No, we read pretty much all the feedback (through filtered and clustered searches) -- the volume is very high, and so we can't respond to individual comments, though.

We are aware of the issue with hardware acceleration on certain setups. Try updating your graphics card drivers and try again?

-- Alexander Limi, Firefox User Experience Team

Huh?

If I'm running an organization like Google or Apple, I want the brightest minds working for me. I could care less if they were white/black/latino/chinese/etc, I only care about their technical abilities and their capability to work well in a team.

Yeah, yeah, laws made to conteract bigoted employers are "draconian" and "racist"

Yes, quota systems are draconian and racist by design...

We have satellites doing centimeter-level laser altimetry with millimeter-level orbit determination flying around the globe every few hours measuring ocean height. When the data from those no longer correlates with the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, I will stop concerning myself with AGW. Same goes for the glacier ice levels.

Until then, you can talk about how much snow or the local temperature until you get bored. AGW doesn't try to predict any of those. It predicts that the amount of GHGs in the atmosphere will increase the temperatures of the global climate (over decades). All the other anecdotes are secondary.

Why was the parent modded troll? He/She has an excellent point. The *ONLY* result from blocking access to iTunes is a loss of revenue from the blocked user(s). Apple has nothing to gain by doing so and would only force said user(s) to pirate apps, since they would no longer have a legitimate method to acquire them.

Mod parent +1 Informative/Interesting.

Damn slashdot for eating unicode arrows. That should be NaHCO3 + H+ --> Na+ + CO2 + H2O

Google recently acquired On2, makers of the Ogg Theora (aka VP-3) codec which was released into the public domain and then taken over by xiph.org.

On2 have codecs VP-7 and VP-8 which have equivalent (if not better) quality than h.264.

It would not be surprising if Google made those codecs available, since they aren't patent-encumbered, and Google is heavily invested in HTML5 --and likes open standards.

This would be the ideal outcome. h.264 is a really bad option.