Why repost articles from Ars Technica? Are you trying to get bought out by Conde Nast?

There is some truth to the saying that boredom is a prerequisite for creativity. Designers are not paid by the number of pixels drawn, lines coded, calls answered, or cupcakes baked.

You are misinformed. Regulation and its subsequent abuses lead give a false sense of security and entitlement, which then makes the misfortunes worse. It is a fantasy to try to make markets into safe, fair, and predictable money-printing machines where no one is harmed, or where everyone is harmed equally. You can regulate endlessly until you finally kill the market you are observing and gradually make all of the participants lives miserable. The real market will move elsewhere. Read some history.

Who cares about the Nobel Peace Prize? Would Linus feel honored or embarrassed to be in that company?

The HTC Hero that Sprint released in the US has a cheaper looking design and is hardly an object of any sort of lust.

Android with FLAC support would be amazing. It's been done through 3rd party mods. There is some interesting info in this thread, including more informed observations about processor issues:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1461

Songbird has had FLAC support for years.

I really need a player with FLAC support. What are the best options?

I switched to OpenWRT as soon as I realized what DD-WRT is about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD-WRT#Controversy

The OpenWRT community is a bit more technical and far more competent.

And it's not clear that he has achieved anything himself (other than in business, perhaps).

I wouldn't touch his API even if it can measure a 10 foot pole.

It has nothing to do with the size of the file.

64bit would help with rendering video and multimedia of any size. Used youtube lately?

I suspect the reason Adobe is slow to provide 64bit support is that the flash player is made up of closed source code from a variety of 3rd party companies. It could be that Adobe is too cheap to pay those companies to port their code to 64bit. This is too bad, because new Linux desktop installations are more likely to be 64bit than Windows. Nearly all Linux software can be compiled to run on amd64 (x86-64). Why not flash player?