The quickest way to get me off your site/article is by making me watch an ad before the video starts. I don't like watching videos when I could just read an article in general, but something occasionally seems interesting enough that I click play. As soon as I see the 'your video will begin in 15 seconds' or hear some ad start, I close the tab and move on. I understand that ads are needed for some sites to generate revenue, but you've got my attention for _seconds_ so when I have to spend any length of that time watching a commercial I just move on.

I think it can be hard to plan for this far into the future. Look how much the web has changed, and the things we do now with even just HTML and CSS that people back in the beginning probably would never have even considered doing. You build something for your needs and if it works then you are good. Sometimes you don't want to spend time planning it out for the next 5, 10, 20 years because you assume (usually correctly) that what you are writing will be updated long before then and replaced with something else.

Don't we already know that babies can pick out shapes/voices/etc that take computers all sorts of processing power to figure out. Or how we are still trying to refine things like recognizing a face or depth or whatever, when people just 'know'. The brain is still amazing despite all the power computers now have, regardless of human or insect species.

It's certainly a strength to have so many options available for technical users, but normal users get confused by just the few version of Windows out there. Try and explain the various versions/distribution options for Linux and they immediately start thinking how maybe they'll just stick with Windows. I personally love OS X, and even among friends/family who know that and trust me for tech advice, they have a hard time thinking of anything outside Windows/Microsoft. There are lots of reasons why Linux hasn't taken off, but I don't know that I'd call it dead.

I can agree with the complaints about some of this at least. I hate when I go to read an article and instead its a video piece/interview/etc about the topic. I can't just open it and read at my discretion, not to mention how almost every video link seems to start with some commercial. Sure, you need to make money, but you just lost any interest I have. I do fear that this will become what the web is. I also can't be doing much else, I have to stop and engage directly with the video instead of opening interesting sounding articles that I can peruse anytime I want. I suppose I could re-watch the video or pause/rewind/play but that's not what I'm after.

I know companies that don't bother figuring out the 'hidden' cost of keeping their workstations or servers up to date. Then one day they realize they need to upgrade 30+ system all at once for some new piece of software they want. When they can't budget/manage/understand something as straightforward as hardware maintenance and upkeep, how are they going to understand something less physical like software 'debt' or whatever they are labeling it now.

Thank you. I was thinking the same thing. My wife always gets a laugh when some TV show makes some terrible geek stereotype (especially roleplaying games), and I just shake my head and think it's funny how much she gets a kick out of teasing me.

We make stereotyped jokes about rednecks and users and outsourced tech support and whatever the enemy du jour is of the day. It's ok to laugh at ourselves, and realize that people are making the same jokes about geeks that we are about everyone else.

I think the point they are trying to make (and perhaps badly) is that anytime you have to rely on volunteers you have the potential to get bit in the ass. Any volunteer organization or group has this problem, it's not just open source. Churches, after school groups, the Elks, etc. When volunteers are the main way you expect to get support, you are at their whim. This week people are busy, so no one shows up, or the kids have a soccer game, or some new more exciting group has their interest so you lose a few people.

I don't think the idea is that the open source community is going to screw people, but that the idea of expecting volunteers to always be plentiful and useful is a good way to cause yourself problems.

This is an exact copy of what is posted on Amazon, and is the only review there.

Why did it take so long? I don't spend that much time on Facebook, but I know I spend more time than I do searching. I mean, how do you linger for any real length of time in Google? You search and look through the results. Sometimes you look through a few pages, maybe re-work the search a few times, but in the end most of the time spent is on that page you are searching for a link for. Unless this is counting gmail and things like that.

Something about the carpenter's house or the cobbler's kids have no shoes. I work for a computer support company, and this happens to us and everyone else. Backups/patches/etc don't get tended to unless someone up the chain knows how important they are and makes it get done. Even then it's hard to keep on top of _everything_ unless you really have people dedicated to it. It's no surprise, and I don't think it's any reason to be angry. It just shows that they need to get better organized about it like everyone does..

Maybe I'm too geeky, but I have a Mac Mini because it does all the things the Apple TV does, plus more. I guess for a simple consumer device it is more than most people want, but it lets me watch/stream/etc all those things I want it to. And my PS3 does my BluRay as well as DVD so I don't need another disc player. There are so many options out there that I think we are going to see this slowly take over as more viable, but I don't see it taking off over night so much as slowly build.

I still get on Facebook, but not as much as I did when I first hopped on. It's nice to get on a few times a day to just see photos or messages from friends, but I don't linger unless I want to maybe chat with someone who is on. Certainly people go crazy and are on all day (doing what, I don't know.. Farmville I guess), but it's not without merit. They made it very easy to find and message with friends. There can be drawbacks when people can track you down that easily, but for most people the worst they have to worry about is some annoying high school friend wanting to say hi.

They mention that in the article, and it makes sense given how controlling Apple/Jobs is about product look and feel. Why spend thousands of man hours researching design if you are just going to gum it up with stickers almost as an afterthought. For the most part I don't mind the Intel sticker, but the rest do bug me. I appreciate my Macbook Pro being clean from the get-go.

I patent the process of locking up my house when I leave? Or maybe the process of how I get out of my car when I go somewhere? Is there really a need/ability to patent this type of thing? And more so why does the patent office still allow it?