Oh, so that's how the Powerpuff Girls hold things, and why Buttercup thought Professor Utonium's hands didn't work in that body switch episode ("Criss Cross Crisis").

At an often severe cost in file size, I've found. And doing so often requires using Winamp anyway in disk writer mode, as the reference player is a Winamp input plug-in.

Audio player software included on mobile devices requires audio to first be transcoded to MP3, MP4, or (in the case of Android) Vorbis. That sort of hurts if you have a big collection of files in sequenced formats, such as NSF, MIDI, or MOD. Transcode an NSF to MP3, for instance, and you've ballooned the file size by a factor of 100. Winamp solved this problem through an input plug-in architecture, but mobile device manufacturers seem to require the transcoding in order to get users to buy devices with larger flash memories at inflated prices.

What do you think the "codec pack" is? As I understand it, a codec pack is just a curated set of input plug-ins.

Different users have different needs. If one person wants obscure format A, and another person wants obscure format B, and a third person wants obscure format C, then the most efficient way to handle the different needs is to make a player with an input plug-in architecture. Or are you claiming that "most people would have no need for a player supporting" any obscure format?

Does VLC play MOD, S3M, XM, IT, or other tracked formats? Does VLC play NSF, SGC, GBS, VGM, SPC, PSF, USF, PSF2, GSF, 2SF, or any other video game console-oriented formats? All of the above have Winamp input plug-ins.

It would infringe copyright. The key difference here is that merging privacy tools with a browser distributed under a free software license does not infringe copyright.

Cash and gold take a lot longer to send from one continent to another than Bitcoin.

Probably just a fan of Tetris, whose author has claimed in an interview that free software "destroys the market".

Internet Explorer and Safari are produced in Ireland for tax purposes.

I don't see how Firefox with Tor is so confusing.

There are web browsers based on the work of the Firefox and Chromium open source projects that allow browsing a parallel web with enough anonymity that users feel safe using it to trade in prohibited weapons, prohibited drugs, and prohibited sexually explicit works. One of them is the Tor Browser Bundle. And I think the "payment system" part refers to Bitcoin and the other coins that vary in the exact proof-of-work problem, such as Namecoin (Bitcoin with a parallel DNS tacked on), Litecoin (Bitcoin with Tarsnap's Scrypt hash), and Dogecoin (very Litecoin, much meme, so cash, wow).

Then how did the NES manage to kill off the C64 and IBM PC? I was told that it was because IBM PC had no smooth scrolling until around the time the Super Famicom came out, and C64 had loads and loads of loading.

I had a game console with AMD GCN graphics (the "Flipper" GPU) back in 2001. I played Super Smash Bros. Melee on it.

One difference is that poor people at least theoretically have a recognized means to express lack of confidence in the leadership of the public sector: voting.