Then he should perhaps take a trip inside himself. This article and his webpage is full of self-self-congratulatory bullshit.

Actually, in KDE4 inotify is used to listen to file changes, so if you do move or copy a file, the annotations are moved along. Although - clearly it still breaks if you copy it to a USB key and move it a different computer, scp it, attach it to an email, etc.

The guardian brought this up:

Are downloads really killing the music industry? Or is it something else?

Although CD sales are plummeting, DVD and games sales are way up, making the entertainment industry as a whole increase it's earnings.

The reusable things here are not only the code, but the schematics for the phone itself and the lessons learned, i.e.

1. the gfx chip in the freerunner is worthless, it's not really open (NDA required) and the performance sucks => don't use it again,

2. Use two CPUs next time, one more powerful than the current slow one, and another tiny one to keep alive while suspended to come back quicker and be more responsive.

At least for computer science (where I publish) I think conferences have sort of filled the role journals used to have. A comp sci conference usually has the deadline about 6 months before the actual conference, and will have the proceedings printed in time for the conference.
Large international conferences are now sufficiently hard to get into that a fair quality is guaranteed (WWW conference last year had 10% acceptance right I think?).

I understand that this is quite different in other fields (physics, etc.) - where conferences have deadlines only shortly before the event and often only short papers/posters? Comp.Sci. has solved the need for a less formal venue for presenting quick ideas by doing workshops.

Bottom line: No - I don't thinnk journals are needed any longer, but then again, maybe I am just bitter because I have no journal publications :)