The US courts have found M$ guilty of abusing its monopoly.
It is a fact.
M$ appealed.
They were condemned in appeal too.

Along the way the world was treated to very damning e-mails, declarations, B Gates memos, etc from inside M$.

Excuse me if I don't find the question 'is M$ abusing its monopoly ?' worthy of debate, such as your post implies.
It is an established fact (findings of law), that did lead to a guilty verdict TWICE.
 

"a pilot's first storm could bring hardening experience or crushing defeat."

The crew was described as very experienced, with the captain having logged 11,000 hours flight time.

Where is the ED-209 tag when you need it ?

Mod parent up !

The Atari ST was usable within 3 seconds of pushing the reset button or the power switch.
It only needed the time to check if the floppy boot sector was executable (it would then run the floppy) before giving you access to the full fledged GUI OS that was the combo TOS/GEM.

Just to clarify :

Nokia acquired TrollTech.

Nokia then decided to license QT under the LGPL, it wasn't a decision made by TrollTech while they were still independent

Which is why you should have bought a display device that doesn't not have a tuner built-in.
Like, for example, a video projector or a video monitor.

If only it could play PS2 games, I would be more tempted to acquire one.
I play in progrssive scan since the DreamCast, and would like to try some of the best games that the PS2 has.

But I'm afraid for Sony that PC-based emulators will get enough power with quad-cores CPU to run PS2 games flawlessly before they manage to provide a back-compatible PS3 again.

I am no entomologist, but didn't ants evolved from wasps/bees ?
Finding new ways of subsisting on land, and keeping the usage of wings only for the reproducive period ? (male and female ants mating in-fly and founding a new colony thereafter)

The remark about sharks and octopods not having evolved in millions of years, compared to all the evolutions witnessed on land, make me wonder if it is caused by the oceans being a more stable environment across the eons than land ?

I mean, look at the coelancanth : living fossil. Do we have anything as ancient on solid ground ?
Or is land intrisincally a much more dynamic/chaotic/subject to wild changes ecosystem ?

The x86 part

Your assertion is valid provided you have infinite precision of your sound pressure measurement.
16bit precision being far from perfection, it is not possible to rule out that a better precision is discernable by human ears.

All I ask for is a chance to verify it.
Reality and facts rule.
I'd like to be able to do a blind test on say, depeche mode 101, in 192kHz/24 vs. standard CD WAV.

Nope. Always striving for the best compromise cost/effectiveness. Instead of buying a pre-amp, I did hook up my sound card directly to my amplifier, and let my PC be my sound hub.

All I want is you to prove it.

Prove it to me that there is no difference between 48kHZ 16 bit and 192kHz 24bits by providing records of bands I do know very well from CD.
As my ears are very well accustomed to those, I will truely be able to notice if I can detect differences or not.

My terratec PC sound card, ROTEL amp and B&W speakers are waiting. Go ahead.

Until then, I will continue to ask artists for releasing High Definition audio versions of their works.

I think the article author meant the complexity involved IF a problem arises when using apt-get install.
A beginner user wouldn't know how to troubleshoot it.

of common sense:

"We have provided all the Norwegian subtitle files and if people want to fansub any of the episodes we're more than happy to let you do that. Please let us know in the comments and we'll link to your translations."

Three cheers for the Norvegians !!!

You should have tried a C64 loading a floppy diskette. Took almost as long as the ATARI loaded a cassette :)