the Harkonnens took any prisoners of the civilian population of Arrakis, the survivors held a funeral for the hostages and acted as though they were dead. No leverage, no more hostages.

So, have them keep the guns on the boat and don't bring them into the LBC. We've got enough, thanx.

You omitted that DRM also stops technologically inept users from making copies for their friends. Everyone is not pure of heart.

Why did this even get greenlit as an article? They don't have a replacement architecture ready? STOP THE PRESSES!!! They don't have a replacement architecture yet, either, for the rice paddy, but it's not like this is something of concern or even interest.

If there had been gridlock, your "idiots in the legislature" would not have been able to pass laws implementing programs that cost $43 billion. Gridlock is great, and the founders of the country were geniuses for designing the government to make sure there was plenty of it. If only there could be more.

Ask NASA whether they wish the US had converted to metric 20 years ago.