By suing hyperviser vendors who release software that does not explicitly check for Apple hardware? Such a thing would not exactly be out of character for Apple...

That's not true at all. I have QuickTime Pro right here. When I choose "export" from the file menu, you can choose to export to an MP4 file. When you click "options", you can set the codec to H264. Here's a screenshot.

That's not true. You can virtualize OS X Server starting with Leopard as long as it's on Apple hardware (host does not need to be OS X, in fact Parallels has a bare metal version for XServes). They've never let you virtualize OS X, just the last 2 versions of Server.

However, you should be aware of the middle man, and in using it you are implicitly trusting them with everything you do through them, and some might have a problem with that.

Sounds interesting, I'll probably try it whenever I need flash support for something, and use my standard browser the rest of the time when I don't.

How do I get in on this? My PS3's BR drive stopped reading disks, I feel perpetrated by that as well and deserve my money back. Plus $10,000 in damages, of course.

I recently went through my email stats to see what IP's where sending email that was being rejected the most. I found only about 10 ip's in countries I have never had a reason to deal with composed about 70-80% of the waisted rejected email (thousands of emails each). I then either banned the country or the ip address. Not so much a solution, as saving some resources.

     

Sony officially stated they had not paid a penny of those $50 and that any similar issues are a matter between the final seller and the client and had nothing to do with them.

Not only that, but their current results generate 50% of the input energy without any of the neutron rich dirty output typical of deuterium based fusion.

So they make more energy by not turning it on. Great.

How about when the huge ball of intensely hot plasma falls into the water at the end without producing even a hint of steam? Great science in that movie

That's some job security for your new hire, isn't it? Unless you can become an "authorised person" merely by telling him/her that you are, which clearly defeats the purpose of authorization in the first place...

Where's a "woosh" when you need one?

Oh, right here.

WOOOOOOOSH!!!

Please get another job! ;-)

So much for Boy Scouts sticking to what its roots were in the 1900's. What's next? Oh yeah... Sleeping badge. You eat 12 cookies, drink a glass of milk, then sleep for 14 hours a day for a full week! It's the ultimate badge that takes a lot of hard work.

History shows us that many new forms of "clean power" have later turned out to have side effects as bad or worse than their predecessors - take Nuclear for example. I have a nagging doubt wind, solar, and wave power may have a nasty sting in the tale too - not on the small scale they are used now. But scale them up to producing large amounts of power, and how much change will you accidentally cause to tides and weather? Physics 101 - Energy cannot be created or destroyed. Take too much energy out of a system and you will change it.

Oh, and lord knows we must not say no to the child and make him not feel like everyone else! One builds the best character by facilitating one's children in being just like everyone else.