Netflix ? I assume you are not referring to their streaming service offerings which is extremely limited.

I do agree that Netflix has eliminated the need to rush out and buy every new movie (DVD or Blu Ray) that comes out. Why spend the $25 (for BR) on a new disk when I can just put it on top of my queue and have it come to my mailbox in a day or 2?

Also, I think all of this discussion about DRM is way overemphasized due to the demographics of this site. Perhaps in the /. world, DRM is the biggest reason not to buy a BR, but for the rest of the world (which is a more representative sample of the non-technical world we live in), DRM is meaningless.

The real reasons BR is not growing as fast as some might have expected have already been enumerated - most people don't see a big enough difference in picture quality or additional features to make it worthwhile to replace a perfectly fine DVD player and DVD collection. Plus, the economy sucks and people arent splurging on new gadgets like they used to. Unless they are from Apple, in which case people will sell their children for a new iPad.

I have a Sony BR player and I use it all the time, some for watching BRs I get from Netflix and some for watching streaming video from Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and lots of other online services. Plus, it plays my old DVDs just fine, so I'm good.

Wow, what an overheated headline. Jobs did not "lash out". He gave very reasoned response and delineated the significant differences in the philosophy and design of the 2 platforms. It wasnt an angry rant by any means.

The article is actually pretty spot-on, IMO. Linux will never be a mainstream desktop OS like OS/X or Windows. For the small percentage of computer users who frequent THIS site, it may seem heretical to state the obvious, but that doesn't make it less true. The article doesn't say that Linux itself is dead or that it is not a viable platform, just that it isn't ever going to be mass-market successful as a desktop platform ala OS/X or Windows.

Why does this piss people off? And just because it works great for *you* doesn't negate the arguments that the author is making.

I stumbled on this site that sort of mocks the whole FourSquare thing - http://www.faquesquare.com/

As others have pointed out, it was not the WaPo saying this, it was right wing hack Marc Theissen. Thiessen is yet another chicken hawk from the Bush/Cheney administration who writes a weekly column that is so utterly predictable and boring in its position (far far to the right) and lack of original thought (Obama is BAD! Democrats are making America weak! Iran is going to attack any day now!! blah blah blah). He basically regurgitates right-wing talking points he gets from the AEI or other conservative "think tanks" (talk about an oxymoron). Him and Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer are basically the same person, each one hates the left wingers with equal passion and yearns longingly for the glory days of secrecy and FUD everyone so enjoyed under the Dick Cheney administration.

Obviously. Im wondering, though, if one could change the exploit to execute *nix executables instead.

What happens on *nix versions of Adobe Reader - OS/X, Solaris, Linux, etc?

I want to super advance to tomorrow so I don't see any more April Fool stories.

It was a 1-for-4 split in November 2007. SUNW(JAVA) has never done a 1-6 split.

I actually have decent gear (Nikon D300 + a couple of decent Nikkor lenses, not crappy kit lenses), I didn't just pop into Ritz and pick up the latest cheapo camera kit last week. I've been shooting for 20+ years, so I get know very well that the lens is the most critical piece (besides the photographers own vision and skills). The point I was trying to make was that the camera manufacturers should focus on improving the sensor technology instead of the idiotic "megapixel" race.

Thanks, that was really helpful. I know how to properly expose an image, I've been shooting for 25+ years on film, slides, and digital. My comment was about the state of the technology and the sensitivity of current sensors. I'm was not looking for a beginners lesson in photography. And a Canon 40D at ISO1600, even if properly exposed, is far too grainy for my taste.

For me the biggest problem in pt-and-shoots, and in DSLRs to a lesser extent, is not lack of megapixels, but the lack of performance in low-light. The latest D-SLRs from Canon and Nikon, the higher-end ones (not the entry level SLRs) are getting much better, but for the most part, low-light performance of the current CCDs sucks.

You are correct, I forgot about the 340s.

Good question.. JetBlue is nice, their seats are reasonably comfortable and they have live TV in all seats. I hear good things about Virgin America, but I have not flown them yet.

AA, UA, NWA, USAir, Delta, Southwest - they all suck as far as economy class treatment goes. Shitty seats, dirty cabins, nickel-and-diming you for a bag of chips or box of shitty food. All of the major carriers are pretty bad. The smaller carriers do a slightly better job.

Yes, agreed. Some airlines do have some decent economy class seating. United is not one of them.