Linux can write to NTFS quite well nowadays. It's an option you can easily enable even if your distribution disable it by default. As for Mac OS, I don't know what it can do natively, as I don't use it, but I've seen 3rd party drivers that offer NTFS-write capability. The ones I saw are paid, and I don't know whether…

On the other hand, there are occasions when the sunk cost fallacy works on your behalf rather than against you. For example, say you purchase a $300 smartphone and after two weeks a new, much better model arrives. You might think: "Ugh, let me ebay this one, losing money on the deal, and purchase the new model,…

I'd say that three important traits are:

I use Backupify for this.

@uplate: I'm pretty sure at some point you'll find out the actual equation isn't linear and a missing "^n" should be added somewhere to yours to make it work. ;-)

@anamika: I doubt this will happen. Yahoo has an habit of just shutting down properties, rather than trying to sell them first. But we can hope some of the other surviving bookmarking services will offer some kind of automatic importing tool.

VOTE: VirtualBox

@BillBallantine: I'd say yes, it does. It's a remarkably polished and easy to use multi-protocol IM client. $5 isn't really much for it.

What I'd like to see is a Google Apps admin-rights delegation function. I have the free Apps version installed for a lot of domains, and it's annoying having to log in and out of each individual admin account to manage things. An unified dashboard, linked to my main @gmail.com account, that allowed me to manage all…

LinkedIn and Blizzard got worried about the whole Gawker security leak and "helpfully" reseted my password in their respective services. Not that the affair actually affected me, as I use different, random and strong password for every single website in which I have an account, so it's more of an annoyance than…

* MS Word 5.0 (DOS), my first real word processor.

VOTE: EditPad

Google: "You won't have access to our user's e-mail contacts anymore!"

VOTE: JDarkRoom

@Woodrow Jarvis Hill: It seems to be made using Qt (or at least I think so, given the qtsomething.dll-named files it installs), which also happens to be the underlying toolkit for KDE, meaning a native Linux version might not be that difficult to develop once the Windows one is properly working (and polished enough…

50% discount to those who "win" NaNoWriMo by managing to write a 50k words novel. Maybe that's the incentive I needed. :)

@FrankenPC: We did, in two steps. First, we made companies into fictional "persons", hence shielding actual human beings from full responsibility. After that, we stopped backing paper money with gold, causing it to become 100% manipulable by whoever controls the official printing press. End result: fantasy-money to…

@FrankenPC: Money is supposed to be a unit of effort, i.e., to have objective value, by a certain line of economic theories. Other theories consider money to be a subjective construct, hence without any relation whatsoever with effort. In other words, the former will say: "I've put 80 hours making this huge block of…

@Unionhawk: LibraryThing has the unsuggester. You type a book name and it tells you what's least likely to be related with it.

@KiloTangoBravo: Nope, you can still get a lifetime subscription for $25. They offer an annual subscription option for those who either prefer it or who want to keep helping the site on a regular basis rather than only once. Also, you can actually choose how much you want to pay for either option: $10/yr and…