I'd prefer them to just publish the viral parts of the app. These private entities should pay the real price for including GPL code with their own. By taking bribe money, the copyright owners only reinforce bad behavior, showing that instead of abiding by the terms, these devs can be bought.

Second. Been running the same proc with Windows 7 since RC and RTM. No probs whatsoever. I have been running VMWare for XP and encountered no issues.

unless the foreign components are later found to cause cancer themselves.

Would you have had it any other way? If we had not maintained our paranoia of the Russians one-upping us, would we have maintained our edge? I'll let history stand as the best outcome of the cold war without trying to second guess what would have happened if we had not taken the position we did. The illusion of a perpetual stalemate is certainly preferable to the alternatives.

It was a typo on my part. It is 'popol'. The etymology of the word comes from 'mat' (pop) upon which the cheif or government official sat and would decide matters of law and government. There is no connection to Catholicism at all.

Most certainly, but being angry at them will not change history. There are still a lot of oral histories and legends that survive. They are slowly fading with each succeeding generation. It would be better to divert that energy into recording these histories and stories that they do not further erode and disappear from the fabric of humanity.

It is sad, but not unavoidable when cultures bleed together. English is a melting pot of languages, borrowing strongly from German and Latin based languages. Words in other languages have become Anglicized too when a native one will not express the feeling and/or intent that the English one does. It is unfortunate in this instance that Catholicism ran Q'eqchi' in the direction that it did, but it begs the question that it could have been altogether avoided. I would guess no.

When the Spaniards arrived, all codices and other writings containing any Mayan text were destroyed. The only real surviving literary text survives as a Spanish translation of a book called the Popol Vu, "Governing Book", (I speak a Mayan dialect, Q'eqchi'). The Wikipedia article there translates it as "Book of the Mat", which is a correct literal translation, but loses any contextual meaning. The root word 'pop' is indeed 'mat', but 'popal' has reference to the chief governing body of the people.

At any rate, to answer your question, all Mayan dialects have long since been Romanized, but it has only been in recent years (ten, perhaps) that efforts have been made to standardize the lithography across dialects.

It is interesting to note that the Christian conversion of the Mayan people brought about some surprising abnormalities (or outright perversions) in the spoken language itself. Even amongst the most pure speakers of Mayan dialects, Spanish has left its indelible mark. Take for example the word for 'people' in Q'eqchi': kristiaan. Any Spanish speaker would recognize the transliteration of that word as 'cristiano'. Therefore, in a very subtle way, you are not a person or a group of people unless you are in fact Christian. Crazy, huh?

Pardon me? Nobody? This has been a feature since iPhone/iPod OS 2.0 came out and I have been running it ever since then.

On top of that, what's wrong with teaching a player new skills? I appreciate the Valve approach in games like Half Life 2. They first *teach* you how to use a tool, game mechanic, etc, then leave it up to you to combine your existing skills with the newly taught ones in order to bring about a successful result. It is very satisfying (to this gamer) to overcome a challenge when given the right skills/tools. The game would have been very bland if they had merely expected me to play in the same manner I had before, dynamically adjusting difficulty to just let me pass.

I'm sure there are a number of reasons why, so I'll throw out a few ideas for discussion:

1) Software wise, PC users have everything they need. As far as business, productivity, games, etc. Windows has everything a PC user could need. Sure equivalents exist on the Mac, but why switch when, as you mention, cost is significantly less?

2) On that same note, perhaps Mac users have a piece of software that either isn't available on their platform, has an inferior equivalent, or is just easier to obtain/use on a PC?

3) Mac owners more open minded? TFA also mentions they tend to have more other electronic gizmos, too, so why not a PC? Perhaps rather than spending discretionary income on other things, it is directed to the consumption of these kinds of goods?

Second that. Fahrenheit 451 was one of the first sci-fi books I had read that really baselined my expectations of what sci-fi was supposed to be.

Bigger than this, is that the server OS, Windows Server 2008 R2, only comes in 64-bit. This also is a great way to end 32-bit on the consumer side.

You don't have to circumcise your keyboard. Just remap the keys to something else, or to nothing at all.

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/software/keyremap

Would that be a reverse class action lawsuit?