yeah, expect divx like lock-downs and timed rentals soon enough with blu-ray. What's wrong with DIVX style lockdowns btw? It seems like there's a market for it.
E.g. Netflix could send out disks which would become unplayable at the end of the rental period so you wouldn't need to return them. As far as I can tell the costs of producing a disk is negligable for DVD and CD and will probably become so for BlueRay and HDVD. So most of the cost is essentially an IP rights license. That implies that you could sell limited duration licenses to people for less than the perpetual one they normally get with a pressed disk.
Actually you could even imagine some sort of equivalent of Flexi singles - i.e. the disk would be manufactured to last for a short period for straight mechanical reasons. Maybe a biodegradeable disk so you can compost it when it expires. I can imagine you'd have a shelf of very cheap time limited movies (a dollar or so) at eye level near the checkouts in supermarkets. Basically the Top 10 best selling DVDs in a disposable format, designed to attract impulse buyers who only want to watch them once.
And it would be up to you whether you bought them/picked them up - I think there will always be a market for pressed disks that don't expire. In fact DIVX shows that maybe that is 100% of the market for DVDs - i.e. people won't buy things with an expiry date, regardless of cost. Mind you, you could make them wholly ad supported and bundle them with newspapers. In the UK newspapers often give away audio CDs - they pay a very small fee to the IP owner for the rights to do it. If you could convince the IP owners that they're giving away only a short license period, maybe you could give away DVDs instead.
But why worry about it? If there is market for time limited movies then you're free to ignore them. And if there isn't a market for them it isn't an issue. And it's odd that the same people who complain that 'the MAFIAA' should be innovating new delivery models rather than litigating tend to complain about things like DIVX, which is an example of them doing exactly that.
What about a vacuum in a cleverly engineered light weight container? Or hot air? Buckminster Fuller had an idea of mile diameter geodesic domes that would levitate from waste heat. They only need to be 1 degree hotter than their environment -
Bullshit. You could easily make a player than uses an m3u playlist to get song names like Winamp does. 40GB is about a one megabyte m3u file. You can generate it easily in Windows too, it's just dir *.*/s/b > playlist.m3u
The player should have a keyboard so you can type a few characters and then select songs with those characters in the title just like Winamp does. I still find that scheme much easier to use than scrolling through thousands of album titles on an iPod. Especially as ID3 data is just text anyway and so not that reliable. E.g. if I search by Artist I albums by "Damned", "The Damned", "Damned, The" since people enter it incorrectly. Unless you're dumb enough to let iTunes 'manage' your mp3 files by renaming them to random 16 byte hex strings the title is a lot more reliable. Even if they are a bit wonky if you put them in a folder with a sensible name you can search for that. It's primitive as hell, but it works a lot better than having iTunes build a huge database out of ID3 data that is probably worthless to begin with.
I copy the MP3s onto the iPod renamed as.htm files and then view them in Safari. It requires some nifty mental arithmetic skills to turn the streams of gibberish back into music in your head, but it can be done.
Actually there's an irony here. Dos used 8 bit character sets based on the original IBM PC. Actually Dos ran on other 8086 hardware so the Dos character set is called the OEM character set for "Original Equipment Manufacturer". Since IBM clones gradually drove out other hardware Dos ended up using the IBM PC character set in the US and Europe. In Asia there were national character sets based on MBCS. They encoded thousands of characters by using a Lead Byte scheme. I.e. characters above 0x7f combined with the next byte to give more character combinations.
But MBCS was hard to deal with. String operations are complicated by the variable width encoding. But Dos needed to do this, since Asian governments and software vendors essentially insisted on this scheme.
When Windows was being designed Unicode had just been standardised. The benefit was fixed width encoding at 16 bit, UCS2. Which meant you could use C string operations like ptr-- and ptr++ again rather than a mess of AnsiNext and AnsiPrev, assuming ptr was a PTCHAR. In Windows a TCHAR is a 16 bit word if you build for Unicode and a byte otherwise.
The irony is that Unicode has bloated to the point where it can no longer be encoded as a 16 bit fixed width encoding. That gives 65536 characters, the Basic Monolingual Plane. But there are more than 65536 characters which means that you need to use a variable length encoding, UTF16, again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16/UCS-2#Use_in_major_operating_systems_and_environments
UTF-16 is the native internal representation of text in the Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP/CE, Qualcomm BREW operating systems; the Java and.NET bytecode environments; Mac OS X's Cocoa and Core Foundation frameworks; and the Qt cross-platform graphical widget toolkit.[citation needed]
Symbian OS used in Nokia S60 handsets and Sony Ericsson UIQ handsets uses UCS-2.
