[quote] It'd also make being a cop even tougher, so its a shame a few bad apples have to spoil the bunch[/quote]

I'm not sure what country you live in. In the countries I live in and have visited, the cops are typically the worst of society and regularly break the law with impudence.

What this guy said. Or gal. Or hermaphrodite. Or transsexual. But what they said, anyways.

FYI, 1 and 2 are mutually inclusive.

This.

I wish upon this company all the evils that history can heap on them. They killed innovation in the computer business and it's taken 15 years for them to get to a point where they were mostly as good as what they stifled. Now Windows 8 and Windows XP are their enemies, hung by their own garrotte is suiting.

+1

This time Mark is picking on the operating system with the most jarring experience ever found in operating systems. Well, maybe not, the Windows 3.x days are long behind me, but I do remember how bad that could get....

Do we really need more powerful GPUs? What we need is a better way of displaying graphics and a better toolkit to do it.

Whatever happened to the Unlimited Detail guys?

I scoured my brain and just couldn't come up with Print Shop. We (kind of) need another program like that today. I know of none.

Deluxe Paint was awesome on my a1000 back in 1987. ;)

Sorry if this duplicates.

Test Drive - the first really somewhat sort of kind of accurate driving game.

Beachhead - the first game that anyone I know thinks was really good for a PC

Corel Draw - how the mighty have fallen. This was the first vector drawing program with real chutzpa and it came with scads of free-ish clip art.

Wordperfect - another fallen giant, this was the first word processor that had real formatting and usefulness. Today it's still better than Word. ;)

Pagestream - launched the Atari ST as a business platform and sold probably a half million machines. Still available and still powerful today! It blows software like Scribus out of the water but it's not open source. :(

EMACS - the text editor that is its own operating system.

Solitaire - c'mon, this program has been around for two decades and is STILL the most popular Windows program.

TCP/IP - do I really need to say it?

QNX - still possibly the most popular real-time operating system. I first used it on the Bionic Beavers in Ontario back in (IIRC) 1984.

Eye of the Beholder - the game that made both FPS and adventuring cool.

I know there are lot more. My memory is getting pretty old like the rest of me... there were some games on the C=64 that are still not being reproduced today, one of which I remember as being a game in which you built a robotic factory rig that would deliver a payload through a processing system and then produce an end product, and had hundreds of level variations - one of my favourites, cannot remember the name but nothing like it exists today that I have seen.

I came here to say this.

This. Wish I could upvote, despite the inflammatory nature of it.

....they are using Microsoft products and vertical applications with no source code. How long has the open source community been saying that this was insanity?

True.

....anyone wanting Windows 8. Terrible.