Well, the market they care about in this case is desktops, so all other niches are not relevant to the discussion.

None of those are comparatives, so he probably meant the 'other ones'.

That's true, but it wasn't Jesus who did that, it was the Bolivians! Ask Evo Morales! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnGCQGFt81Q (skip to 30s for the relevant bit, but the whole thing is hilarious)

Why, sure you can: http://web.archive.org/web/20080211140314/http://cs-people.bu.edu/charlton/probpt.pdf :P

> ESX can peacefully coexist with Linux.
There's also the fact that Linux is (and will forever be) GPL2, and not GPL3. That's not always the case with other FLOSS.

If you want a more comprehensive view supporting this guy's work, check out Pallywood. You'll see it's all staged.

TrueCrypt might not be the best option, if you plan on having the image mounted in several machines, due to sync issues as mentioned by sibling posts. If you're on *nix, encfs is a better solution, as it works individually on each file, and can handle the updates without remounting.

i haven't much used the gtalk audio/video calls, but I don't think it has multi-party calls, screen sharing or PSTN integration, both for dial out and dial in (except maybe through Google voice? But even then it'd be US only). The basic components might be there, namely the actual video calling and the huge user base, but I wouldn't call it a strong competitor for skype just yet.

This is the second time I read about this, and yet I commonly talk over Skype with INRIA researchers...

They should print the data as captchas, so they can't just OCR the results...

is the CowboyNeal option!!!

That's true, but when compared to the source material, the movies (even good ones) tend to pale. I guess when making them out of something which contains much less story than a book (such as a game), there isn't really any good way to come up with good movie content.

Skype calls and IM worked out of the box on the N900 since day one. What are you talking about? The video calls are new. I've just tested them and they work with skype and gmail with no issues. I haven't tried SIP video yet, though.

three words for you: stop, stop, play

Probably you'd see a similar distribution, but shifted somewhat to the right. Although we have our share of stupid people making stupid comments here, head over to youtube, digg, or some other "wider audience" site and you'll find whole new levels of stupidity.