Or maybe email should just work like a normal person would expect it to work?

Let me guess, Pine?

Because Newzbin have set up their business such that the easier it is for their users to pirate stuff the more they get paid.

Where does the notion that a crappy business app is acceptable come from? If you bought a crappy game then you have a problem. If you have to use a crappy business application then not only do you have a problem, your employer has a problem too.

That may be, but how much is there still to go and how long is it going to take to catch-up to where h264 is today?

Hahah, so the young one was fast becoming as stupid as his old man!

Just Control-Doubleclick a folder and it opens in a new Explorer window. From a little demonstration video that I saw, I can say that two Explorer windows are better than one split view Dolphin window.

No, it would piss me off and make me leave the service. Not a bad thing if the service was geared for the nerd niche.

Let's use URL rewriting. My friend shares a photo from their private album with me, I post a link to it on Twitter and the next thing I know half the world has my session id.

Unless I'm tragically mistaken, your link refers to Amazon starting to offer hosted MySQL servers. It doesn't mean that Amazon runs their own business on MySQL or that their MySQL offering scales from a simple website to Google levels automatically. It's just single MySQL servers that you can rent.

What if you ARE dealing with massive data AND complex relationships?

Isn't that the point, though? Drop all the features of SQL databases that hinder scalability and you end up with NoSQL.

Why do you feel entitled to information someone else has decided to fund, information that you've already said you don't want?

Oh, so now the rest of the world should bow down to your whims just so YOU are not FORCED to pirate stuff.

Why did you pirate movies when there's demo versions readily available? They're called trailers you know.