It's even more absurd than that. He said if you make $50/hr you really make $16.70/hour. Unless hr is a new metric of time that I am unfamiliar with rather than an abbreviation for hour, his statement is absolute gibberish.

I might have written that comment a few years ago, but in recent history Firefox is seriously sluggish. My only allegiance to using it now stems from the extensions I am accustomed to now.

Sorry, should have also mentioned this, which is what SWFObject is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolas#Workarounds.

These are the spawn of Satan that forced the whole web to change the way they embed Flash movies, among other things.

You're just one of the elitist geeks who doesn't get the appeal. Most of those things you mentioned were design decisions to limit the amount of complexity built into the system. It does what nearly everyone wants of a digital music player, does those things well, and makes them easy and approachable. Modding and computer enthusiast stuff may be your thing, but don't be so narrow-minded to think that is what matters to more than a small cadre of people on /.

Wow, as a geek you should have the most appreciation for Snow Leopard. It's the regular folks who Apple should worry about underwhelming.

Haha, this tired rant is still so funny. Thanks for making it yet again. Twit.

We only like to use it when it actually makes sense. Go figure.

No. They probably won't either because they have Apple Lossless.

It's pretty simple really.

Companies have been doing this at other places, like Amazon.com, for years. Buyers beware.

This just goes to show that prices should be in terms of usage, like other utilities. That is what ISPs are now. The sooner they begin to be treated as such, the better.

Balboa Park in San Diego, CA is a fun destination with several museums.

Isn't it kind of like all other forms of digital media? Sure you can download most of it for free, but getting it from an official source is generally more convenient and of higher quality.

Wouldn't the mythical deep packet inspection mentioned by the summary interfere with and degrade lawful traffic? It seems like only tactics which do not degrade legitimate traffic would be admissible from my uninformed understanding of this legislation.