I know I'll get modded down for this, but saying "Yeah, I know you'll mod me down for this," pretty much guarantees you'll get modded up.

No one cared about GTA 3 at launch. It was only a couple months later after they had played it at their friend's house that people started buying a lot of copies of it. And then they launched the sequel and people did care about that. Look at this chart.

See also the Unladen swallow project, which is using LLVM to speed up Python. They're still in the very early stages, but it looks promising.

You see, it's thoroughly reasoned out reactions like yours that make me wonder why people are constantly crying about racism. Clearly, there are no more idiotic racist fucks on the internet, so there must not be any in real life either.

btw, you know what was the comment of my gf, when I said that I would like to have a phone with a full qwerty-keyboard, complaining that, at that time, no phone was available?

The Japanese I know prefer cellphone-style input for Japanese to qwerty. The Japanese alphabet just so happens to split up logically into ten groups, so it makes a lot of sense to use a number pad to type them. Combined with predictive text, it's pretty quick. On the other hand, the layout of the qwerty keyboard is basically random. So, the Japanese aren't really interested in using micro keyboards when a number pad works well enough and doesn't hurt your thumbs.

Yes, but the Japanese web is mostly designed for use with crappy cellphone browsers, so it already sucks. Because their phone company charged by the minute, no one used dial up internet back in the day, but their cellphones were really good, so everyone used cellphones. So, their web has always had the assumption that your browser sucks built in.

In fairness though, isn't Atari a special case? They were developing what they thought of as unimportant children's toys (did we lose the spec to the original Hula Hoop too? Oh noes!) and then they went bankrupt several times. The current holder of the name "Atari" and attendant IP has absolutely zero connection to the original Atari.

That said, copyrights that are longer than 20 years are insane.

Sorry Al, God throws dice all the time...

Not necessarily. The Bell experiments show that either God plays dice or God acts non-locally. The Bohmian interpretation, for example, hasn't yet been conclusively disproven, and it's deterministic.

The G3 iPod? The ugly ass one with the red buttons that all felt the same and gave no physical response? That one was not missed. The click-wheel was a stroke of genius.