If people are assholes it's generally not conducive to business,
Actually, the most successful business people are, in fact, complete and total assholes. Your argument is invalid.
Windows 1.0;2.0;2.1: forgettable
Windows 3.0: not bad but definitely not good
Windows 3.1: good
Windows NT 3.1: really bad but has potential
Windows3.11 Windows For Workgroups (WFW): very good
Windows NT 3.5;3.51: really good
Windows 95: meh
Windows NT 4.0: bad
Windows 98;98SE: good
Windows 2000: good
Windows ME: evil
Windows XP: good
Windows Vista: bad
Windows 7:good
Windows 8.x: bad
Windows 9: ???
I always figured it was a marketing strategy on a good day. On a bad day I figure it's a cycle of Lazy -> Oh shit! -> motivated -> relief -> lazy
... the problem with buying a small SSD is that you'll just need to upgrade when Valve has their next Steam sale.
FTFY
2 Billion dollars is a ridiculous amount to pay for patents
Well TBH it was 400 million and 1.6 billion in stocks.
when is this going to stop being the domain of research and when are security companies going to get serious about protecting against attacks at this level?"
As soon as someone with a powerful attorney and deep pockets gets hacked via this vector and sues the OEM into oblivion would be my guess.
Ok, you have types with leading lowercase letters, variables with both leading uppercase and lowercase letters, an "If" keyword with a captial "I" as in Microsoft BASIC, and you initialize a string unnecessarily. Please turn in your geek cred card.
He's logged in with a Google+ account. He never HAD one. In fact he actually likes beta!
What good is a ticket to the good life, if you can't find the entrance?