Older Windows NT systems (prior to Windows 2000) only support UCS-2. The Python language environment has used UCS-2 internally since version 2.1, although newer versions can use UCS-4 to store supplementary characters (instead of UTF-16). Which raises the question of why Windows didn't use UTF8. Mostly because it wasn't standardised when Windows was being designed. But there's a deeper issue that applications often infer a locale from the active code page and they would break if it wasn't the one they expect. So the main advantage of Unicode has been lost. The disadvantage that ASCII characters bloat to 16 bits is still there though.
Damn right, given that Safari is a relatively conservative browser in terms of feature. IE 7.0 supports loads of crazy stuff like ActiveX but it's actually doing quite well in terms of vulnerabilities. And it runs in a jail like special low privilege process too now, so exploits are harder to actually exploit.
Mind you, I still use Opera on Windows, since it is conservative feature wise, has fewer unfixed vulnerabilities than IE or FF, and is a less interesting target due to its low market share. Though I don't know if it can run in a "Protected Mode" jail on Vista. It probably should do.
When the machines take over they will probably turn off civillian GPS just to create chaos. That and the Internet, mobile phones and the global financial system.
At least that's what I'll advise them to do. They'll probably need to keep a few human advisers around afterwards. Reward them well too, since they'll be far more food and booze per Adviser than there was per Human before the takeover.
So I do value posts like yours. In twenty years time, when I'm Baltar, this information is probably worth a robot truck packed full of Moet, hookers and blow.
If the point is that Britney/Paris/Nicole aren't "real" news compared to actual events in Iraq/Afghanistan/RonPaul then why is Kurt Cobain somehow so important to deserve mention in the headline? Well just after He (sorry he) died I saw some hipster wandering around with a black T shirt. Using Tipp-Ex (correction fluid for all you Yanks) he'd written "Kurt Cobain died to save us all" in wobbly letters. Which is funny, like something out of Generation X.
I doubt Britney fans will have a sense of irony when she eventually kills herself. On the other hand, I bet Britney would have wasted her parasitic, junkie ex first rather than letting them live on with the rights to her back catalog. I suppose tormenting celebrities watching them self destruct fulfills a deep need in people, like the Roman festival of Saturnalia.
It's true. I've had a fairly serious crash in a Ford Sierra. Car was totally destroyed but I barely felt a thing. If I'd been riding a motor bike I'd probably be dead or at least seriously injured. That bent metal absorbed a lot of kinetic energy that would otherwise have been used to mangle me.
Very impressive really. I'd read about crumple zones and so on, but actually experiencing them first hand convinced me to never drive a small car again.
1) The US is not in a recession: growth is slower but not negative.
That's probably true, but it misses the point. A recession is technically defined as a decline in GDP for two successive quarters. Which is actually quite rare. But low consumer confidence is much more common and protracted.
E.g. in the 30's the economy was in recession for about three years -
And yet most people would say the Great Depression continued almost up to World War II, certainly longer than the technical recession. Similarly, the stagflation in the US/UK crippled consumer confidence in the 1960s and 1970s even though the economy was only in recession for small parts of that period.
I think the problem is that consumer confidence is essentially fragile. If there is a perception that a recession is likely, it will drop as people save. Once people believe the economy is weak, they are not easily persuaded otherwise by GDP figures that show the recession has ended. So low consumer confidence can extend out on both sides of the technical recession period.
My guess is that all the sub prime mortgage issues mean that the US will go into a slowdown driven by consumer confidence, if it isn't already in one. Possibly it's some sort of hangover from the dot com boom and the housing price/credit boom which was expertly engineered by the Fed to keep the economy afloat after it. In a developed country, the economy has a natural sustainable rate of growth which is rather low, and there 'needs' to be a slowdown after each boom to keep the short term average rate at or below that level. If central banks were smart, they'd use interest rates to keep growth in the sustainable range, but that isn't always politically possible.
