Doesn't cause a problem for Android users. Are iOS users just to ignorant to select decent software? Do they need Apple to hold their hand and tell them the stove is hot?

Own up to your company's bad decisions, bite the bullet, and STOP USING PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE!!!

Seriously, you people who complain about all your own bad decisions are really getting on my nerves. Java was a bad idea 10 years ago even without the time restriction. Why? Because they throw in a time restriction whenever the fuck they want. Your company was stupid enough to be duped.

If part of what you're selling is the network effect of your product, then this very well may be a time when "crippling" a feature makes the product better.

Windows has an API for hooking into file system events. If iTunes is scanning the hard drive except on startup, then it's because Apple has shitty engineers. Same with USB. Why don't Windows focused apps that do the same thing have no performance problem?

I'm a Linux/Android user, but you just seem like an Apple fanboy.

Perhaps. But they couldn't really cash out all their coins at a reasonable rate. The market cap is 21 million, so in order to dump anywhere near 5 million, you'd have to space it out to not crash the market before you can sell.

Microsoft doesn't give a shit about the PC market. They need to make inroads on smartphones and tablets. The Windows 8 works-like-touch decision is so that they can acclimate as many dupes as possible into the MS way so that when they get a smartphone, they're more likely to choose Windows.

MS sells Office. It's what they do. It's the only thing they know how to do. Their entire business is built upon it. If they can't get people to use Office on their phones, they are doomed.

I don't know how fractional reserve banking would ever apply to BTC, but bitcoins can be broken up down to 0.00000001 BTC (sometimes known as a Satoshi). So, this isn't really much of a problem.

The equivalent divisible size in USD would be $2.1 trillion. This may be a bit small someday, but that day is a long way off. There is only $1.18 trillion in circulation today.

I think technically it can also refer to silicon when it involved in compounds that function analogously to carbon-based organic chemistry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organosilicon

There are a few others as well, like phosphorous and sulfur.

I think you're forgetting the primary concern with DDT was birth defects, not cancer. Primarily in animal populations. ...and the fact that insects were becoming resistant to it anyway, in some cases.

http://www.skinit.com/