There does seem to be a complete dearth of similar free software for the home wine brewer... to the point where I ended up deciding to learn how to program, and wrote something for myself in the space of a few weeks:

https://code.google.com/p/winebrewdb/

Frankly it's pretty inflexible, I only wrote exactly what I needed, no more, no less, and god knows how my "coding standards" compare to anything in the real world. But hey I'm no java developer, and it is free (as in speech and beer (or should that be wine?)) & multi-platform (probably)!

...you mean like a PC running linux? Ok, sorted, now we'll just wait for the games to roll in...................

I exist, that's all I know for sure, *everything* else is a belief.

I think I'll go with solipsism personally.

I guess if it's a legal right and then you're subsequently sacked for taking too much time off (does this really actually happen in the real world??), then you could take your employer to court for unfair dismissal (unless of course has no such laws regarding unfair dismissal).

Is this just a US thing?

Here in the UK I can't imagine this ever occurring, any company doing such a thing would quite rapidly lose staff. In fact all of my employers have generally actively encouraged holiday taking (on the basis that accrued holiday in one year often doesn't get carried over to the next year).

How much holiday do you guys get over the pond anyway? I think the average for office workers here (not counting contractors of course) has gotta be about 25 days + public holidays.

Not to mention "No wonder they went from distant 2nd place last gen to last place this gen." is incorrect too!

The PS3 is in fact in last place in terms of sales figures: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Console_wars#Worldwide_sales_figures_6

gp obviously pulled some numbers from magical fairy land. :D

*agreed* I would ditch FF for Chrome too if it weren't for the extensions. Thus far all mine have been updated relatively quickly, but I can't help feeling that at some point in the future plugin developers are just gonna give up bothering.

The Firefox UI is fine, surely one of them could spend the time they would be spending on this to fix up the vomit they called a UI in Thunderbird 5?

(not that it matters as I now use gmail instead of Thunderbird since that)

People use Skype because other people use Skype.

How can anyone believe any of these are viable alternatives if they don't connect to the Skype network? Do the proponents truly expect everyone currently using skype to suddenly switch to one of these "alternatives"? I think not.

All the while most people are using Skype, most people will continue to use Skype.

Shock horror, there is life out there that doesn't match our common perception of the requirements of life. Perhaps now all those scientists will stop circle jerking over every "earth-like" planet they find and I dunno, perhaps realise life doesn't need to match our common forms of life, that perhaps there could be living things out there so completely different from anything we've ever seen before. Who says there's not life inside Jupiter (or any other gas giant for that matter)? Have we examined every inch of its insides?

I guess those people are the cleaners?

I've gotta say I only clicked on this article because I thought it was referencing some sort of epic overhaul of code for the iPhone OS. I can't be the only one disappointed to have thought "oh, that Doom."

You can battle/trade across the world via wi-fi now.