The problem with html5 apps is javascript. That language is just not designed to delopment of huge applications.

There is no single player mode in "Diable 3". Yes you can play alone but it is still multiplayer and your actions may still changes have effects for other players even if you newer meet them. (Auction house, and the fact that all your heros share part of the same world) are examples on this effect. You can say this design suck, but it was the way Blizzard build it.

To take the newest ubisoft settlers* for example. There is a campaing which is single player only. You can't play it with other players even if you vant to. And it still required that always online drm.

*Which sucks. Settlers 2 is imo still the best settlers game ever made.

The boottime problem can be solved simely by buying a small(32/64GB) ssd disk, and then install linux on that. This will cost you less then 200$. And if you don't have the budget for that, then please your story to thedailywtf.com because it sounds like some interesting fuckup happend someware in your organization.

Seems someone ate the rest of my text. But if you do it this way, then the windows computers will se a single system with a folder for each harddisk. The only reason this might cause problems is if you really need files from different harddisks to appear as if they are in the same folder.
 

Why do you need a unified filesystem. Can't you just share /myShareOnTheServer and then mount each disk to a subfolder in /myShareOnTheServer (such as /myShareOnTheServer/disk1).

Where did you look? There is a binary installer available for Linux, Windows and MacOSX at http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgdownload

Nothing which the require the developer to write in php can be called progress.

And while the ability to run LibreOffice and modify the code while the program is running would be really cool, the available tools are still far from able to do that.

There are funny enough java tools which are working in that direction. And the best are able recompile parts of a running program, and then let the program use the new code without stopping it.

They have. The multithreaded garbadge collecter which is available in java 7 really only pause programs for a very very short time because it does most of the garbadge collection in the background. (Also a very good use of modern multi core cpus).

Because then it will not work on any graphics card/motherboard released after the game release, due to missing drivers.

It will also make patching really difficult, and you need to cache most of the game data to the harddisk anyway which will be difficult for any non-standard hd setup such as raid. (Streaming a game directry from a dvd will be far to slow. Even consoles cache most of the games to harddisk).

True, but you need to write your own html template, to configure the look and feel of the website. Unless you want a total generic looking website. Which may be ok, depending on budget and customer.

But this is a site for an architect, and based on what happend last time I designed a site for an architect he will end up doing a new theme from start anyway even if he ends up using a cms :-}

First a note "When you write: WYSIWYG editors" i asume you talk about using them as graphics designers with drag/drop and not just as fancy html editors.

First: No I don't think there is any value in "knowing and using WYSIWYG editors" if you already know html. If you know html then writing html is at least as fast as using a WYSIWYG editor. But there are really 3 reasons that most sites are not made with a WYSIWYG.

1: What happens when the architect want to edit the text on the site, or want to add an other page to the top menu? Then you need a cms system, and converting a handwritten html document to a cms theme is relative simple. Converting from WYSIWYG to a theme is hell.

2: Javascript: If you want to apply any simple javascript transformation such as "read more", enlarge image on click. Fade part of the page down or anything else, then doing that on the WYSIWYG is very difficult, because you don't know how the dom look.

3: And to make matters much worse. The current implementations of WYSIWYG sucks. It's like the software developers have accepted that there software vil not be used to do design of highend websites, so they have given up any quest to produce valid small and valid html. And they miss the features such as third party cms system theme integration which would actuelly make them usefull.

If Item 33 is true, then that missing feature is in itself using the phone useless for me.

I have configured my Android phone, to flash both the light and screen in case of missing phone calls/sms messages. So If someone calls me and I don't take it, the screen will flash(3 second on, 60 second pause) until i acknowledge the missed call.

Is this basic feature really missing from Windows Phone?

True, but most of the downtime for datacenters are due to external events, such as lost power/internet connection.

And you can't really make the power company restore power to you, before they restore it to Amazon.

In the USA that is true, but Nokia sells most of it phones outside of USA where consumers pick the phones.