You pulled it out of your ass so you'd sound officious and get a post on /.

Officious - I do not think it means what you think it means.

Seriously, the PC market seemed to do just fine for decades without an official "app store". Why can't I just download an app from any vendor's site without having to go through some gatekeeper (who keeps 30% of the revenue). I'm a huge IPhone fan, but has Apple brainwashed us so much that we need an official app store that we forgot that it's not really necessary in the first place?

If you read the settlement carefully, it says that 1/3 of the settlement goes to the lawyers. Our legal system is such a fucking scam.

Over the past decade I've been a member of the class in about 10 class action lawsuits. The majority of the time I don't even bother to collect - filling out the paperwork isn't worth it to get a 5 dollar coupon. I guess I've sure made a lot of lawyers rich, though.

My smartphone already does this - it's called google translate, and was a huge boon while I was overseas last month.

Except often times in technology and business, timing is everything. Back in 1995 there was no way the "browser is the OS" model could work, for lots of reasons, the most obvious being that almost all consumers were on dialup. Now it's the norm to have always-on broadband.

Paypal has owned the x.com domain since before they were paypal (check wikipedia), so while x.com probably wasn't super cheap back in 1999, it's not like they just purchased it.

This weekend I moved, and I always have a hard time throwing out old stuff. You know, an old palm pilot I haven't used in years, CRT monitors, close I don't wear anymore (or never really wore much in the first place), etc. I just feel guilty dumping stuff when there's nothing really wrong with it.

Then I though about how we spent tens of billions on the space station, only to throw it away a couple of years after it was finished, so subsequently I felt fine about throwing 3/4 of my closet in the dumpster.

If you look at a lot of the astroturfing comments on the openinternet site, you'll see how ridiculously ignorant most of them are. A huge percentage of them are of the form "keep the government from taking over the internet!", which makes about as much sense as "keep your government hands off my Medicare!"

The Internet was FOUNDED by the US government, with most of the vital underlying technologies coming from ARPANET and NSFNET (though I should give credit to those European governments responsible for funding CERN, where Tim Berners-Lee invented HTTP and the web). This nonsense about how the wonders of the free market and private enterprise created the Internet is a willful and gross rewriting of history.

By saying "or so" I'm assuming that 0 is included in this estimate? Seriously, do you have any reference at all for this number? How the hell was this modded interesting?

Why, actually, yes. But in truth, I could care less.

Mod parent up. If you're going to commit a felony that will result in significant jail time, at least rob a bank or a high end jewelery store. Instead they steal an easily tracked, serial-numbered product with a ridiculously low fence-to-retail value. Furthermore, their crime is newsworthy enough ("Look at those shiny macbooks disappear!") that they manage to get coverage on major websites and news outlets.

Finally, they incur the wrath of apple fanboys everywhere now determined to track them down: "Did you see how they handled those MacBooks! They might even have scratched the case!!!"

They're pretty much unrelated. Savana doesn't aim to provide all of the functionality of git. What it DOES do is make it really easy to work "the right way" with SVN, with "the right way" defined as:

1. Every time I'm going to code a new feature/bug fix, I do it in a private branch.
2. I checkin normally on this branch.
3. When I'm ready to promote my changes, I first sync down any more recent changes from the trunk.
4. Optionally, I can have someone else look at my branch to do a code read.
5. I promote (merge my changes back to trunk) and drop my private branch.

It's currently possible to work like this now with subversion, but it's pretty ugly and a pain requiring long commands, and developers generally don't like it because it is such a pain to set up the private branches and merge them, so they end up just doing everything in trunk. Savana is essentially just syntactic sugar on top of (potentially multiple) underlying uglier svn commands. Savana aims to make it easy to set up and merge private branches, lowering developer resistance to using them.