The only problem here is that most large companies won't actually pay an invoice to an entity (company) that isn't somehow a "registered vendor" or whatever label they decide to stick on the "account". And don't think it will be a slam dunk for small claims either, the court would likely side with company in the fact that you can't just go invoicing a company because you feel like they owe you money (even if you do). Normally an invoice is related to some form of contract (verbal, written, whatever) and without that, well, good luck.

If you are lucky, they will send you back the requisite paper work to become a registered vendor. More likely they will ignore the invoice.

This would be a crown jewel in the Wii Homebrew scene. Not that there aren't plenty of amazing titles already there - this game was [unintentionally] designed to be played with a nunchuck and wiimote.

Some of the nicer boards will tolerate ECC memory being inserted, but won't actually do any meaningful error correction (like scrubbing) - but a disturbingly large number of consumer boards (BIOS limitation perhaps?) don't actually do ANYTHING with ECC memory, and the really cheap ones won't even boot with it present. I used to have the same mindset of purchasing only ECC RAM for the same reason - but the unfortunate truth is that hardware support for it just isn't there without spending $$$ on a decent board too.

It isn't simply about cost - though I understand that is the specific issue you are trying to address:

Try sending a letter or small package through the USPS, UPS, and FedEx (and DHL and a local courier service for good measure)
- See which one was more cost effective
- See which one was fastest (or slowest)
- Which offered the best service (up to date tracking, delivery confirmation + signature, etc.)
- Sends thousands of parcels and see which was the most reliable with fewest lost/late arrivals
- See how the service varies by region, distance traveled, etc...

There are a lot of variables, and while cost is certainly and important one - it isn't the only one.

They still use flash unfortunately, but as you describe - it isn't ActiveX Flash for IE, it is the "plugin" version for Firefox/Chrome. It only reared its ugly head in a couple of places for me - specifically the game details / videos and one or two animated marketing things.

The marketing things could easily be addressed in HTML - they are all just sliding/fading/hovering type effects.

The video could be easily addressed using the tag, though the whole h.264 patent nonsense may scare them off from actually doing that.

This is a beta, I am hopeful that they will address these concerns. I am very happy with the new interface personally.

So I am just curious, is there something that is missing from Octave that makes it a viable replacement for MATLAB for you? Particularly if you are lagging a few versions behind?

This is the perfect example of "free" in FOSS. You aren't tied to a specific platform or endless* required upgrades.

*This is an approximation for very small values of forever.

Yeah, I guess I am kind of boring that way. Hooray for utility over aesthetics!

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

Apache is only half the problem at best, the real issue is the lack of compliant clients at a significant level. Server Name Identifcation (the extension to allow for virtual hosts behind SSL/TLS connections) has been supported in Firefox since v2 I believe, and Internet Explorer 7 - though I think that is only on Vista for some reason. I have no idea what Safari, Opera and other browsers and platforms might support.

I would disagree (to some degree) that more features are in fact needed. For example, E4X (and a native XML doc object) being standardized in the browsers would be a huge benefit.

That being said, I think that a lot of the feature bloat going into the proposed v4 was really not all that great. I think this is generally a step in the right direction.