Oh the Nazi's would have loved our immigration politics over the last decade or so.

From a certain point of view

As in the Matrix? Where did it say that?

All it will take is a dubious copyright or patent claim against Linux get someone's connection cut. Make no bones about it: AFACT has been much more organised and persuasive than the RIAA & MPAA and too are attempting to force ISP's to do their dirty work for them.

Managed code.

Why? Managed code is not tied to an architecture, thats one advantage Windows 8 ARM will have over previous attempts to expand to PPC and Alpha.

Except DA's dont usually engage in petty "fine" crimes. A cop fines you, you pay the fine end of story where a DA only gets involved if you contest it. District Attorneys have much better things to do like prosecute rapists, murderers, drug lords, etc.

OK, here's a basic education in what Steam actually is:

Its a distribution platform first and foremost, eliminating the need for optical media, changing discs but it plays another role. It ensures if your hardware is up to snuff your game will play. It will install anything neccesary to make sure the game runs. If you get an old game that doesnt run well on DirectX 10? It will install DirectX6 or whatever is optimal for that game side by side. It also puts save files in the cloud if you so wish.

Now: Ads are on the "Store" front page. Just dont go to the Store front page then. It lists top selling titles, specials going on at any given time plus top 10 selling lists, etc.
The requirement of Steam? Starcraft II requires Battle.Net, Xbox 360 titles require Xbox Live to play online.
Always running? Then set your settings so it doesnt always run.
Why not just use the Internet? What do you think it is? You think a web browser? Giving a browser the ability to install and update applications is safe? Have we not learned from ActiveX?

You can buy a phone without a plan but can you use one?

'Citation needed' was in reference to Linux would be much more virus prone than Windows. You may think that result by assuming popularity and not bad coding is responsible for Windows being as bad as it is, or assuming Linux coding is just as bad.

And those numbers for market share you got was OS and Web browser request to their site, Linux primarly runs on servers (and now mobile phones due to Android), very few people (and nobody should) have web browsers on a server (hey Microsoft, sorry I didn't see you there!).

Where will multiple phones suit people: especially considering they need to be on a plan. People wont fork out for more than one plan (unless there is a tax benifit for a business phone).

This is the age of converged devices, the smartphone boom is comming at the shrinking (at least in the west) of MP3 players, PDA's, dumbphones and in the future possibly handheld gaming devices.

2010 was no doubt the year of the smartphone, but it feels like the market is bordering on saturation. There are just soooo many devices out there. Think about how many phones HTC alone released to market.

2011 is looking to be the year of the Tablet, we already knew about the 10" Galaxy Tab for a while, and Samsung also have a slider model (Wintel). Asus have 4 (Slider & Transformer 10", 12" Wintel & 7"), HTC are rumored to have 3 (one not using Honeycomb) in the pipeline, plus the Motorola Xoom & rumours of an iPad 2.

I personally like having keys, thats why I got the less powerful HTC Desire Z (T-Mobile G2) over the Desire HD despite prices offered were the same (outright, unlocked). I could see myself getting the eeePad Transformer despite this Galaxy Tab & Xoom look freaking awesome.

You do realise that Gentoo is the one that you compile.

Indeed, Samsung did the Galaxy Tab on 2.2 and it works really well. HTC has mentioned they were intending on putting 3.0 on a phone at some stage.

Try telling that to Samsung, I'd take my Galaxy Tab over the iPad anyday.

In Australia we would call that a 5GB plan. Doesnt happen so much on mobile data but on ADSL its very common that once the 'data limit' has been reached you will get throttled to 72k. Looks like Virgin is applying a similar principle to mobile data.