No, MS isn't linux, they're not good at separating kernal and OS versions. Windows 7 came after Vista (Windows 6.0) - that was no coincidence.

That would be true if MS didn't use those numbers as part of their versioning. Windows 3.11 used it directly, and Windows 7 came after Windows Vista (6.0)

Looks more like the "Hackers" took $5000 from the FBI. They could have just been scammers and not even had one.

I thought that was the best part of it! The plot basically made no sense and lots of unreasonable/impossible things happened, but after this huge setup of aliens and shields that prevent radar, for that 5-10 minutes they made it just like the game of firing on a grid coordinate and hoping to hit a ship!

Interestingly, Windows 7 was 6.1, Windows 8 was 6.2, and Windows 8.1 was 6.3

Basically the numbering system between marketing and development don't even scale the same way.

You can set up a computer in the home office and a TV in the family room. Then you control it using your phone.

What's really missing is that ChromeOS is made to be a lightweight almost terminal system with nothing but the basics installed.

The article even mentions that it will be "Streaming" Photoshop from the cloud - which makes more sense for a ChromeOS program:

Even though Chrome OS is linux based, this version of Photoshop looks to be web based so it could run on anything that has a modern web browser.

The FAA is the "corporation" in this case. Just because it gets its money from tax payers doesn't mean it can't abuse its employees and doesn't mean the employees don't get human rights.

Probably so - American workers are much more efficient than in the past which is part of why unemployment is so high. If businesses hired two employees for 30 hours a week rather than one for 60, it'd be much more beneficial to society. Of course there are issues with employee overhead such as health care, but that's just more reason the US needs to meet the level of the rest of the first world countries and provide it.

There are still difference between humans, unions, and corporations. If you think a union is a monopoly on the supply side of labor, then the corporation is a monopoly on the demand side. You also have to remember that monopolies aren't illegal. We have laws against abusive monopolies to protect consumers (people) from abusive corporations. Unions do the same.

Unfortunately, short term gains often come first, so many don't even pay employees a livable wage.

By that logic, the FAA has a monopoly on hiring air traffic controllers, but no one would say that because it's ridiculous. Unions exist because a single employee does not have bargaining power against a corporation. Without them, we'd be working 10 hours a day, 6 days a week with no benefits. People aren't the same as products. They have basic needs and human rights that we prefer them to have.

That's how strikes work - they cripple their industry as an extreme resort for bargaining purposes. You can make it sound very scary for other situations too, like the time the fast-food workers conspired to cripple the nation's fast-food industry - holding the rest of us hostage!

A comparable situation with phones would be when manual patching was needed if the switchboard operators went on strike to demand better working conditions/pay. Strikes are done by employees against the company, not by companies against the government.

You are correct. A union would have been able to negotiate better pay and working conditions.

They aren't hiding it in their mattresses, but they are keeping it in banks and other investments where the money will take a long time to trickle down. It's not getting spent like it would for poorer people.

The nation is also bigger than any time in history. It's not a good method to use the raw numbers, much better to use GDP or some per capita method. The deficit has been shrinking, we're cutting all our most valuable programs mostly because health care costs are rising and eating up the extra income. Defense obviously plays a big role, but recent cuts have reigned that in.

We basically have two options - get medical costs under control (something the GOP won't touch) or collect more (also something the GOP won't touch).

When the amount collected is less than the amount spent, it's a collecting/spending problem. As much as Republicans want you to think it's only one side that matters, it's basic economics that collecting more will help fix the issue better than collecting less.

I paid my taxes online (Federal and state), though I did have to type in a few numbers. Looks like they're fairly close to being able to make it automatic, but I found it pretty weird I had to reference a lookup table in a PDF to get a value based on another value on the form.

Interestingly, the trend has been moving back that way with laptops that have no buttons (though you can get a context menu with two fingers). Most people don't need the extra complexity.

My samsung s5 is allegedly water proof - I've seen people use them under water, just don't feel like drowning mine. It has a little cap that goes over the charging ports that makes it that way.