While this certainly has the potential to let TV programmers know that we do actually loose interest when a commercial is aired, and some programs that seem to get canceled are actually watched, there are far too many potential abuses for this technology. I don't want to suddenly become part of a reality tv show that is aired in some other country, and that I have no idea I am a part of.

I want to see more games like "The 7th Guest" and "The 11th hour". Now those were games that stayed in my head (in a good way) long after I played them.

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So I had a look at the banner mentioned, and I find it odd that it states "Please upgrade to one of these modern browsers" followed by only IE8, FF3.5, and Google Chrome. Why not mention (or even hint at) the fact that other "modern browsers" also exist. You know, browsers like Opera or Safari (the OS default for MAC users), or any others. Simply re-wording the banner to something like "Please upgrade to a modern browser such as the following" would be much more polite.

And here we go again. Yet another show I actually enjoyed watching (on a different day and time) is canceled prematurely. I am so sick of TV these days. 10 minutes of show for 20 minutes of commercials, one episode then two weeks of something else, then another episode. Only 10 or so episodes in a 52 week year. Crappy time slots. All these things are contributing to the downfall of TV.

I only ever sat there for 10 minutes because that's all it took for the diarrhea to activate after eating that addictive crap. Sitting any longer and the chairs would be a different color.

Watching a YouTube video is already a painful expreience. The very low quality of the video, and the extremely small size of the video frame just don't add up to a good viewing experience. So why should I pay for such crap. I won't. I'll just keep watching the free sites like Hulu. Sure there's a few commercial breaks in the program, but they are at least reasonable. 4, 30 second, single advertiser commercial breaks per TV show episode is far better than the massive advertising overdose that cable TV providers force down your throat and charge you for it as well.

Me too. However I'd get fired if I did that :)
We have a corporate IS policy at my work that does not permit any web browser other than IE6 to be installed or used on any of our corporate computers. I was foolish enough to ask why, and found out that some of our core business software uses a web based front-end that has compatibility issues with any other web browser (including IE7 and 8). Following in my foolishness, I asked why that software hadn't been upgraded and found out that it was because it would cost too much.

Windows XP in a Virtual Machine running under Windows 7 for the sake of legacy support !? Great. So when someone needs to run Windows XP because they connect to some hardware for which there are no Windows 7 device driver, how the hell is a Virtual Machine going to help with that?

If it really costs 4 billion dollars to put a man on the moon, is it worth it? What resources can be economically gained from going to the moon? Is the moon made of pure Gold? If so, the shuttle's 22,700Kg cargo capacity full of pure, refined, 24 karat gold 22 would need to have a value of $1,762.12 per gram in order to make the trip economically break even. With today's gold value somewhere under $100 per gram, and the fact that the moon is not made of refined 14 karat gold, I think it will be a long time before a trip to the moon is economically viable at a cost of 4 billion dollars. ;)

I guess that means they'll have enough power to easily hide the hydroponics operation ;)

No. Not all consumers write letters to manufacturers, and neither did we. We, like most consumers, simply allow our future purchase decisions speak for us; money talks. This is why returns of Linux based netbooks has been higher than that of Windows based netbooks; this is the consumer 'talking'.

Good example, but either way users are not techs, and it is the user experience that matters most to the user; not what it takes (technically) to get that user experience.

I had a friend who won an EEE netbook, which came with Linux. He liked it until he tried to use it on a website that contained Flash content. This netbook did not have Flash pre-installed, and he was unable to install it himself by following the links on the website, so he asked me for help. I am not very familiar with Linux (I try a distro each year to see if it is up to my standards yet). I was unable to determine what type of package the Linux distro on this machine supported, and was unable (through trial and error) to get any of Adobe's Flash for Linux packages to install. I ended up having to do it manually from the command line with an APT GET command that I found after a Google search. That is not an acceptable user experience for customers who expect to use this computer the same as they would use any other computer. And that is why you can expect high return rates for Linux Netbooks.

I wonder if 'download an app' applies to downloading updates for existing apps?