The world where you have to deal with RTL languages like Arabic and Hebrew where no matter how simple the patch is, something is bound to get broken.

That's not even considering that the bug was in the hcp:// protocol that's directly related to help/remote assistance and the control panel. How will the patch affect hcp://[slashdot ate my UTF-8 Arabic characters that spelled help]?

That said, I do not have access to the code and I do not know for sure if there are any il8n issues to consider, but make no mistake about it, Windows is not your freaking weekend project that you can fix/QA and push live in five days.

Look, I dislike Microsoft as much as the next guy, but Google's security researcher really didn't give them any chance here.

Had he reported it and it went unfixed for 3 months then I'd be rooting for him and bashing MS like there's no tomorrow. But any bug in a code base as complicated as windows cannot be humanly fixed in the time-frame he gave them.

Too quickly for their taste?

I don't know what world you live in where you can patch something as complicated as windows in five days.

Do you know how many versions and language combination of windows there are? Testing and QA that goes into it? Documentation?

It's not like your small little project where you fix a couple of lines and call it done you know.

And also, it wasn't "Google" per se, one of their security researchers did it, and according to his tweets he claims that this was done on his own time.

But sure, let's ignore the facts and label this as a clash of the titans.

It was funny, thanks for the smile :)

Or, you could have used an appropriate font ;)

My mom lives on a different continent you insensitive clod!

Sigh, I miss that basement.

I think my son's TV/movie watching habits are healthy. He doesn't watch Cars back to back, but every once in a while he'll ask to watch it again and I let him.

He's been recently asking to watch old cartoons that he used to watch a year ago (Blues Clues, etc.).

I sit down and watch it with him, and I'm noticing that he wants to watch it again because he has a better command of the language now and he "gets" what Blues means now. It's fun to watch him get excited and his face lighting up/laughing because he is that much more better at communicating.

Children also have a very short attention span. I notice that he misses a lot of the movie when he gets bored 20 minutes into it and starts playing with his actual cars or going for another activity. Which can explain why re-watching movies aren't that big of a deal to kids.

I agree that this is a parenting problem. And believe you me, if my son is not on his best behavior and have not been impressing me recently (be it toilet training, learning how to spell new words, or counting past a certain number) then he gets no TV whatsoever, let alone demanding a show/movie and throwing a tantrum for it (that's grounds for timeout in my place).

Well then I guess I'm one of the weird people who thinks of classic works as collectibles that I like to own even if the underlying technology becomes obsolete.

You don't need a ROI plan with dollar amount and break-even analysis on every little thing you purchase you know :)

To you, me and a lot of people here. The masses in general only care about how shiny a phone is.

Over half of the people I see with smart phones do not use them beyond basic call/text and maybe some web browsing.

Now, if I was HTC, which of the two groups (techies/non-techies) will affect my bottom line?

Are you telling me you have never re-watched a movie past the age of 6? Ever go back and watch a classic that you have seen before but it's so good that you want to see it again?

I happen to forget movies and even plots sometimes, and re-watching a good movie (not weekly obviously) can be a fun experience where you notice the subtle hints you may have missed before (sixth sense, beautiful mind, butterfly effect, etc.).

I would take a good movie that I watched before any day over a crappy shiny new movie.

19 friends?? I can count my friends that I still interact with on one hand with a few missing fingers!

I pay about $8 a month for Netflix and I watch anywhere between 1-3 movies a month. In addition to that, I watch a lot of movies/shows on my Wii or my Blu-ray player. It's insanely cheap compared to any other method (including socializing with 19 people and exchanging DVDs).

To each their own though :)

It's about time movie studios started realizing that. I'm a rental-convert and have been renting my movies for almost 2 years now.

I have a shelve full of DVDs and VHS tapes that are collecting dust. Most movies aren't worth re-watching and it seems ridiculous to purchase things you're only going to watch once.

I still buy DVDs, but I only buy movies that I know I will watch again (e.g. The Matrix, God Father trilogy, etc.).

Everything else is on the Netflix queue, and if it takes 10 months for me to finally see it, oh well, so be it.

Case in point, I was looking forward to watching Ninja Assassin because the previews looked good and it has the "Wachowski brothers" stamp on it.

When it finally reached Netflix and my mailbox, I was extremely excited... extremely excited that I didn't go out of my way and buy it. The movie was a piece of junk in my opinion, and it would not even be on my shelve collecting dust with other DVDs.

tl;dr: Renting Movies "FTW".

Were you referring to BizTalk? It seems to be alive still (2010 beta).

I did not know that SCUP existed, thanks for the links :)

Well, I for one didn't know the reference (thanks for the link), and would have considered the parent another annoying troll.

That's why I usually link to even semi-obscure references because I do not always assume that everyone reads/watches the same things as me.

I think the parent was referring to the obnoxiousness of the ads, not their existence.

If I remember correctly:

- One day there were no ads
- Next they started adding small graphic/text banners on the top right corner and shared revenue with top uploaders (?)
- Later they added a tiny text-ad bar above the movie player controls
- Then they increased the bar size to cover a quarter of the screen and made it stick around for longer
- And now they have full 15-30 second videos before popular videos begin to play

Not that I care, but they certainly did this gradually.

*Friends list. Go ahead, use your off-topic mod, or let me be ;)