That's beside my point, but downloads can be lent, too, on a variety of media.

Whether your games (IP) are pirated or not, once you get used to the speed and convenience of running them off a hard drive or SD card, why would anyone want to go back to swapping discs (that, in a household with a 3-year-old, often get lost)?

This sounds a lot like a book I read a few years ago:
To engineer is human: the role of failure in successful design By Henry Petroski
http://books.google.com/books?id=mkLB8dasvPYC&dq=engineering+failure+book&printsec=frontcover&source=in&hl=en&ei=wGcfTKjnD8mOlAfquKTACw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=11&ved=0CEkQ6AEwCg#v=onepage&q=engineering%20failure%20book&f=false

Heh. Yeah, that would surprise me, too.

I, for one, could hardly care less about an Apple tablet.

My employer blocks Bing but allows Google. I guess I'd be screwed if I had to use a Verizon Blackberry on my employer's network.

Fair enough... It still doesn't seem like the 'real' anniversary to me, but I can be pretty hard-headed about stuff like that.

Weren't many of us using (at least trying) Firefox well before the 1.0 release? I thought I remembered using 0.8 or something. So isn't Firefox older than 5 years?

Thanks for the links, dtmos!

I've seen a handful of pictures from this Pacific Gyre, but they tend to be closely cropped pictures of nets full of garbage. Are there any pictures that give you a sense of scale for the Gyre? Maybe an aerial photo or something?

Well, better that the Entertainment Software Association does this than the European Space Agency. :P

Is this really a problem, or are some professional photographers just put out because their pictures not showing up on Wikipedia? I hadn't noticed the pictures on Wikipedia sucking, and all my pictures have been licensed such that Wikipedia could use them (though I didn't think of Wikipedia when I chose the license) since I started using flickr, years ago.

Speaking of the license, I think this statement is wrong:
"Wikipedia runs only pictures with the most permissive Creative Commons license, which allows anyone to use an image, for commercial purposes or not, as long as the photographer is credited."
I don't think the most permissive CC license requires even attribution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_commons#Types_of_Creative_Commons_licenses

Oh, okay. Thanks for the explanation, Space Pirate!

That's a good idea, but I can't access the wiki.

Follow-up to my own comment:
When you run the 1.0.0 installer (in Windows) it will detect earlier versions and ask if it can uninstall them before installing the new version. So far, so good.