Well it is pushing into linux territory just as much as flash. Flash is next to unusable in Linux, despite an official flash 9 implementation. The whole, 'we support Linux, but not really' approach from Adobe is pissing me off, so I'm kind of happy to see Silverlight do well.
Very annoying...
RSS feeds have bad HTML entities. So instead of getting ? , which I would see as a question mark, I see &#63 . This is only true of the headlines and not the articles.
I'm sure it will do nothing. People will get used to the force feedback when they need it, and they'll learn to push harder when they want go from one red light to the next in record time. It will just annoy people.
On a related note, I've bumped my gas mileage up from 32 mi/gl to 45 mi/gl...
Linus Torvalds is on the list because he's not a sell-out? Just because he has a belief that some things should be free doesn't mean he's stubborn. He should be replaced with RMS ("It's GNU/Linux! GNU/Linux! GNU Linux!") or Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD). Linus is quoted calling Theo "difficult"...
Here in MN, we can get free wifi at any Caribou Coffee, Dunn Bros Coffee, or Panera Bread (Caribou & Dunn Bros were started in Brooklyn Park, MN and St. Paul, MN). It's been this way for probably five years now. I'm surprised Starbucks has taken this long.
I was having trouble when I first was running Gentoo on my laptop. It was messing up the system clock whenever it shut down, and I couldn't get NTP working. Those days are long gone, but as a consequence, any emails I sent with Mozilla/SeaMonkey/Evolution (don't remember which I was using)...