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As someone who used an Ubuntu box for a media player for 6 months, I have to say that Linux is _almost_ good enough. My major problems included:

(1) Because there was no cooperation between the decoders and video cards, playing HD 1080p content at 60 FPS would skip a lot. Perhaps a beefier CPU would help, but the same machine running Windows had no trouble.

(2) Samba, or at least Ubuntu's version of it, is very flaky. Some days it would see my networked drives, other days it wouldn't.

(3) Moonlight does not handle DRM content from Netflix. If my TV or XBOX did not already handle Netflix, then this would have been a show stopper.

All that said, I did run it that way for 6 months, so I guess it was "good enough".

Dearest Bill Gates,

You are a very clever man. You see trends that most people ignore.

You're probably right in this assertion.

But you suck at time scales. It's like your fracking achilles heel. The world just doesn't change that fast. Dude, it just doesn't.

Peace out,

-Frank

Wow, a "computer scientist with a background in the formal specification of programming languages" thinks that the SEC should be "using a formally-specified pure functional programming language".

Yes, and when I worked at GM, I thought everyone should buy GM cars. Go figure.

Looks like fun, I'm going to try to make it. And I'll bring my WinPhone 7 Circuit app with me. http://icircuitapp.com

I don't like to throw mud in the face of Google since I like their products and am still not sure myself how I feel about their Jan decision.

But this is just... lame.

If they are so susceptible to sales and the bottom line, they should never have made such a big deal about it back in Jan.

The less the government sees of the internet, the less they interfere with it. I hope they blacklist the entire thing.