It's noticable that Japan for example seemed to need to have a period of fairly chronic deflation at the end of its ultra rapid post war growth. My guess is that the economy essentially grew unsustainably towards the end of that as a credit bubble inflated. Politicians knew that doing anything that risked bursting that bubble would be unpopular so they let it happen. It's quite possible that the US has been in a bubble essentially since the mid 90's.
So it wouldn't be surprising if consumer confidence dropped in expectation of a correction. Actually, even if it doesn't, PCs have been good enough for office work for as long as I can remember. Perhaps that stops them being replaced every three years, which used to be the rule.
Rats come from US. My brother say Bush create rats in secret rat factory in secret white house basement and send them all over the world using US secret air pirate spy planes and land them with little parachutes to provoke flood, volcano eruption and eat the people's crops. I fear of Bush also send rats to get inside my room in the night and chew my toes but I have General to protect me from rats.
This is all wrong. I'm sure you are aware that X-Windows is optional on a UNIX system.
That's true. But if you look at what most people use PCs for, a GUI is not really optional for them - it's not like they're going to learn LaTeX to write their documents, or pine to read their emails. So while they could run command line Unix on an 80286, it wouldn't have been much use to them. Certainly far less use than Windows 3.1 and Word for Windows which actually ran pretty well on a 286.
On top of that, my desktop systems were old Sun 3/50s which we ran as diskless workstations. They were fast enough to run X clients efficiently on their 20-inch monitors. I usually had 20-40 xterms and widgets running at a time in 4 virtual desktops. Microsoft didn't have anything that could do this in the mid-80s.
Suns cost a fair bit more than a clone 286 or 386 as I remember, especially if you're just buying a new motherboard, CPU, hard drive and VGA card like I did back then when I upgraded. Mail order places did good package deals for a fraction of the cost of a complete PC and certainly less than a Sun. Suns were very noticably quicker at file system stuff though, I have to admit. Partly it's because they had decent SCSI disks in them rather than cheap IDE ones, and partly because BSD didn't suck at I/O like 16 bit Windows always seemed to.
But most people don't really care about filesystem performance and whether they can run 20-40 xterms. One copy of Word for Windows and an email program that wasn't pine was good enough for them. Which was the point I was trying to make.
Interesting stuff. I got an iPod touch for Christmas. The hardware is superb, and Safari is actually pretty usable for browsing over WiFi
The one thing that lets it down is iTunes. I tried to import 50GB of mp3s from a hard drive and it's basically hopeless. It hangs frequently, and even if it didn't it would take overnight to index them because it's too damn slow. And I don't trust things like iTunes with tens of thousands of mp3s. And even if it worked, the Sync metaphor breaks down when you have far more music than will fit on the device.
Winamp on a PC manages this fine of course - just copy the files and generate an m3u playlist with dir/s/b *.* > playlist.m3u. All of which is limited only by disk performance.
If I could install a third party mp3 player that lets me drag and drop stuff, I'd do it in a hearbeat.
That's not really true. Dos was a clone of CPM, but the 16 bit Windows VxD architecture which runs underneath it was original. And the Windows API was too. You could argue that the 32 bit Windows kernel architecture was heavily inspired by VMS, but it's actually changed a lot since then. And the reason Microsoft do all this stuff themselves is because they want to lock people in to something which is not available anywhere else. If they used a Unix like kernel, Posix and X Windows they'd be commoditized to death, since people could easily migrate to a free alternative.
There's another advantage to being orignal too - Dos and Windows ran for ages on hardware that wasn't really up to running Unix - e.g. 8086 and 80286s with no MMU, horrible graphics facilities and only a few megabytes of RAM. You'd be hard pressed to run X Windows and a Unix like kernel on that but Microsoft stuff was designed to only run on it, totally ignoring high end workstations. Which is another lock in producing situation - once people started to use Windows and bought Windows only applications, it was hard for them to move to Unix later.
That's spelling though. Version 1 of his post had issues with spelling and grammar. Version 2 had the grammar fixed. Why are you complaining about the spelling in Version 2? Didn't you read the release notes? WAIT FOR VERSION 3! Bug reports concerning spelling for Version 2 WILL BE IGNORED.
(I have teenage children. Media players spontaneously generate inside my computer.) No wait! I know what's going on! Maybe the TEENAGE CHILDREN are INSTALLING the media players! It's not spontaneous generation at all!
It's not a bad idea. Before people talked about "b& and v&", now you get permabanned after you get vanned. Pity they can't give pedos an IRL permaban while they're in the Party Van really.
