What I'm missing in the news reports is what the man on the streets in russia thinks about all this? Do they (you?) believe what Putin says on TV? I have no clue about the russian society and their view of Putin so it would be interesting to get some information from the inside.

I would say they should focus on providing the same quality as pirated material on all markets at the same time.
They can never provide better quality, since what they provide will be copied. But make sure all customers with good enough connections can stream/download as high quality as possible, for a fair price.
Don't geo block. The ones who get blocked will get it some other way.
No need for big investments in DRM. What can be seen & heard can and will be replicated. Accept that. You're just making it annoying for legitimate customers, while the pirates enjoy DRM free versions from torrent sites.

In which way is this nerd related..?

What caused the 2 billion price tag? Is alot of research included? Extremely difficult to create the device or what? (Not meant as criticism, just curious because $2 billions sounds like a lot of money..)

Uhm.. No? The point in time the cat died is exactly that point in time, whenever we test it? If we never test the cat, it's *either* alive or dead..

"5) Had 1 red stuck pixel..."
"7) ... I can't see anything wrong with it."

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Can't you just stop patent bomb everything and let patents cover "real" new stuff?

..it doesn't seem to be just another april fools joke :/

Will the operators find a solution, or can the creators of VoIP apps easily find ways around the operators efforts to block them? How would the operators block an encrypted voice call on a random port?

I use XP at home and Win7 at work. I guess many of the things which annoy me in Win7 is possible to fix, but I try to use Win7 and hopefully in the future figure out why it is better, even though I don't see it now. Here are some of the things I don't like with 7 anyway:
- Where is the good old quick launch for the small utils I use all the time?
- When clicking on an app in the menu bar I normally want to open a new instance of it, not hide/show the existing instance.
- When right clicking on an icon in the menu field for an open app the menu window opens far from the mouse cursor (not a few pixels like in XP). In XP I -really- don't need to aim at all for right click -> close app selection.
- When clicking on the calculator button on my keyboard the Win7 brings the open calculator to the front instead of opening a new instance.
- XP feels snappier / faster.
- I like the XP explorer / file manager much more than the one in Win7.

So, what's keeping me on XP? The user experience. I guess Win7 is much more powerful "under the hood" and everything, but so far I haven't experienced anything making me think "Oh, that's good.. Too bad it's not available in XP".

Guess you're not as picky as many others then: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6914 and http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=20278

I like visual studio with visual assist x as my development platform for C++. I'm also using Eclipse CDT on my Ubuntu box, but I occationally have problems with debugging remote hardware and experience small bugs here and there. Maybe it's stuff hardcore linux ppl easily fix, but for me it's easier to go with windows. I would love to switch though, so do you have any suggestions about what to use for C++ development in Linux?

1. Save $1.5 trillion in 10 years with the help from a new tax. 2. Save another $1.5 trillion in 10 years from other cuts. 3. Problem solved..? ...But there are $1.3 trillions missing -every- year, what's going to cover the rest?

I don't have any special opinion about Steve or Apple, normally don't use any of their products. ..But I still think it's good that the running dude did it while Steve personally can enjoy his tribute.

If someone does something you think is great, why not tell them ..before they die?