You should read that pdf (from sony.net) again: The figure you cite is operating loss. Total sales and operating revenue for 2010 was $77.570 billion.

As for your other points .... why bother, since you flubbed #1 egregiously.

Buy a MS-class laptop with Linux already installed - skipping the WinTax altogether so no need to complain - everything is already configured, except for the custom key strokes you're going to do anyway. Sleep / Hibernate works as well as any other line (and in this post coldboot attack era ACPI S3 can be very foolish to use) , Grab VirtualBox and a retail copy of Win if you really need it. Relax and have a stable system that can operate for years without a crash and enjoy life for a change.

Worked for me .

Back on point as to OP's request: Put Win-whatever-the-wife-needs on the Mac and call it a day. This ain't a purely technical matter ;)

You are confused. That last sentence has nothing to do with freedom of speech - what it claims is a right to be heard. You of course, have the right to speak freely. And I have equal right to ignore you.

I have, very nearly everything she ever wrote - not just Atlas Shrugged / Anthem / The Fountainhead - but all the "hardcore" philosophical writings. She certainly did not build Objectivism on the concept of intellectual property. It's built upon (in a nutshell):

1. The notion that an absolute, objective reality exists, that human hopes, fears, wishes, prayers and the like are immaterial to that reality.
2. Reason is Man's means of perceiving reality and the source of his knowledge and his guide for action,
3. That Man is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others.

What is true is that Objectivism is friendly with the notion of intellectual property: you've a right to the product of your mind (descends from #3, above). It is a capital mistake to read Atlas Shrugged (a detailed view of objectivist principles in action, in novel form) as defining the philosophy, it's way more than that. For starters read Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology and more to the topic of IP, Captialism: The Unknown Ideal.

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I went Galt decades before Atlas Shrugged surpassed Dreams from My Father on the Amazon bestseller list.

The human understandable portion of your post - that part beginning ... ending: "Every application ... the number:" - is the result of a human creating it (creative expression). It enjoys protection under US copyright law.

That string of hex digits is the result of a mechanical process that is a translation - a derivative work. It differs in form, but not - if a reverse translation mechanism is available (and such is) - content. That, by US Law renders the hex string not protected by US copyright (see: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf).

This is the problem. That bit vector ensconced in a device's firmware, even though it is the result of a mechanical process, that mechanical process is but the end point of a creative process and can enjoy copyright protection (US). A hexadecimal representation cannot.

Ok, this one we can see coming miles away:

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Bullshit. True, Gandhi preached civil disobedience but that message was ignored by quite a few - they saw opportunity to settle old scores. Hundreds of thousands died in riots (Hindu vs Muslim, for example) in the interval between 1857 and 1947. More died after in the partitioning of India into India and Pakistan. And let's not forget the conflict over Kashmir which continues to this day.

To ignore the effects of this internal violence on the thinking of the British and Indians is beyond naive.

Pssst .... Open Standards != Open Source Software.

Governments are obligated to hold a long term view on documents, public or internal. Think decades and centuries, not years. The means by which documents are produced is immaterial in such a long view: MSO / OOo will - if either entity survives - be very different software in 50 years than they appear now. But the documents produced by either will still need to be accessible. Portable Document Format, OASIS / Open Document - these (and their open successors) are the only rational choice for government, not merely preferred. MS .doc / .xls, nor the psuedo-open OOXML are not rational choices.

Sheesh ... amateurs. Parent left out one very important component that is absolutely essential for proper playback of the fluffy analog bits from a CD: A CD demagnetizer. Without this device those fluffy analog bits will over time, pick up magnetic lint from things like cellphones, your central air fan and compressor motors (any electric motor, really), heck those fluffy bits can become nearly unrecognizable after a few short months of exposure to the earth's magnetic field.

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Let me say what will happen here at Homey's Place - where you can do anything you like until you get on my damn nerves - when my first .epub with ads shows up:

They, having got on my damn nerves by putting Garbage In ...

Cause Homey to write an Garbage Out script. and plaster it all over the intartubes.

Homey - with nerves now becalmed - then resumes his blissful, no intrusions permitted reading time.

Whoa .... you mean if I move to France I can haz titi while coding? Where do I sign up?

Above this post in the timeline is a post whose signature reads:

Almost correct. I'd put that as can't read with anything remotely resembling comprehension. Some of you write code. God help your users, and multiple gods help your co-workers.

First line of the summary and appearing four times is the word Canada . As in where this happened. Canada - you should grab something to steady yourselves - IS NOT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

So all those pithy, insightful posts about the RIAA (The Recording Industry Association of America), US statutes and so forth are a complete waste.

Yeah, yeah, I know: This is slashdot. Even so, this thread (so far) sets a new low.

You must not live in the "heat pump belt". My house - a whopping 1200 Ft^2, built 1990 - has a 200A service entry ... with a 90A feed - to the heat pump. Unlike central air-cond, that load is present pretty much year round.

Being an electrical type, in possession of a clamp on ammeter with analog out and a DAQ system, I did some measurements some time back. Long story short: I could handle (install another circuit) for that 75A load and charge that car. But I'd need to choose which to do without: Heat/Cool, hot water or cooking with the conventional oven. Peak usage is ~140A. And let us not delve into inrush currents ...

Another item which has received little or no consideration: Power Factor. Currently, utilities "eat" the wasted power from residential service with a PF of 0.7 - 0.8 lag. Wonder how those chargers work? Hopefully not variable-reactance XFMR (worst from a PF vantage). Or phase controlled (SCR / triac - not much better). Or inverter-chopper (can be PF friendly)? Anyone know?

This:

"thousands of big image and video files" + inhouse web server + local ISP (telco / cableco) slow uplink speed = flaky or failure-prone performance

Shared Hosting / VDS / CoLo (in increasing desirability) with fat pipes to a backbone segment is what you need for this.