Please read my comment. There is no limitation on the number of browsers on a PC. Thus, a company admin could create icons in the start menu that runs IE6 and point towards the legacy stuff.

For the rest, he could use a modern browser.

This argument comes up time and time again. I don't think it is a valid one. Sure, a couple of corporate apps are limited to IE6. So? An admin could just make a shortcut in the start menu that launches IE. For the rest (ie. normal web browsing), the admin could install any of the more modern browsers.

I think the "IE6 lock-in" is a myth.
 

Problem is that without partners, you do not have any leverage whatsoever. I am sorry for playing bullshit bingo, but leverage means here that with two partners, you can do more together than each partner separately could have done. Doing everything yourself is a good way to limit yourself or put a weakness in your product (because for instance you know jack shit about electronics which plays a nontrivial role in your product).

I am a business owner and have run a couple of projects for clients. I do not have any partners but I have the same supplier for over two years. We have a client-supplier relation but even there, you need the combination of rules and understanding. But lately I notice that we will never grow beyond calculating costs for the next project. You need partners for that.

If that is fine with you, then do it yourself. I know I will. I am just not a team player and way too bone headed and authoritative to play nice with a partner. However that means a big limitation (besides the obvious strengths).

It wasn't your cat's age that made him urinate on your laptop.

It was Caturday. Anything goes on Caturday.

That, and it was a Dell of course.

When we bought our to-be-built house, we received a brochure and drawings which In my estimate would probably cost between $800 to $1200. That's for an appartment costing $350K close to the center of a big city.

My dad ran his own company for twenty years so has lots of stories. Just a couple of weeks ago he told me one very similar.

He has a supplier that only partly delivers. The guy says he has trouble with his upstream supplier, says that material costs have risen unexpectedly and says that is the reason he has trouble delivering. My dad does not want substandard work so he pays some more.

As a gut feeling he drives over to the guy his site and spots the foreman. My dad asks the foreman, where is the material for my project? I paid your boss some extra cash? Foreman says there is no material for my dad's project, that material over there is for another project which also had not been running smoothly.....

If you want to make sure that money is spent on the right items, do not pay money. Instead pay the bill. But that is not always possible...

The Apple (buyer) experience is probably very different in the US compared to the rest of the world.

Yes, it is. Apple has 10% marketshare of computers in the US , the rest of the world 3%. This number comes from the latest Engadget podcast. The significant difference is something that influences that buyer experience.

"Obviously, it'd still be a good idea to track addresses and enforce a "one copy per mailing address, per release" rule...."

If I was Canonical, I'd charge $0.25 cent per CD. This tiny amount keeps the obvious trolls from ordering limitlessly.

What about Chtulhu? Wanna test that? Some face hugging love?

Dunno about his slaves but Jefferson was someone who raised the bar for himself and others. He'd get up on the crack of noon, 7 days in a row.

An alternative to step 4 is to become a grammer Nazi.

What a strange comment. You are saying you prefer to be invaded, pillaged and raped? Because you do not agree with your country its immigration laws?

>replace an iPod/iPhone battery? Sure, it's possible, but Apple make this as difficult as they can for you

Actually since the third generation of iPhones, replacing the battery has gotten somewhat easier. At first the battery had a little tab that had to be desoldered before soldering the new battery in place. Nowadays that tab can be replaced and comes with the standard 3gen replacement battery.

While a really cool story, I have hard timebeljeving my dreams of good body modification coming true. The human body has a wild adversion against being intruded. Almost anything I read about things being implanted, mentions lots of nasty drugs to counter the body breaking off the implant. And besides if you really hardhack the human body, you are taking risks which you cannot ignore. The smallest surgical action has a risk. Even procedures like circumcisiun have a tiny percentage going wrong, whether it is an infection or a half cut off penis. No i am not joking. IMHO the body is saying: do NOT screw around with me. I am wearig glasses or contacts while I could get a permanent eye correction. but having read the chance of failure, I'm like no thank you.