psst: you realise you've been eating insect[-derived matter] all this time, right? Cochineal is the most common example, I think.

Here's another idea though: your culture finding it so repellant has no bearing on "many others". Trust me, there are many more people out there who do, or would eat insects than otherwise. Welcome to the minority!

You want a headless system with a high-end video output? Other than gpu-based dev work - something sufficiently specialised to warrant a diy build -, where's the need coming from?

Last time I checked, software (i.e. the OS) ran on the hardware, not the other way around.

And if this thing is just a solar charger - admittedly a pretty cool one - where's the linux tie-in? My USB charger works with my phone (that runs on Android*, incidentally). Does that make it big Android news?

* yes, I see what I did. wonder why...

Stop (collaborate and listen!) - I agree the XBMC ribbon isn't the greatest implementation, but don't introduce hyperbole into your argument - the screenshot you reference clearly shows 3.5 selectors, with 4 selectors most likely being accessible at the same time. That's a far cry from "one or two".

(And does anyone actually use XBMC as a photo gallery? First thing I did was go into the system menu and disable half of the services: I want to watch T.V. and Movies, and access some Apps, maybe some Music worked out ok for me, but obviously YMDV).

Sounds like you want Kryten, vacuum cleaner attachment style

Keep in mind this Reinheitsgebot thingy first came to light in 1516. I think our notion of "pure" has changed somewhat since then...

Not to be rude, but I imagine a few select theatres in Japan will be somewhat technologically superior to the equivalent in San Antonio...

Special rights afforded by your Copyright Act (or equivalent). IA have no such (direct) provision.

afaik, IA are covered on the basis all archived material is publicly accessible, coupled with a straightforward removal process for copyright holders.

But at what cost? Arguably the entire south east asia region for a start.

There's been renewed media interest on this topic recently in Australia, not sure what brought it about though.

ugh, forgot to provide link: http://themusicsalon.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/now-i-have-to-buy-white-album-again.html

Men In Black reference?

Or maybe just "real life"; the White Album has been re-released a few times, and the "true fans" (or whatever) can be relied upon to go and buy the latest and greatest... (sound familiar?)

With a large bunch of sysadmins, everyone had their own naming schema. Yeah, you try and get 4 argue-for-the-sake-of-it types to agree on something so trivia^H^H^H important. So we used CNAMEs to give context to the server. apps-prod-3, db-dev etc. All connectivity went through the CNAME... except for the sysadmins I guess. This made life really easy when replacing servers - update dns, drop the virtual iface on the old one, plumb it up on the new.

good! my macbook optical drive has been broken for ages - to be honest, i only noticed a few months ago when a friend asked me to try reading their newly purchased DVD, because their computer was buggered.

I'm pretty sure Michael wouldn't care less about "Sarah Palin" being a trademark, just like my cousin Sarah.