IMHO, the "sell out" to franchises were needed to attract the attention of the kids. And it is a great idea, because at first the kids do have to follow the instructions, sorta. But after that, they hopefully start experimenting, building bigger, and more complex structures and games.

Lego were in trouble, the franchises did indeed help save the company.

Well, when doing cross platform, you sometimes have to code for the lowest common denominator

"with a Linpack benchmark of more than 17 petaflops a second"

Supercomputers calculate on an accelerating performance curve now?

The removed the resizing script that forced the size of the top ad to ensure the apology would be outside the screen, regardless of the resolution and size of your screen.
Instead they just set the top ad to the maximum size the resize script had it at. Aka a "big ass ad".

Is not always correct.

"People" keep saying Google+ is a ghost town.
"People" keep saying Linus is doomed on the UI.
"People" kept saying Linux was too hard to use and would never make it outside the server room

Common for all is that they were mostly wrong.

Nice cherry picking there.

Read the entire line before trying to make me say something I didn't.

often F/OSS is superior, I never said always, and yes, a lot is crap, same with closed source.

People will settle for less, when they get it for free, the question really is, how much less are people willing to settle for?

That said, often less is more (no pun) and F/OSS is the superior alternative.

People moved from Open Office because of the insecurity of its future, I'd hazard a guess that as graduated from the Apache Incubator, there is a good chance that things will look up, especially because of the name.

OO will be around for a while yet. Personally I use LibreOffice.

Beer is better everywhere else as well, only fair it cost a little more.

Lets hope the Earth crust is not a balloon...

That always happen.
With a little overhead, 1 Tbit/s is at most 100GiB a second. 2 Blu rays.

Some people have pointed out that this hacker claim may be fraud. If true, how can you claim "Sony still cannot get it right" ?

Sony screwed up, and probably spent millions hardening their security, and will have to continue to do so. Time will tell if they have done enough. Bit if this is an invalid claim, and Sony weren't hacked, how did they get it wrong?

"Someone claiming to be from Anonymous claims to have hacked PSN."

Fool me once, shame on you and all that. The first time they could be excused a little by having put too much faith in their internal systems. If this is true, there can be no excuses left.