Odd coincidence, as I was writing this Bill O Reilly said "if there isn't a hell, I'm gonna be real disappointed. Because those Internet People, you know...".
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E.g. Netflix could send out disks which would become unplayable at the end of the rental period so you wouldn't need to return them. As far as I can tell the costs of producing a disk is negligable for DVD and CD and will probably become so for BlueRay and HDVD. So most of the cost is essentially an IP rights license. That implies that you could sell limited duration licenses to people for less than the perpetual one they normally get with a pressed disk.
Actually you could even imagine some sort of equivalent of Flexi singles - i.e. the disk would be manufactured to last for a short period for straight mechanical reasons. Maybe a biodegradeable disk so you can compost it when it expires. I can imagine you'd have a shelf of very cheap time limited movies (a dollar or so) at eye level near the checkouts in supermarkets. Basically the Top 10 best selling DVDs in a disposable format, designed to attract impulse buyers who only want to watch them once.
And it would be up to you whether you bought them/picked them up - I think there will always be a market for pressed disks that don't expire. In fact DIVX shows that maybe that is 100% of the market for DVDs - i.e. people won't buy things with an expiry date, regardless of cost. Mind you, you could make them wholly ad supported and bundle them with newspapers. In the UK newspapers often give away audio CDs - they pay a very small fee to the IP owner for the rights to do it. If you could convince the IP owners that they're giving away only a short license period, maybe you could give away DVDs instead.
But why worry about it? If there is market for time limited movies then you're free to ignore them. And if there isn't a market for them it isn't an issue. And it's odd that the same people who complain that 'the MAFIAA' should be innovating new delivery models rather than litigating tend to complain about things like DIVX, which is an example of them doing exactly that.
Talk to an engineer rather than a chemist!
What about a vacuum in a cleverly engineered light weight container? Or hot air? Buckminster Fuller had an idea of mile diameter geodesic domes that would levitate from waste heat. They only need to be 1 degree hotter than their environment -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_nine_(Tensegrity_sphere)
Bullshit. You could easily make a player than uses an m3u playlist to get song names like Winamp does. 40GB is about a one megabyte m3u file. You can generate it easily in Windows too, it's just dir *.* /s /b > playlist.m3u
The player should have a keyboard so you can type a few characters and then select songs with those characters in the title just like Winamp does. I still find that scheme much easier to use than scrolling through thousands of album titles on an iPod. Especially as ID3 data is just text anyway and so not that reliable. E.g. if I search by Artist I albums by "Damned", "The Damned", "Damned, The" since people enter it incorrectly. Unless you're dumb enough to let iTunes 'manage' your mp3 files by renaming them to random 16 byte hex strings the title is a lot more reliable. Even if they are a bit wonky if you put them in a folder with a sensible name you can search for that. It's primitive as hell, but it works a lot better than having iTunes build a huge database out of ID3 data that is probably worthless to begin with.
I copy the MP3s onto the iPod renamed as .htm files and then view them in Safari. It requires some nifty mental arithmetic skills to turn the streams of gibberish back into music in your head, but it can be done.
But MBCS was hard to deal with. String operations are complicated by the variable width encoding. But Dos needed to do this, since Asian governments and software vendors essentially insisted on this scheme.
When Windows was being designed Unicode had just been standardised. The benefit was fixed width encoding at 16 bit, UCS2. Which meant you could use C string operations like ptr-- and ptr++ again rather than a mess of AnsiNext and AnsiPrev, assuming ptr was a PTCHAR. In Windows a TCHAR is a 16 bit word if you build for Unicode and a byte otherwise.
The irony is that Unicode has bloated to the point where it can no longer be encoded as a 16 bit fixed width encoding. That gives 65536 characters, the Basic Monolingual Plane. But there are more than 65536 characters which means that you need to use a variable length encoding, UTF16, again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16/UCS-2#Use_in_major_operating_systems_and_environments UTF-16 is the native internal representation of text in the Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP/CE, Qualcomm BREW operating systems; the Java and
Symbian OS used in Nokia S60 handsets and Sony Ericsson UIQ handsets uses UCS-2.
