Buy a USB foot control (check out infinity or fortherecord), and download the free player from fortherecord.com. You can stop, start, rewind and fast-forward without having to take your eyes off the screen or leave your word processing app.

This may make the studios even less money in the long run. I see less people buying the movie or renting the movie. How you ask? Well, there is always going to be the guy that buys a movie. He's going to buy it, he's going to watch it, then he'll want to talk to his friends about it. But they haven't seen it because they haven't bought it and they can't rent it. So, the person that bought the movie will loan it to his friends to watch. Now they can all talk about how badass/crappy/sad that movie was. The studios make one sell, yeah, but that's probably the type of person that always buys movies anyway. What they've lost is that extra few rentals they could have had from the movie. No extra copies sold, and rental activity also goes down. Once that happens, they'll just blame it on piracy though. Maybe this is what they are after.

Certainly not. The Bundeswehr was formed in 1955, several years after the end of WW2. In 1933 there was the Wehrmacht

I think the article is speaking more to the developer and OSS evangelist set, but I get what you're saying. Another non-user metric that I find rather revealing about the comparisons made by the article, yet not addressed by the article, is:

* Can you install one operating environment on the other?

In desktop, this would be handled by VM's, WINE, Wubi, etc. On phones, it's interesting to note that the N900 is powerful enough to run VM's of other OS's, like Palm Garnet, Debian, and even Android itself. Most of the Android stack is on top of a similar Linux base, so potentially Android could even be compiled to run "natively" as an interface alternative on the N900. This has already been done on past N-series tablets, and the N900 is more powerful than any of those past devices. I doubt the inverse is true, that running Maemo on Android is possible, but that might be an interesting hack. I would say the effort required is definitely asymmetrical between the systems at this point, with Maemo being clearly more the flexible operating environment.

The definition of traffic to give priority to is usually - mine is important. The other guys is not.

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What about a large bunch of coders working at home who all need to download the latest build. To be nice they have set up a torrent site. Opps that gets downgrade so they decide to ship it all as email attachements because that has higher priority.

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What about people that play games for a living. Yes the gold farmers. Who says there work is less work than the executive who remote desktops in to read email rather than using a remote email client.

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What about the movie reviewer who needs to download and review the latest movie.

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Yes some of these are stretching it but defining work/play and priority vs not priority needs to read the minds of the end user not look at the traffic type.

Ditto everything Smythe said.

Laserfiche (or LF) is just what this is for. It is DOD, DOJ certified and crap, and is used by all branches of the military and several other areas of the government as their document management system. With several different software offerings, just about any situation can be taken care of. It's features include the ability to search based on document name, template information, or OCR'd text (which the software also takes care of). With add-on features such as Quick Fields, it may be able to automatically sort, add template information, OCR, name and then store the documents. It really is a nice way to go. Satellite offices can access and be either full or read-only users. It has the ability and modules to connect to just about any other type of data/information system (GIS, financial software, etc) and is very scalable.

I was a tech for 5 years with a LF VAR. I'm not there anymore. We were constantly cleaning up messes left by other document management systems. Take your time with this thing and really plan your naming convention, folder hierarchy and user setup. It's easier to get it right(or as close to it as possible) then going back and having to fix it later. A good LF VAR should help you with this. Definitely check references of competing companies. Some VAR's are A LOT better than others.

I used to use a program called mailwasher (google it) to help get rid of spam. Instead of opting-out, I'd use mailwasher to bounce back an undeliverable message. Eventually, your "invalid" email address will get purged from any list that's sending you spam. It won't get rid of all your crap, but it can help.

Since when did the Boy Scouts end up on MS' payroll? Oh, wait...maybe if you change enough Wikipedia entries, you get a new merit badge.