The number of people that want to do only those things is so small its a moot point.

google != gmail

It was more than just mail that went down it was all of Google's services. If it were just mail, only a few people would care. It would not have affected me at all.

For the HORDE!!!

Just install Vista...even at idle it nearly loads the machine to full.

Just because it is not a physical item doesn't mean it is nothing. It still costs money to create it in the same way that a car does.

Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with the RIAA trying to tell you how, when and where you can use the item that you paid good money for, but somewhere there is a happy medium where an artist can get paid for their work and fans can use it the way want to without having to steal it.

That's as dumb as saying "there is ZERO link between lost revenue and car theft because they are from people that would never have done business in the first place."

When a product is stolen, there is value taken from the owner that can't be recovered. Whether it was stolen from someone that would or would not have been a customer is irrelevant.

I've never understood this quote. Is beer free and I just wasn't aware?

Right...but then can you run say notepad.exe from this new environment? I would assume so but I've never tried it. It seems odd but I can't think of any reason why it shouldn't work.

I'm curious...if one were to launch KDE in windows, then somehow kill the explorer leaving KDE as the windowing system, could one then launch both KDE and native windows applications in this environment? That would be an interesting setup.

I have an iPhone and their DRM scheme doesn't affect me at all. I pay $0.99 for each song and I'm able to play it on my computer and my phone. If I want to use the song in a home movie or something, I simply burn it to a CD, then import it to my movie project. I can then use my song basically anywhere I choose.