Older Windows NT systems (prior to Windows 2000) only support UCS-2. The Python language environment has used UCS-2 internally since version 2.1, although newer versions can use UCS-4 to store supplementary characters (instead of UTF-16). Which raises the question of why Windows didn't use UTF8. Mostly because it wasn't standardised when Windows was being designed. But there's a deeper issue that applications often infer a locale from the active code page and they would break if it wasn't the one they expect. So the main advantage of Unicode has been lost. The disadvantage that ASCII characters bloat to 16 bits is still there though.
Damn right, given that Safari is a relatively conservative browser in terms of feature. IE 7.0 supports loads of crazy stuff like ActiveX but it's actually doing quite well in terms of vulnerabilities. And it runs in a jail like special low privilege process too now, so exploits are harder to actually exploit.
Mind you, I still use Opera on Windows, since it is conservative feature wise, has fewer unfixed vulnerabilities than IE or FF, and is a less interesting target due to its low market share. Though I don't know if it can run in a "Protected Mode" jail on Vista. It probably should do.
When the machines take over they will probably turn off civillian GPS just to create chaos. That and the Internet, mobile phones and the global financial system.
At least that's what I'll advise them to do. They'll probably need to keep a few human advisers around afterwards. Reward them well too, since they'll be far more food and booze per Adviser than there was per Human before the takeover.
So I do value posts like yours. In twenty years time, when I'm Baltar, this information is probably worth a robot truck packed full of Moet, hookers and blow.
I doubt Britney fans will have a sense of irony when she eventually kills herself. On the other hand, I bet Britney would have wasted her parasitic, junkie ex first rather than letting them live on with the rights to her back catalog. I suppose tormenting celebrities watching them self destruct fulfills a deep need in people, like the Roman festival of Saturnalia.
grope is only bundled with inGenuOuS, not with Unix.
If you're born after Star Wars, then you're Generation Y.
Not that you'll bother to read this of course.
http://xkcd.com/327/
I think the Chinese would recognize it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddess_of_Democracy
People that question the slow slide into Fascism must be monitored and suppressed!
How do you know? Maybe you're perceiving problems where there are not any problems too?
Pussy? Spending money on consumer electronics doesn't have the same effect though.
It's true. I've had a fairly serious crash in a Ford Sierra. Car was totally destroyed but I barely felt a thing. If I'd been riding a motor bike I'd probably be dead or at least seriously injured. That bent metal absorbed a lot of kinetic energy that would otherwise have been used to mangle me.
Very impressive really. I'd read about crumple zones and so on, but actually experiencing them first hand convinced me to never drive a small car again.
1) The US is not in a recession: growth is slower but not negative.
That's probably true, but it misses the point. A recession is technically defined as a decline in GDP for two successive quarters. Which is actually quite rare. But low consumer confidence is much more common and protracted.
E.g. in the 30's the economy was in recession for about three years -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gdp20-40.jpg
And yet most people would say the Great Depression continued almost up to World War II, certainly longer than the technical recession. Similarly, the stagflation in the US/UK crippled consumer confidence in the 1960s and 1970s even though the economy was only in recession for small parts of that period.
I think the problem is that consumer confidence is essentially fragile. If there is a perception that a recession is likely, it will drop as people save. Once people believe the economy is weak, they are not easily persuaded otherwise by GDP figures that show the recession has ended. So low consumer confidence can extend out on both sides of the technical recession period.
My guess is that all the sub prime mortgage issues mean that the US will go into a slowdown driven by consumer confidence, if it isn't already in one. Possibly it's some sort of hangover from the dot com boom and the housing price/credit boom which was expertly engineered by the Fed to keep the economy afloat after it. In a developed country, the economy has a natural sustainable rate of growth which is rather low, and there 'needs' to be a slowdown after each boom to keep the short term average rate at or below that level. If central banks were smart, they'd use interest rates to keep growth in the sustainable range, but that isn't always politically possible.
It's noticable that Japan for example seemed to need to have a period of fairly chronic deflation at the end of its ultra rapid post war growth. My guess is that the economy essentially grew unsustainably towards the end of that as a credit bubble inflated. Politicians knew that doing anything that risked bursting that bubble would be unpopular so they let it happen. It's quite possible that the US has been in a bubble essentially since the mid 90's.
So it wouldn't be surprising if consumer confidence dropped in expectation of a correction. Actually, even if it doesn't, PCs have been good enough for office work for as long as I can remember. Perhaps that stops them being replaced every three years, which used to be the rule.
http://juchegirl.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-hate-rats.html I hate the rats. Rats have crooked nose and smell horrible. They live in dirty dwelling, commit crimes, give disease and eat the children feet.
