One thing that is really holding Thunderbolt back (in my opinion) is the holding back of a Thunderbolt spec. The claim at NAB was that the SDK would come out this year, but apparently they only meant it would come out to a select group of companies making high end equipment directed at graphics specialists. I have lots of ideas for what I'd do with PCIe over displayport, but there's no way for me as an individual to get the SDK, and there's no contact person at Intel to email to even ASK how I'd get it. If it's anyone's fault the technology doesn't get adopted, it's Intel's.

Quality not quantity. Portal only takes 3 hours to beat but it is arguably one of the most innovative and well produced games in years.

Some pluses and minuses from my Dreamhost experience:

+ They had an insane deal that I picked up a year ago for St. Patrick's Day where you could buy a year for $10.

- The year is almost up, and they want $10.95 per month, unless I get locked into a multi year plan. You have to buy 2 years to get down to the price of bluehost.

+ They do have a lot of the benefits mentioned by the parent, which I have certainly taken advantage of. I was even able to install a newer version of Python on my account. Access to ssh has made deploying with something like fabric awesome.

- It took them a long time to support Django. I took me a few weeks of messing of reading blogs and wikis and asking questions on email lists before I could get Django on fast CGI working.

+ Of course, a month after I got it set up they release passenger scripts to make Django deployment work easily, so they've improved in that area. It works for Ruby on Rails if you're into that too.

- They are often very slow. Sometimes I send email from my domain and it takes 4 times as long as it takes to send email from my Gmail. Also, my site is often slow to load, and it has been down a few times.

+ If I want to switch to VPS and stay with Dreamhost they are way, way over priced if their VPS is anywhere as slow as their regular hosting.

Overall, they're not terrible, but I find it questionable whether they're worth the price for the level of commitment they're asking.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1135243.html

Yes, Israeli security never invades anyone's personal space.

It is a feature because it means an insecure plugin that security experts have said will cause more remote exploits than any other software this year is banned from the OS. Webkit already supports HTML 5. Those sites need to upgrade their technology if they don't want to endanger their customers.

How disappointing. I hoping this would be more like a Wacom tablet computer hybrid and less like a giant iphone.

"He does propose a solution to the difficulty of how to compensate artists, artisans, and programmers in a digital era: a content database that would be run by some kind of government organization: "We should effectively keep only one copy of each cultural expression—as with a book or song—and pay the author of that expression a small, affordable amount whenever it's accessed." According to the article, Lanier wants a pay per use SOA, the very strategy Microsoft has been trying to implement as a strategy for years. It's the ultimate greed based mashup of DRM and cloud technology possible, all mandated by the government. I wouldn't be surprised if this happened in the near future.

Facebook is always telling me "Reconnect with X", where X is my friend who committed suicide. It kind of bothered me the first time it happened, although now I just see it as darkly humorous.

My company made a policy to use Pointsec for full disc encryption on all Windows computers. When this happened, operations that took seconds quickly increased to taking minutes. My solution: I switched to a Mac.

So we have billions of dollars of debt, inadequate health care for most of the country, and we're concerned about whether astronauts are depressed?