Not to mention it did fail once...

Is the VA as good as the best private hospitals? No, it's not the Mayo Clinic. But better than average? Hell yes. The VA is one of the best-run government programs.

Speaking as the son of a 30-year VA doctor, and of a 30-year St. Jude Children's Hospital doctor (once acknowledged as the best in pediatric oncology). I've seen how they both run inside and out, and the VA is much, much better run than most private hospitals. It's one of the best services we've provided to our veterans and their families.

Yup, just like the failure of the iPod that idiots predicted was inevitable for years. Now they've moved on to the iPhone - great, more shlock.

That said, Android is a far better alternative model than the iPod competitors were, but dragging out the tired, old, and inaccurate "Mac vs PC in the 80's" model is just tiresome and worthless. There are so many variances (probably the biggest being price - the iPhone isn't more expensive than its competitors) that it's just a stupid comparison to make, generally only made by PC trolls.

It exceeded iPhone sales, not iPhone OS, as iPhone OS includes the iPod Touch and iPad. The sales of the iPod Touch are far from insubstantial.

Meanwhile, iPhone sales are down because new ones are due in June, as they have been the last three years. People know this (and if they don't, they ask a geek friend who does), and sales drop. Just watch, they'll skyrocket in June/July, just as they have the last couple years.

Yes, because a couple-hour game of golf is comparable to spending weeks clearing brush.

Obligatory.

So which is it, fact or opinion? Oh right, it's both - opinion masquerading as fact.

Despite the handover in 1997, Hong Kong is still very much its own entity, sharing more in common with Seoul and Tokyo than with, say, Shanghai. They have protests, marches, and as far as I could tell the internet wasn't subject to the Great Firewall. Having been there three months ago and a wife there now, I *think* I can say that much.

An interesting observation, but when you have significant amounts of common data that are useful to be exposed - timestamps, dimensions, aspect ratio, framerate, samplerate were mentioned - then these should be stored in a standardized format and location. No need to make 7 layers when two will do the job every bit as well.

Well that was a load of paranoia. There are clearly technical problems with the format - but according to you any criticism must be funded by the evil MPEG-LA!

Yes, and clearly the couple billion people in Asia "don't count" compared to your ethnocentrism.

Just because *you* never saw them doesn't mean they weren't successful. Head to Asia - they still sell them by the truckload aside DVD and Blu-Ray, and displaced VHS over 15 years ago. I bought a few dozen a couple months back because they were cheap and easy to copy to the computer. Then I remembered just how awful MPEG-1 looked.

Ogg video (Theora) is most certainly nowhere near H.264 (MP4). Every independent (non-Xiph-run) test has shown that. Xiph's "proof" was comparing against H.263, which is an ancient codec.

A different argument with the same result - it's unusable.

Given how much they take in on support contracts, I wouldn't be surprised. You're unlikely to find any other Linux variant in managed hosting - that's a lot of Red Hat support, which means a lot of dollars and a lot of scrutiny on stability and security.