Hah. Spoken like someone who's never played TF2. Maybe their QA department is overworked, maybe regression testing a game just sucks, maybe it's just the number of people playing the game, but there are constant bugs/glitches affecting gameplay. The fixes often introduce new bugs/glitches of their own.

On the other hand, even on the old stock maps that people have been playing to death for almost 3 years now, I still see people coming up with new ways to do things.

I thought it was pretty clear he was correcting individual points, since he wasn't making that particular argument in the first place...

Yeah, uh, you might too. The FLQ were implied when he mentioned Pierre Laporte...

The article doesn't look like it says, although I only skimmed. I spent several months unemployed last year and I'd easily hit 40 hours a week playing video games, frequently more. It was shameful, but that's the way it was. When you're living hand-to-mouth for months on end, utterly sapped of any energy or confidence to do anything meaningful, video games are a way to kill time.

If they hold down a job I don't know whether to be concerned or impressed. If they're "homemakers" then it's no big deal. If they're unemployed I'm disappointed you needed a survey to figure that out.

... from not buying Windows, antivirus software, an office suite, ...

I'd love to pay for legal downloads. It'll never happen though. It's great that the iTunes store is offering generic MP3s (although lossless would be nice) ... but for $1/track? Forget it. I can buy it used for $6 and get the case, liner notes, and have it in whatever format I want. Downloadable TV? It had better be high def and MPEG4, and no commercials, and cheaper than they would ever dream of offering it. When I can buy a DVD box set for cheaper than buying a download of each individual episode, you're doing it wrong.

The content industry will simply never offer it in formats or at a price I find acceptable.

The article doesn't make it particularly clear what that might be though. The closest I found was:

"There's a pretty key reason for whitelisting," Temkin explains. "It's really, really easy for anyone using, for example, Hurricane Electric's tunneling to find that the IPv6 network becomes an island and that it is broken because they didn't update a tunnel...You end up with the customer having a bad experience. They never see the content or they only see the content after a 30-second wait."

Which seems like a no-brainer to me: Fix the tunnel. I don't even understand how the whitelist might help that -- if the whitelist says "This user has IPv6 connectivity" and you have a broken tunnel either you don't get the content at all, or you still only see the content after a 30-second wait.

The real 'island' problem is that IPv6 routing is kind of a mess. If you're on the east coast of North America and want to connect to western Europe, depending on who your provider is it may well decide to send all of your traffic through Korea, if it even makes it to your target at all. I imagine that's a problem that will solve itself as more routes come online.

... and that's not speedy.

The youtube clip is some knob plugging in ram and an *IDE* disk cable in what appears to be a several-year-old desktop. If any of you can't match that, turn in your computer geek card now...

... it's also vulnerable to MITM. There's no verification of the cert, the servers blindly trust each other.

(Yes it's possible to set up verification, but nobody actually does for external hosts)

New York isn't subject to earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. If you'll recall the former occupants of the World Trade Center had a bit of a problem with low flying planes though. Those with a second site were up the same day. The guys that didn't... hooboy.

"Overdesign" depends on your requirements. Billy-Bob's Bargain Basement Hosting doesn't require high availability. If you really need high availability, you don't just have a second site, you have a third or a fourth. You also need a disaster recovery plan -- companies I've worked for in the past have drilled for whole-building outages. They've HAD whole-building outages too.

This guy just wants batteries so he can shut his stuff down cleanly when the power dies. He's not worrying about availability.

It varies, I imagine. I tried it a while ago with foobar2000's ABX plugin. I don't have especially exciting headphones (~$300 studio model, no pre-amp) and I could differentiate between V0 and V2 (static bitrates? feh) but not between V0 and FLAC.

What was more interesting though was that I didn't always prefer the higher bitrate. Go figure.

I still rip to FLAC just in case I ever want to re-encode, because disk space is cheap, and because I want a backup of my music.

Yeah great work Linus.

The distros STILL stick with older versions and backport fixes, because who in their right mind is going to bump a kernel version in the middle of a support cycle? It's even MORE broken because the kernel devs rarely identify security fixes as such, and often don't understand the security implications of a fix, so they don't always get backported as they should.

The Linux dev model is NOT something to be proud of.

The behaviour their driver has in the benchmark is also used in several games... ie Crysis Warhead. RTFA.

The site is ugly and the usability is poor. I'll grant you that beauty is subjective, but a bad interface is not.

Now is where you tell me why it's good for reasons beyond the relative post quality (which we agree on.)

Seriously, what mouth-breather decided you should only be able to search tags instead of a full-text search?

It's also likely that the apparent (I've only skimmed the site) quality of the questions and answers there are because of the subject matter. What works for programming questions probably won't work for a lot of other domains -- just look at the dreck that is wiki.answers.com, yahoo answers etc.