The problem I've always had with this nonsense is the lack of accuracy. There could be 100 million songs downloaded, but how do they know what percentage of them are actually illegal? What about Indy bands? What about promotional material? What if the song is the original version that an artist released for free to promote his/her album? What about mixtapes? Small labels who are no longer around to or have no interest in suing? You could literally amass a collection of tens of thousands of songs that were just given away. The problem is once the album is released the labels always try to have websites remove potential hits - but it's too late. Once you give them away for free they're mine - forever.

The arrogance that every song on the planet is owned by them always seems to piss me completely off.

Now if only they would add 3G service to my aunt's neighborhood...

(Just saying... it would be a lot more practical.)

You DO realize that what you're suggesting is the very thing that got a large segment of the OSS community at odds with Firefox right?

Just because you diasagre with me doesn't make me a troll. What I said about CPU prices is undisuptable fact, and if you don't believe me when I say unlocking cores is old news then google it and see for yourself>

Maybe you should get off of your high horse.

First of all, I've been reading about unlocking AMD cores since 2008. So except for marketing hype from the motherboard manufacturers this isn't anything new.

Secondly, I can tell by a lot of the overclocking examples and chip prices that most of you don't build systems anymore. AMD 3.0Ghz QUAD CORE is only $150, and they've been selling relatively cheap for a while now. What's even funnier is the fact that 95% of users could get by with the $90 dual core Phenom X2.

It's 2010 - face it people overclocking is dead people. CPU's and ram have gotten way too cheap to risk ramming all the extra voltage through your system. I know it's a hobby for some people but some hobbies are just past their prime. Don't worry, I'm sure there are better ways to extend your e-penis.

That way they will stop having good phones is absolutely abysmal sofware. It isn't even limited to their smartphones - their flip/slide phones are buggy as hell too.

It's a shame really... Samsung phones are some of best phones physically, but their software can really use a boost. WebOS on the original Instinct might have actually produced a decent phone.

I didn't mean that they copied it. I'm well aware of Plasma, and even SuperKaramba before it. I meant that they were able to produce the one selling point for Gnome 3.0, and they did it 6 months before Gnome's scheduled release.

Anyone else on here notice the video of Plasma Desktop on the release page? It looks awfully similar to the proposed Gnome Shell for Gnome 3.0. I don't believe in that KDE vs GNOME fanboy nonsense, but I think it's more than fair to compare them from a technological standpoint. The primary feature pushing Gnome 3.0 was Gnome Shell, but KDE has almost completely duplicated its functionality 6 months before 3.0's release date - assuming it won't be as buggy as Plasma was when it started out.

I wonder how this will affect the future of KDE and Gnome.

And this is different from most Linux projects how?

(Not trolling - longtime Linux vet speaking here, but sometimes things just are what they are...)

I've always maintained that my fascination with the Bloods and my hatred for the color BLU was driven by the combat training I received playing Team Fortress 2. Although I'm too chicken shit to join a real gang, I wonder if I can sue for punitive character damages...

This is how nVidia always manages to stay on top: assumption.

I don't know why, but people always assume that nVidia parts are at the least equal, and for the most part better than ATi. Granted they have been in the past, but anyone savvy enough to know about graphics cards should also know how much things can change with every next generation.

I've heard people actually say "It's safe to say that the HD 3800 was pretty much a failure". That had to be one of the dumbest comments I've ever heard from a so-called "true gamer".

I think everyone here is missing the point. This is less about how accurate IBM's claims are, and more about the fact a company as large as IBM with a name that established was actually willing to publicly say it. That by itself is a major benifit for Linux.

This is all about momentum, marketing, and market share. I mean seriously, we act as if Microsoft has never made erroneous or speculative claims in the spirit of customer coercion. This is how business works.

FWIW, the Simpsons live in Springfield, Kentucky. They've dropped numerous hints about it, but during the Behind the Scenes parody episode, they flat out told you. It was so blatant that 99% of the people didn't even hear it.