Both support large government at the expense of your rights.

That's true. But the Republicans will bomb small countries while doing so.

Actually he doesn't have to be an insider. It's all in the documents related to the lawsuits, which backs him up... except that he forgot to mention that Nokia did, in fact, first offer the normal terms that it offers to all other handset vendors, including a patent exchange, and Apple refused. So he's not ignorant; just lyi^H^H^H^H slightly deceptive.

2001 called, they want their opinion back! People said the same thing about audio/video back in the day, now look at HTML5.

I'm *NOT* advocating that we just add every format into a browser, but should a good format emerge I don't see any reason not to add it to a browser. Better in the core browser than in an addon: speed and reliability are always better in the core browser.

But there still a large number of "my god is better than your god" nyah-nyahs whose idea of healthy debate is killing others who don't agree with them rather than thinking.

I doubt religion is the cause for this though. People kill each other over football matches as well as many other things. Getting rid of religion wouldn't solve this problem.

Seriously. Many copies. Multiple, ad-nauseum uber redundancy. And, so what about that DRM crap? Is it _that_ important to preserve pop music? If so, when did DRM ever stop us? Burn a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray and then RIP it, upload the thing. Put it on a hardened RAID, what...ever.

True, technology is an ever more complex cycle. I guess we should try to get the info/code down to lowest common denominator. Text? If so, what language? Boggles the mind..but if the unthinkable happens then maybe we can assist the great minds millenia hence rediscover what we did. What we did right, and how to avoid what we did wrong.

So I repeat, whatever the content is, tech records can be fragile. To paraphrase, "We need copies. Lots of copies."

This is such a bullshit answer. a) define user installed. Do you mean they clicked in the wrong place in an IE frame b) much more fundamental: in the old days, we used to send messages around saying "don't be stupid; you can't get a virus from email". The reason for that was simple; it was true. Then Microsoft invented outlook and executable attachments and so on and so forth. Basic security mechanisms that made it difficult for users to accidentally execute code were bypassed for ease of use. This was done for no reason other than marketing advantage and specifically bypassed standard windows software install mechanisms. As such user installed software is an exploit.

No but you do have to render off every variation. And take something like a body kit. What if they want a spoiler. Those are generally painted the same as the car color. Now you have to render off the spoiler 10 times from 60 different angles. What if they want different side view mirrors, again another 60+ angles. Now what if they want the side mirrors but a different interior. The side mirrors will now have a different sillouete and will have to be composited seperately over the interior, but when the car turns around you'll have to switch alpha channels... ugh... And then what if you choose different seats? Well you might as well slice the car in half now for each frame since the interior png is going to have to be a mid ground element between the front of the car and the back of the car. And it'll have to be rendered seperately as a result. So now you have to render out 10 color variations on a side view mirror for both front and back seperately and keep its alpha channel correctly infront/behind of the car door. And so help me god if they want that car door to open that's going to just multiply the pain and suffering. And then later someone else is going to have to code up a flash page to handle all the switches between front/back animations dependent on view.... and on and on and on...

You then are faced with one of two options: Limit the views, visually changeable options or you spend an extra $40k rendering a million combinations in order to demonstrate a trillion possible total combinations when you could have just purchased a $20k computer and been done and offered your customer: more views, more options than would have been conceivable through pre-rendering. I suppose there's another option and that's to go client-side crappy 3D.