Longtime Windows user, eh? I'm sorry to hear that.

More conservative? Ugh, conservative policy for the internet would suggest that going forward it remain liberated and experimental. In this case, conservative is not the opposite of liberal.

Seriously, what world do you live in where you don't have to develop your application against a design specification?

Based on my experiences with Open Source developers, I would not expect to find any firmware patches out there for an alarm clock (of all things).

Okay, but going to McDonalds is practically begging for a multitude of other health problems.

Can anyone enlighten me as to why the term 'vector' is used in this context? It's an attack. There's no fixed point in space with a direction component.

I think you have to be listening to Nine Inch Nails during the act, as well.

Wait till they bundle emacs with iTunes.... our heads will asplode.

As are Avatar and Dances with Wolves. Derp.

I don't see why they'd stop it. No one smokes cigarettes today because marijuana is illegal.

The difference between native and html5 is decreasing over time.. css and javascript can do it, it's just that the frameworks and graphical assets have to be packaged in.. you get them free in native cocoa.

I disagree with this. A music track exists to sound good, so degradation of quality transitively degrades its' purpose. However, not every image on the web was designed to be an artistic masterpiece. For most use cases, smaller filesize for slight drop in quality is a reasonable tradeoff. You can still use PNG for the stuff that you want to render just a certain way; remember, most of us have monitors that inject their own "noise" into the color spectrum of the photos we're watching. Besides, this is all up to the guy (or gal) hosting the website. Since (presumably) it's their content, I think it's fair that they have the choice to choose the quality/compression level that both saves bandwidth costs and looks good.

It's people like you that make me bother not even using the word irony anymore.

BP has allegedly set aside billions for claims.

You better be thankful this happened to such a massive evil megacorp that can actually afford reparations. Most of the offshore operations in the Gulf are managed and owned by much smaller companies that would just go belly up if this happened to them.

I'm obviously not a fan of BP -- clearly they've blown it big time (pun intended) -- but we should be grateful that this happened to a company with deep enough pockets to be around for the long term fix.

I also don't get the hangup with ping using POST. It's just a word that shows up in the HTTP dialog. According to HTTP spec, POST would make more sense for this, since you're essentially publishing tracking information to a site.