Of all the people who complain so categorical against glossy screens, how many have actually used one over a longer period?

I've switched from an old MacBook Pro to a new MacBook unibody a few months back and was first doubtful of the new screen.

I have a long commute to work by train and usually work on the way in the mornings and evenings, when the sun is shining flat, and the train makes a lot of turns so that wherever I sit, the sun is going to shine from all directions.

I was amazed how well that worked with the glossy screen. For one it is perfectly visible under direct sunlight. There's a slight rainbow on the colors but there's no worrying that the sun shines on your screen. Then there's the bright backlight that is bright enough for when the sun shines at things reflected in the screen. And finally, while it's true that the screen picks up reflections, it actually picks up less ambient light. So if you simply focus on the image and not on the reflection, it turns out to be better legible than a matte screen.

Or maybe, on the highly competitive flash chip market, they bought a large number of 4GB chips they weren't able to build into the old nanos.
Instead of producing outdated players they wouldn't be able to sell very well, Apple decided to produce a limited number of new nanos with the stock of 4GB chips they had left.

VLC's subtitle support is very basic and barley usable sometimes. It's becoming more common to include ASS subtitles in MKV files. ASS subtitles are very powerful, allowing many font-, color- and placement options and even complex scripted animations. VLC strips away all the formatting and makes subtitles that also translate signs and on-screen text almost unusable.

AFAIK, MPlayer is the only player on OSX that can handle ASS.

And the command-line is really very robust and versatile. The combo of MPlayer and MEncoder can get you very far from ripping RTSP streams to converting exotic formats to easily ripping the audio track from a movie. VLC is very powerful too but very shaky in anything it does. It has gotten much more stable but is still far from good.

MPlayer?
Works with the same base library as VLC (ffmpeg's libavcodec) but is a much more mature product. It's more a command-line player but there's a good GUI for OSX.
As far as I know, MPlayer is the only option on OSX to display MKVs with h264, aac and ass soft subtitles correctly.

Unfortunately, the binary on the official homepage is very out of date. Get yourself a current build here:
http://www.haque.net/software/mplayer/mplayerosx/builds/

The remotes don't do anything being paired. It's only the computer that stops listening to any remote except the paired one.
So if you pair a remote with a mac, that remote still works with all macs that aren't paired (still listen to all remotes).

You can't lock down a computer reliably if someone gets physical access to the computer and time to work with it.
Setting a firmware password will lock the computer down for average users but expirienced ones will be able to circumvent it.
The only way to protect the data is to strongly encrypt it. There's no way to reliably protect your hardware, though.

Graphic Concerter isn't bundled with new Macs anymore. I had it on my Powerbook G4 but it's missing on my MacBook Pro.
IIRC, Apple stopped bundling Graphic Converter all together at that time.

ZFS is not only about maximum storage size. It also offers functionality that can be useful to the average user.

I especially find zpools interesting. The ability to create different pools over different sized disks and different controllers, adding more space dynamically to an existing pool and included striping and redundancy really is a great feature. ZFS disk/space management compared to traditional RAID seems like quite a big deal.

Remember that speeds don't translate between technologies. 16x DVD burning equals the data rate of 5x Blu-Ray burning. 2x Blu-ray is 7x DVD burning and 4x Blu-Ray is 13x DVD.
The data rate is actually pretty high even for 2x burning. It's just that you transfer much more data. But you won't find yourself burning a 50GB Blu-ray as often as a 4.5GB DVD. In this regard, I don't think these drives can be called slow...

Archive.org has versions of the support page from April 1998 through August 2006:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.apple.com/support/