This is bullshit. They're not making money off of the copyrighted works of students, they're making money off of their algorithms. Google is only good because they have sites to index, but it's their indexing code that makes that possible. Google indexes copyrighted materials, should they be compensating siteowners?

$ cat > hello.pl
printf("hello world\n");
$ perlcc hello.pl -o hello
$ ./hello
hello world

Newegg's checkout server was completely unresponsive from 12AM-1AM PST. No shoppers were harmed, but the techs on duty that night probably felt trampled.

Wine doesn't support x64 code, so the only benefit you can get is having the full address space enabled (because the kernel can properly map memory).

Many, many engines support OpenGL. id tech 4 (Doom 3, Quake 4, Prey, etc) was pure OpenGL, Unreal's engine is always D3D and OGL, etc. The only big engine that doesn't support OGL is Source; even stock Gamebryo supports it, although many games opt not to ship with it (e.g. Oblivion, Morrowind (back when it was NetImmerse)) since they make internal changes and don't care about maintaining OGL support.

Once you've reverse-engineered a hardware interface, it's rarely difficult to reverse the next iteration. The basic functionality is usually the same, it's just a slightly different version. The bigger issues are jailbreaking the new device, getting to the point where you can replace the bootloader, etc.

It's being reverse-engineered, like everything else on the iPhone. None of the specs for iBoot, the baseband, etc are public either and the iPhone hackers have done just fine. I'm confident they'll succeed.

The 1812 Overture.

windows and linux users are really missing out

Editing metadata in amarok involves double-clicking on the field you want to edit, typing something, and pressing enter. I find it hard to believe that fishbowl would have a problem doing this (considering his UID, I expect it could be beard-related interference), and even if he doesn't fill out tags manually it will guess tags from the filename so it's not like there's a huge list of completely unnamed files to dig through. There is also a traditional metadata dialog with more options. You can select multiple files and assign shared information (album, genre, year, etc.) to all of them at once, assign track numbers sequentially, and similar things I've come to expect from other applications and been sorely disappointed not to find.

As for spotlight, honestly I can't say I've ever felt a need for that kind of functionality. If I'm looking for a song, then I open amarok, which is actually tailored for searching music. In fact, linux has tools similar to spotlight, one being "Beagle" which comes with my distro, but I always uninstall it because it drives up my system load. That's an implementation-specific problem but I personally don't ever feel the need to search my entire system for something when there is a domain-specific application that I know already has information about it.