Well, in my defense, the submission did mention Mac OS X. Sorry, I would have replied sooner, but Steve is telling me about all the new iPods I need to go buy.

What is ironic is that Microsoft patents this, but my Mac running OS X 10.6 shuts down and off in literally 2 or 3 seconds, whereas Windows 7 on the same machine (and without virtualization) takes 15-20 seconds to shut down and off.

So you know how to put those 128-Bit wide Altivec registers to use, I take it?

Won't this ruin my collection of photographs of creased paper?

Its probably iPhone specific because the distribution system isn't open and so it is very difficult to trick someone into installing a hacked app onto their phone.

I used to think I was unique in what rare movies and music I liked until I met someone who had almost an identical collection to me. On top of that, we both had some of the same clothes. The reason netflix researches these data mining techniques is because our tastes really do cluster into groups. For some it might be because they like DeNiro films and Spaghetti Westerns. For others it might be that they like two screen writers - though they never know it. The payoff for getting this right if you are Netflix is that if a customer gets recommendations and he/she use those to fill your queue, then they are much less likely to cancel netflix anytime soon.

Things are happening too fast and there are too many components out there for this. Imagine you did develop this technology. The next day or week or quarter Intel or AMD ships a new processor and the hardware you developed can't use it. So all the time and money you spent developing this *FINAL* boot code is now obsolete. If you did have customers, they will move on to some other platform that can use the 'latest and greatest' because that is what the end user eventually demands. And this isn't just in the high end. Just about everything Intel sells now - even on this low end - is from 45nm process and requires a relatively new chipset to run it. Its why you can probably only find one new socket 478 motherboard on the market...

Yeah, but a new movie price is $8-$10 for a single person to view it once. A movie is new in the theater, not in the DVD case. If a game came out for $59 the same day as Star Trek did in the theater, its probably going to be $29 to $39 by the time the Star Trek DVD comes out.

Where I live, they have more PS2 games than any other system. There are just so many PS2 games its ridiculous. The PS2 (system) outsold the PS3 recently when the price dropped. I imagine that new system sales means many more game sales, too. Meanwhile, they won't take original XBox games/systems for trade anymore.

And they take a risk that they will unload it before the price drops to $30 for the game new. Seriously, I vividly remember buying Rallisport Challenge 2 and Project Gotham Racing 2 for the XBox for $50 each. Within a few weeks the price was $29.99. A month later and it was $19.99 on both of them!

Some people are already finding all they need to access everything they want is already available in a single window - Firefox connected to all the web apps they need. If a starter edition of Windows were widely adopted, it would push more and more developers to derive solutions that don't consume one of those running applications - the result will be more web applications. I don't think this is what Microsoft really wants. Sure they have all those Live apps, but they are apps. They don't run in the browser... Once you can live with just 3 applications, how is Windows relevant anymore?

Not highly publicized, but the old one is still for sale. And this isn't the clearance section - its a small link on the new shuffle's store page to another page in the main store.

Back in June of 2008 Netflix was going to shutdown the feature for managing separate queues. They sent an email and I canceled my account that day. Not sure how many of us there were, but they reversed course quickly. If you're pissed about the silverlight player. Close your account and email them a note to say why you did it. Maybe this will be a non-issue in the morning... Here is a link to the original plan on Ars Technica: Netflix killing extra queues

Or why does the consumer have to know the difference? Put both builds on every disc and let the install choose based on the hardware's capabilities. Make it so an advanced user can put 32-bit on a 64-bit capable machine if that is what they want. Nobody hurts.

...then they should make their main page a search box ala Google.