Except, of course, that pirated music comes in lossless formats or at least in higher bitrates than what Amazon is giving you here.

Uh, not that I'd know. A friend told me.

Where's +1, Sarcasm when you need it?

I was looking through the full list of new features yesterday for some reason to upgrade (I don't use iCloud, I already have Steam, and I'm not Chinese) and found awesome revolutionary new features like "We're in the process of getting FIPS-140 certification" and "Chess now knows about Game Center".

I've tried to read that three times now, and I keep reading it as US Hipsters.

1. Get hardware from HTC
2. Throw Android on it
3. Re-brand everything and/or replace it with your versions
4. ???
5. PROFIT!

Seriously; look at the new MacBook Pro "Retina", it's entirely disposable. You can't upgrade or replace the RAM, disk or battery, the three things you'd need to touch in a laptop to keep using it for more than a couple of years.

I've been buying Mac laptops since the iBook G4, but if this is the new normal, forget it. Not looking forward to trying to find a decent PC laptop though, everyone seems to have ten billion slightly different and incomprehensibly named models...

My Time Capsule recently died (awesome thermal design there Apple) and I've been looking for a replacement WAP.

Thanks Cisco, you just eliminated about a million slightly different models for me. My pre-Cisco WRT54G has been a trooper though, that's for sure... it's slow for wireless these days, but it's still a great router (running a Tomato hacked up to do IPv6).

Probably for buying out and shutting down a potential competitor?

Or maybe they've got good Mac integration, since MS's Lync support on Mac is sort of half-there (it's basically just Communicator, there's no group support, etc.).

They have a major deep-seated cultural problems where their only morality is getting rich, no matter how much damage they cause or how many people they hurt.

Wait, when did we start talking about MBAs and C-level executives?!

You mean sort of like this?

BlackBerry Mobile Fusion helps make managing mobile devices faster, easier and more organized than ever before. From a single, web-based interface, provision, audit and protect mobile devices, including BlackBerry smartphones, BlackBerry PlayBook tablets and devices that use iOS and Android operating systems. This unified approach helps provide secure mobile access to work email and data in a cost-effective way.

There are a lot of things that dump a ton of crap in C: on Windows, even if you've told them to install somewhere else.

VisualStudio, I'm looking at you.

"Unlimited" was redefined to mean "always connected" quite some time ago, since dial-up was usually limited to some set number of hours per day or month.

Fucking marketing.

Except it's disturbing instead of erotic due to her chicken skin hallucinations.

Making the users change their passwords every 60 days is the reason why people use passwords like that.

On services where you never change your password (most web services) you should definitely use a strong passphrase. But if you're stuck changing it frequently, using a strong passphrase punishes you.

WebGL is a huge security risk; you're basically running any old code, from the Internet, on your GPU. How well do you trust your browser, graphics drivers, etc. to not have bugs?

The thing is, who the hell cares?

The point of a game is to be fun, and that's what Minecraft is. Unless you're writing an engine that you'll be reusing and/or licensing, "efficiency" is largely irrelevant.