Funny too, because the fancy code they use today probably uses a compiler/interpreter that is probably built using c/c++. This makes their code better and safer as well.

Just because the most common hardware isn't what "performance enthusiasts" have, mean that valve doesn't target them. I would say that those enthusiasts are part of the niche. Personally, I have a 3 year old video card, and it runs with Skyrim and XCOM, and a slew of other new games with no problems. Granted that I do have a 6 core CPU with 16 gigs of ram, but that only allows me to do work, run and flip through 2 or 3 games (continuously running) and watching a blu ray on one of the monitors. I would also gather that most gamers are casual, and they don't need a quad cord with 4 gigs of ram, to play angry birds and plants vs zombies.

You have to understand something, there is a constitutional right for firearms. There IS NOT a right to buckyballs (or magnets). Its much easier to ban something that is NOT a constitutional right.

I would totally like time and dates to also be in multiples of 10. 10 seconds in a minute, 10 minutes in a hour, so on and so forth, but that would changes what the "second" actually means.

Esp with items like Prism: http://prism.mozillalabs.com/ and the Prism Plugin. Add in Firefox 4 and now you can have a webapp office suite that downloads to an icon, that can access your local files AND provide a web portal for hosting documents if needed.

Which, ironically enough, is coming back to tv.

Why stop there? It should force an automatic reboot, to make sure windows is fast enough to work with their faster than lightning browser.

The only problem I"ve found with Firefox, is with sub standard extensions. For example, adding Fire Gestures, makes all flash video lock up every 20-25 seconds for a half second, at least on my machine. Adding FireBug, makes everything bloat more, because fb holds 2 copies of the web page in memory, plus all the injection codes. Hell with FB, i've seen one tab bloat to like 500+MB. Now turning off this extension, and i can have 20 tabs open for DAYS and memory stays around 60MB. And this is the problem with ANY web browser that supports user based extensions. The fact that FF has thousands of more extensions than Chrome, amplifies this. This viewpoint is like people moving to macs because they don't have viri.

don't forget smartphones. I've always thought, bluetooth was more horrendous, in the fact that most drivers make modifications to the communication stack. Its the equivalent of say every application you own having its own IP stack to communicate to the internet instead of using something standard like TCP/UDP.

I'm not sure if this is a joke or not. Syscalls don't have anything to do with BIOS or EFI. Syscalls are from the CPU, this is only one of 2 ways to get to ring 0 of the kernel, the other being Interrupts. Now, the bios does install default handlers into the interrupt's table but this is generally only for 16-bit mode (yes you can do it in 32bit mode, but most 32-bit operating system do not use ints in 32bit mode.) And although syscalls seem to be being changed to sysenters, the functionality is the same. This applies to all x86/64 chipsets (unless you install your own microcode). Mac computers with intel CPUs still make the same syscalls/sysenters that linux and windows do, this is how they protect kernel memory and code from being accessed by user space applications. They all must go through the predefined syscalls to interact with the kernel.

I'm wondering about all the disabled people with only one eye. If all movies move to this format they will not be able to even watch a decent movie anymore. I smell lawsuits coming when they release the first movie without 2d.

Try again, article didn't say the same, it said native. Which is often the case of not being the same. The whole point of native, is that it conforms to the standards of the given gui. That way, the users that use that gui, will not become perplexed because things are placed in different spots or named differently. The same on every GUI = pissed off users depending on the GUI you are targeting. I mean, seriously, what good is cross platform, if the users you are targeting can't understand your program.