The flat look scales easier between various screen sizes. By just having a big monochrome square, it doesn't look any different whether on a 4" screen or 30".

You've clearly never managed a fleet of PCs. As much as Windows sucks, it's the only product out there with a decent integration of desktop, endpoint management, directory services and back office apps. Until Linux or Apple get into that space, Windows will always dominate the corporate market.

Worst thing was after XP, the Windows Control Panel was displayed in groups which made everything hard to find, or you had the option to display by icons which sorts everything into columns. This would be great except instead of ordering in alphabetical order down the column it displays across, so that when you resize the window everything moves around. The human eye is used to scanning down a list in order, not across. Whoever decided this was the best way needs to be fired.

European cars are opposite to Japanese. Here in Australia most of our cars are Japanese or European so we learn to deal with both.

Win2012 is designed to run in Core mode and Administered remotely with Powershell. All the GUI fluff is just to keep the backward compatibility/common interface crowd happy.

It wasn't for no reason. It was an attempted demonstration that not too long ago, white men thought they were the only people that counted. Just like how women were treated like second class humans, so were ethnic minorities. If it sounds racist, it's because those times were racist. That was exactly the point I was trying to make.

Nomadic tribes still have superfluous versions of luxury such as colourful jewellery, makeup or feathers. All worthless but their scarcity make the owner feel like they has something over their peers.

And when was luxury ever not like this?

You might have everything *you* need, but the the other 7 billion people out there might not necessarily have the same needs as you. Me for example, I like having a touch screen tablet for the train, then a USB connection to a docking station with dual 24" screens and full PC capability in the office. Even the Apple fanboys in our workplace have traded their iPads for Macbooks because the iPad is mostly useless for most people in a productivity setting.

Are these the same people that recommend timber volume knobs, and $1000 speaker cables? Bose make decent products, somewhere above consumer crap but below high end like Rotel, KEF, Cambridge etc Much like Apple really, it is expensive but it is half decent. Beats however is just crap...

I'm old enough to remember when he/his/him was ok to use in a sentence, and that is not how I remember it. Back in the day men did everything, so naturally he/his/him would be used with verbs. As non-white males became empowered, it no longer made sense to imply only men were doing things. We've moved on since those days and our language reflects that progress.

Actually, I would've thought it quite simple to add an Ice fee to the ticket price and just give out ice for free during the event. Ice supplier still gets paid, and the illusion of free ice keeps everyone happy.

I just came here to figure out what the hell this story was about only to find everyone else is in the same boat (pun not intended)...

Mr Asimov seemed to only be aware of 50% of the population...

I agree, freedom from the fear of being shot at any given time. I think you've confused freedom with self-interest. It's ok it's a common mistake in the US, you throw that word around like some sort of immunity device to do whatever you feel like doing. Probably to do with your previous administration and the media brain-washing that is so prevalent in your country. AMERICA Fuck Yeah! Coming again to save the mother fucking day yeah!