Hardware with only windows drivers. By requiring windows 8.1 computers to have a certain level of hardware spec, they can ensure incompatible components on every computer and argue that the OS is required by the computer chosen.

This reminds me of people who complain about slavery in the past, but have absolutely no concern about slavery in the world today.

It's more about perceived offense than freedom.

I can give a few points for the iOSification people out there.

1. Yosemite requires signed drivers. A bit more iOS like as you can't easily swap in hacked drivers for non-supported but basically the same hardware.
2. Such as 3rd party SSD disks which (afaik all Yosemite betas) do not have TRIM support in the official drivers. This makes people feel like Apple is discouraging self upgrading. Buy a more expensive OEM SSD, or just get a new Mac when you need a larger one?
3. RAM being soldered on more systems such as the new mini.
4. Built in video mode checks preventing retina scaling on 3rd party monitors and the driver signing limitations preventing workarounds.

There's a lot of people who have long feared Apple locking down hardware and making them more appliance like. It's looking like these fears are gradually becoming more realistic. With signed drivers in Yosemite, security has been improved but with another loss of freedom and apparently arbitrary hardware limitations. It's true the OSes at this point are quite distinct, the locking down trend can be easily argued however.

It totally screws up the Secret of Nymh. :_(

Buuuut... They were genetically enhanced rats, so it still works.

It's ok everybody CRISIS AVERTED!!

Fusion of the 3rd dimension into the 1st and 2nd.
Brilliant!
Once you repeat the process and fuse the 2nd into the 1st you get an exponential increase in power AND massive space savings.

There's a wifi enabled printer at the religious place I go, gets used every other week or so for printing out emails, forms and misc instructions, all from mobile devices. You may not print from mobile but it does have its uses.

That's easy!

A kilometer is 1000MB
A kibimeter is 1024MB
(Assuming a bitrate of 256mb/sec)

Equally silly is the "things are better than ever" response to that.

Some things are better, some things are worse. Let's look at the evidence to see which it is in the case of $RANDOM_TOPIC.

that'll teach those heathen "pill first" types to properly sip of the water and THEN put the pill in their mouths.

That's silly. Completing THIS Marathon in 2 hours, that would be a real accomplishment!
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_Trilogy

You forgot school busses with the "No passing when red light flashes" signs on them.

Kids LOOOVE to just run around the front of the bus and into oncoming traffic.

Who cares? The whole purpose of this phone is to get poor people online. It's reason for existence is it's computing abilities. The people who need this already have some dirt cheap Nokia they use to do money transfers with. Hence the 2 sim slots in this phone.

Given the review, I'd say it probably fails as a phone as well.

I believe iTunes had an SDK for making device drivers to sync with as well. Many suspected they were either idiots or it was an intentionally manufactured controversy.

Like flying bumblebees, if the math says they can't fly yet they exist, it leads us to a better understanding of reality. When math and reality don't match up it causes a frenzy of investigation to resolve the problem.

I hope the math is correct, because that's the more exciting scenario.

Sounds like Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes#Dichotomy_paradox

ie: halfway,halfway,halfway, you never get there.