That is the kind of thinking that ruined the Republican party and made Grover Norquist among the most powerful men in the country. Given your sig I can't see how you would go along with Grover and his tactics.

I don't remember titles that well. One of the things I like about Netflix is to know if I have viewed a title previously and if I liked it. See http://movielens.umn.edu/html/tour/index.html for an idea of what your friend should be doing.

I was kind of thinking the same thing. I've been on the fence about a Nook, this puts me over the fence. I want to contribute to B&N's war chest.

I'm looking at a B&W model, not color.

I haven't had TV for over a year.

My fiction intake: I enjoy movies on Netflix. The Daily Show and Colbert on Hulu.

My non-fiction intake: Documentaries on Netflix (almost all are streamable).

My news intake: I read my news. I find it amazing when I talk with people who get their "news" from TV, it's like we're from a different universe. I find TV news to be essentially fact free.

This wouldn't work if I liked watching sports. My take on sports: "I'm an American, we pay professionals to exercise for us while we watch".

This is Google jettisoning a little bit of their evil.

Bottom line: The police don't need a warrant to place one on a car. They just need a warrant to get it back.

Yeah, their developer conference starts tomorrow. Go figure.

I tried working for those guys before.

They suck!

Apple is the largest company, by market capitalization

By that argument, aren't GE, Exxon, and Walmart all bigger in IT than Apple?

Apple is not big in corporate IT; they are big in home/consumer devices. I work as a software developer at a major IT company. The only Apple products I see at work are the personal iPhones that employees carry. What this means in terms of the direction of standards is questionable.

In the last few years I've spent roughly as much on home IT hardware as my employer has for my use at work. For the first time ever, my personal dollars went primarily to Apple. Due to a beautiful UI being crafted on top of BSD, Android not being ready for prime time when I wanted a smart phone, and XP being overdue for a major overhaul when I needed a computer.

I think I'm done with my Apple binge. Android is ready, Apple laptops and desktops while nice, are overpriced. Apple has benefited greatly from Windows Vista/Windows 7 and Android product cycles.

A generation ago Microsoft was the "less evil" version of IBM. Look at how Microsoft knocking off IBM as the leader has made IBM a better company. Now Apple is doing the same thing to Microsoft.

In a generation will someone on Slashdot be pointing out the same similarity between Apple and Google?

Even a benign dictator sucks.

In this case I think Apple is right to limit the demo to Safari, because at this point not even Chrome works for all the demos. I don't like everything that Apple does, but in this case what are they supposed to do? Due to no standard being set on video, no other browser will properly render the demos. I do question what the deal with the CSS is. Remember, this page is a showcase of Apple's products based on the not completely baked HTML 5 standard - it is not a general HTML 5 showcase:

If we are to accept what you say then the following can't be true:

Standards aren't add-ons to the web. They are the web. And you can start using them today.

Standards aren't standards if they're not standard.