Exagerated? :)
These "news" are just wrong! Flickr is the best Yahoo! service and a flourishing community and devoted paying customers.

I am shocked by the incompetency of the author of this posting today.

I started developing XODA (xoda.org, sf.net/projects/xoda) some years ago for the same needs. Now it does the job for me even though some more features were implemented as users started requesting them. You may want to give it a try. :)

Disclaimer: as already mentioned, I am the developer.

Most significant should be the month? Like the Sunday we call start of the week and at the same time part of the week end? Or... the "World Series"? That kind of the {arr,ign}ogance I was talking about! You, pipe throwing clown. :)

Being an American, I feel ashamed by the ignorance a lot of Americans show despite of their pretensions to be (oh-so-cool-)"geeks". The "Month-Day-Year" format is used almost exclusively in the US. And this is basic knowledge! How should this day be then an "International" Pi day? How is it possible for this to make it to the Slashdot index without being corrected??

I abandon Netflix! First time I visited the website, I was really willing to subscribe and use it. Then I saw this requirement... I never went there again.

Why don't you first read the official statement of the American Dietetic Association on vegan and vegetarian diet and then try to talk nonsense about the diet of several hundreds of millions people on Earth?

Even if the results would have been published a year ago, exposure to options like this are preserved only to people participating in studies until the therapy is approved and established. This takes some 3-5 years at least. Also keep in mind that newer things are by far not always better. Btw., here is another interesting article regarding this topic showing that there is a lot of space to work in this direction: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-6143.2012.03992.x/abstract

The point is, I don't care if the others can get the difference! Regardless of the data! I can and couple of blind tests (yes, using sox and some shell scripting, it is possible to test yourself blindly) on myself proved for me(!) that there is a clear difference between 16/44 and 24/96. I could not hear the difference between 24/96 and 24/192 though. But banning higher resolution sound because the majority can not appreciate quality is like closing galleries because most people don't understand Edward Munch.

What is Azure? (Are you kidding asking about a service run by a company with the reputation like the owner of Azure?)

I could understand some price differences in offering different qualities on a carrier (e.g. CD vs. DVD-A). But I definitely can not understand why I don't have the opportunity to buy the highest available quality. Studio recordings are done in 24bit/192kHz and not in 16bit/44kHz. The difference is as audible as it is between mp3 (even at 320kbit/s) and 16bit/44kHz (CD quality) when you have equipment used to be called audiophile but easily available nowadays. As long as 24/96 recordings are offered for $80 per album, I will refuse to buy them. And I am not sure that this is the goal of the music industry. It is just that greed and stupidity run hand by hand. Unfortunately the discussion about higher quality recordings is far from getting relevance, as we know that the most successful online music store price a song at $1. (On top of that they put also some restrictions on how you should use it.) At this price you could get a CD with CD-quality sound, carrier and a booklet. Still, this music store is so successful that the music stores almost disappeared from the streets.

Gates citing objective data is a rare event. The problem is not that (this time) he said the truth. The problem is that it should be not him propagating something that makes sense. Because the thinking part of the population would start looking suspicious on something which might have been previously widely accepted. He should just keep his mouth shut! Even if he has the truth in his mind!

What is "Bing"?