Hypothetical situation: Let's say you travel to another country where you don't speak the language.

"I don't speak the language" isn't a Get Out Of Jail Free card. People may make exceptions for you, but those exceptions will only get you so far. You have to make an extraordinary effort to learn the language, or accept that you're going to have to be isolated with others who speak yours.

Social interaction is a lot like that. Some people may make exceptions for you based on your disability, but acting out and then falling back on your disability as an excuse is just going to rub most people the wrong way. I struggle too. I've got ADHD and social anxiety, which makes me seem aloof and distant.

Oh, and that woman who called you "sexist" for opening the door for her? She's got a problem too. I've run into people like that, and they're impenetrable walls.

Interest in space wore off when the glamorous visions of the Space Age wore off, and as a culture we became aware of the banal realities of it.

But kids have started to get interested in space again, thanks to Chris Hadfield's charisma and social media savvy.

We need to *keep* them interested, though.

You can have that if I can have a device that disables all motorcycles within 500m of my house.

Such noisy machines.

"Huh, looks like I accidentally my submission somehow."

Maybe you accidentally your keyboard.

But the minor number should keep going past 10, just to make things difficult for pedants. :)

"OS X 10.11? Where's OS XI? Oh my god I'm going insane!"

You're still whining about them getting rid of that glossy bullshit?

I'm glad everyone's finally gotten away from that '90s/'00s "USE EVERY PHOTOSHOP FILTER" mindset.

"I strongly suspect, with what a spyware-fest Windows 10 has turned out to be, Linux is gonna get a BIG boost in users in the not-too-distant future, once joe-six-pack figures out all of *his* data is now Microsofts... "

The eternal wishful thinking of "The year of Linux on the desktop".

Most people already keep their personal communications in Hotmail or Gmail already, so I don't see too much of a fuss going on. Concerned people will just stick with Windows 7. If anything, Joe Sixpack will pick up a tablet* for his casual consumption once his laptop or desktop becomes too sluggish or dies. Things are going in a simpler direction, rather than more fiddly.

So, unless you want to qualify Android as Linux...

(*I'm not talking about business computing/gaming/enthusiasts, so calm down.)

Ok, I'll preface it with "they started out with the wrong address for the party".

My wife dropped her Lumia 1020, which has a pretty amazing camera, and I had to replace the screen on it.

If "everything possible to remove them from the market" means "not making them anymore", then yes, you're right.

That's not gonna fly. People are social, and expect a camera nowadays.

I was talking to someone who ran a photography store, and >90% of the photos they print these days come from smartphones.

I like having a camera that's not a potato.

I agree. Microsoft got Windows Phone right. The OS is excellent

They were just years late to the party, decided to go home and change their underwear the moment they got to the party (the WP7 vs WP8 fiasco), found out they didn't actually have any friends (app developers) at the party, and they brought a prostitute (Nokia) as their date.

I don't see the sense in using a car as currency. Those things lose 20% of their value the moment you drive them off the lot.

Yup. The current "preview" build, 10240, is the RTM build. For all intents and purposes, Windows 10 is in its final release form.

In any case, given the history of these things, it's inevitable that Microsoft is going to push out an automatic update that massively screws up millions of machines. At the point, the very next update they're going to push out is an update that disables automatic updates.