The only thing I've learned is that the price of oil has NOTHING to do with the actual supply or sustainability as a natural resource and is artificially set by non-sequitur geo-political issues.
The coal plant can be replaced with nuclear, fusion, solar, hydroelectric, etc.
Have you ever tried replacing a car's engine with a Dam? It doesn't work so well.
A bear to recycle? Compared to what? Surely not more of a bear than collecting and recycling everything a gasoline engine spits out over it's lifetime.
I like being in control of my hardware, too. It's just damned hard to find vendors who release open source drivers.
I'd love to pout together an entire PC with nothing but hardware with open drivers.
Got a parts list to this dream PC whose hardware you control?
I just recently re-formatted and re-installed windows, and I'm trying not to bog it down again with crapware like DRM systems that drag down my system performance.
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Didn't someone patent the business model of being a patent troll?
Who says it'll be accidental?
Go for it. I've made a fortune with my patent for two click e-commerce checkout.
Do you think a major Internet player will push Microsoft's technology, even if it was the best possible in the whole world ?
Nope. That's what automatic update is for.
Allowing one man to do the work unpaid begrudgingly is not what I'd call supporting a platform.
They release an officially supported Flash plugin for Linux. Who at Microsoft do I call for Moonlight support on Linux?
The only thing I've learned is that the price of oil has NOTHING to do with the actual supply or sustainability as a natural resource and is artificially set by non-sequitur geo-political issues.
You didn't know oil was a traded commodity?
Thankfully nations who use nuclear power don't want to enrich/reprocess their own fuel.
The coal plant can be replaced with nuclear, fusion, solar, hydroelectric, etc. Have you ever tried replacing a car's engine with a Dam? It doesn't work so well.
A bear to recycle? Compared to what? Surely not more of a bear than collecting and recycling everything a gasoline engine spits out over it's lifetime.
The web has had vector graphics for years now. Ever heard of Flash? This is just native support for vector graphics.
I fail to see how procreation without mean will make bugs squish themselves.
Hacking into your own devices is the only way to get anything useful done.
Define useful.
For many the default capabilities of the device and the default development tools/APIs will suffice.
Name one person who prefers paying for SMS as opposed to sending IMs.
And what devices can I play my iTunes purchased songs on?
Yeah, they'll die because the water isn't acidic enough.
Tell the engineers everything gets coded in .Net, but you can't use Visual Studio.
It's like watching a deer in the headlights.
I like being in control of my hardware, too. It's just damned hard to find vendors who release open source drivers. I'd love to pout together an entire PC with nothing but hardware with open drivers. Got a parts list to this dream PC whose hardware you control?
Apple users also buy Windows Vista and install it on their Macs, using it instead of OS X, just because they can.
Hence the popularity of Parallels.
Not until you upgrade to WMP 10, or insert a CD or DVD which autoruns a DRM installer.
Not for long.
It's like the perfect storm of suck. Maybe that's their business model: suck so bad that nothing, not even light can escape.
Hence the qualifier "known".
I just recently re-formatted and re-installed windows, and I'm trying not to bog it down again with crapware like DRM systems that drag down my system performance.
Then why did you install Windows?
Yep. Third Declension.
If second life is any indication, then no, it won't.
Or the counting machines they sold to the Nazis to figure out who gets the gas chamber and who gets worked to death.