Rats come from US. My brother say Bush create rats in secret rat factory in secret white house basement and send them all over the world using US secret air pirate spy planes and land them with little parachutes to provoke flood, volcano eruption and eat the people's crops. I fear of Bush also send rats to get inside my room in the night and chew my toes but I have General to protect me from rats.
I hate rats and I hate Bush. Bush is rat.
Here is a problem with that. I am a comedian. A lot of my work is offensive, yet I do not show my comedy work to anyone at my paying job.
I hear there's a vacancy for a Fun Boss at Wernham Hogg.
This is all wrong. I'm sure you are aware that X-Windows is optional on a UNIX system.
That's true. But if you look at what most people use PCs for, a GUI is not really optional for them - it's not like they're going to learn LaTeX to write their documents, or pine to read their emails. So while they could run command line Unix on an 80286, it wouldn't have been much use to them. Certainly far less use than Windows 3.1 and Word for Windows which actually ran pretty well on a 286.
On top of that, my desktop systems were old Sun 3/50s which we ran as diskless workstations. They were fast enough to run X clients efficiently on their 20-inch monitors. I usually had 20-40 xterms and widgets running at a time in 4 virtual desktops. Microsoft didn't have anything that could do this in the mid-80s.
Suns cost a fair bit more than a clone 286 or 386 as I remember, especially if you're just buying a new motherboard, CPU, hard drive and VGA card like I did back then when I upgraded. Mail order places did good package deals for a fraction of the cost of a complete PC and certainly less than a Sun. Suns were very noticably quicker at file system stuff though, I have to admit. Partly it's because they had decent SCSI disks in them rather than cheap IDE ones, and partly because BSD didn't suck at I/O like 16 bit Windows always seemed to.
But most people don't really care about filesystem performance and whether they can run 20-40 xterms. One copy of Word for Windows and an email program that wasn't pine was good enough for them. Which was the point I was trying to make.
Interesting stuff. I got an iPod touch for Christmas. The hardware is superb, and Safari is actually pretty usable for browsing over WiFi
/s /b *.* > playlist.m3u. All of which is limited only by disk performance.
The one thing that lets it down is iTunes. I tried to import 50GB of mp3s from a hard drive and it's basically hopeless. It hangs frequently, and even if it didn't it would take overnight to index them because it's too damn slow. And I don't trust things like iTunes with tens of thousands of mp3s. And even if it worked, the Sync metaphor breaks down when you have far more music than will fit on the device.
Winamp on a PC manages this fine of course - just copy the files and generate an m3u playlist with dir
If I could install a third party mp3 player that lets me drag and drop stuff, I'd do it in a hearbeat.
That's not really true. Dos was a clone of CPM, but the 16 bit Windows VxD architecture which runs underneath it was original. And the Windows API was too. You could argue that the 32 bit Windows kernel architecture was heavily inspired by VMS, but it's actually changed a lot since then. And the reason Microsoft do all this stuff themselves is because they want to lock people in to something which is not available anywhere else. If they used a Unix like kernel, Posix and X Windows they'd be commoditized to death, since people could easily migrate to a free alternative.
There's another advantage to being orignal too - Dos and Windows ran for ages on hardware that wasn't really up to running Unix - e.g. 8086 and 80286s with no MMU, horrible graphics facilities and only a few megabytes of RAM. You'd be hard pressed to run X Windows and a Unix like kernel on that but Microsoft stuff was designed to only run on it, totally ignoring high end workstations. Which is another lock in producing situation - once people started to use Windows and bought Windows only applications, it was hard for them to move to Unix later.
That's spelling though. Version 1 of his post had issues with spelling and grammar. Version 2 had the grammar fixed. Why are you complaining about the spelling in Version 2? Didn't you read the release notes? WAIT FOR VERSION 3! Bug reports concerning spelling for Version 2 WILL BE IGNORED.
It's not a bad idea. Before people talked about "b& and v&", now you get permabanned after you get vanned. Pity they can't give pedos an IRL permaban while they're in the Party Van really.
Odd coincidence, as I was writing this Bill O Reilly said "if there isn't a hell, I'm gonna be real disappointed. Because those Internet People, you know...".