The fact is, our culture has been privatized.

When has that ever happened at all in history?

Tabs on top are fun, but work better in chrome.

I tried the RC, and the tabs aren't truly on top. So, if the window is maximized, I can't just toss my mouse cursor to the top of the screen and have it sitting amongst all the tabs.

Instead, they put a little 'Firefox' dropdown at the top. The dropdown should be somewhere else-- the tabs need to be on top so they are a 'million pixels high'.

Evidently, it will be available on vinyl...

I don't have a problem with cyclists who obey traffic laws.

But I would like someone to comment on this:

If, as a car driver, I pass a cyclist, and then reach a red light, why does the cyclist always ride along the right-hand side of all the cars in the line and go straight to the front of the line?

This to me seems strange. In a car, I don't try to get around the other cars in front of me at an intersection.

In the past, when I used to do my commute on a bike, I'd always maintain my correct position in line at an intersection (once a driver has successfully passed me, he or she shouldn't need to pass me again, in my opinion. To most drivers, it's actually *stressful* to pass a cyclist, because they are worried now about traffic both to their left and their right).

So, what is the recommended course of action at intersections-- should the cyclist maintain their place in line or go all the way to the front. And if the answer is to go all the way to the front-- why is that?

I would like to believe this, but it hasn't been my experience.

I can tell you this: Vista (!!!) appears to run smoother and with a more-responsive UI on my laptop than when I try a default ubuntu install on the thing (for example, flash just crawls when I am viewing it thru firefox in ubuntu).

It has been my experience in the past that every time I install linux, it runs slower (or at least appears to run slower) than the windows install on the same machine.

I'm not trying to troll. Maybe someone could explain this phenomenon to me. I actually *want* to switch, but I can't if the alternative is providing a degraded experience.

I hate replaying to my own posts...

Although an interesting side effect is in play:

the used market would have a limited supply of used games
the first party would have an infinite supply.

never saw that scenario in economics class...

Allowing the resale of your license for a digital-only game would provide a stop-gap against price fixing.

Even if there is only one 'first party', they would still need to compete with the used market, which would regulate prices.

Now, if we could only convince them to let us re-sell those games...

Digital distribution is fine, as long as these guarantees are in place:

1) I can transfer my rights to the game to some 3rd party (ie, selling it on the 'used game market')
2) I can play the game without it needing to 'phone home' (so I can play it offline, and I can play it even if the activation servers go away).
3) I can play my game on any other device (eg, my wii breaks down and I buy a new one-- i should be able to play all my purchased games on the new one).
4) If the next generation console is backwards-compatible, I can transfer all my old games onto it and play them there (again, hopefully this would work even if the old activation servers no longer exist).

wrap it all up in drm if you want, but it needs to walk and talk like physical media, including all the freedoms (rights) i have now with my physical media.

It is worth noting that Facebook violates privacy of more than just its members.

The summary does not mention this, but one of the things the Canadian study found was that users of Facebook can post photos and Tag the names of each person in the photo (whether they are on Facebook or not).

I believe there are good reasons why a non-Facebook user would not want their images posted, and for that matter, have a searchable Tag posted against that image.

Presently, I can't 'opt-out' of images of myself being posted by members, even though I am not on Facebook.

And on the same subject-- should I even need to 'opt-out'? Maybe they should require 'opt-in'?

The article mentions OS X and the fact that they will be running out of cat names pretty soon.

My prediction: as soon as they run out of cat names, they'll go to 'OS 11'

Steve Jobs will market it by saying 'this one goes to eleven... It's one better, isn't it?'

Along with this is that anyone who begins a statement with 'in this post-9/11 world...' is about to try to convince you to give up some sort of freedom.

We still have about 5 and a half years to fully set up the back to the future 2 future.

i know i'm saving up for my hoverboard right now.