Because, it ain't gonna be free. Free updates for 1 or 2 years and then you need to be on a subscription to get updates. At that point people will chuck it. Smart phones with bluetooth keyboards and hdmi output will be enough for most people for their home computing needs.

There is future for Windows. Really?

The power balance has shifted a lot, The Personal Computer is morphing into Corporate Computer. People buying with their own money are now going towards smartphones, tablets, chromebook like light platforms. Even corporations are using tablets in a big way. The servers have gone to Linux. Windows is being forced to inter-operate with other devices without having the advantage of being the de-facto monopoly.

When corporations are the only customers, they are able to extract better deals from Windows. They might think going to this continuous update and subscription model will bring more money. But it will only drive personal buyers away and make Microsoft more dependent on corporate customers than ever.

Till about couple of years ago, K-cup was a patented property of Green Mountain. So everyone paid their fees to stamp "compatible" with Keurig on their pods. The patent has expired and others can manufacture K-cup compatible machines, without paying royalties to Green Mountain. To protect their turf they tried this dumb idea. Lots of people shrank from buying the 2.0 because the word spread, "it will work only with Green mountain pods".

What makes this really a stupid move was that, there was no huge rush to make knock off copies of keurig machines. Very few machine makers went there. But the real dough for Green mountain was in the license fees paid by everyone making K cups. They stopped paying it and more players have entered the pod business.

The cell phone GPS antennae are tiny they catch the signal from the satellite and also many reflections. These reflections confuse the processor trying to fix the distance between itself and the satellite. They seem to have developed some signal processing algorithm that would remove these reflections. The article is skimpy on details.

It works only for white people.

Why are these girls complaining? The club book of their arch enemy, whose club's express purpose is to exclude these girls, has been revealed.. And neither Club Dictator-for-life nor the Club President and the First Tiger complained about it.

Extremely popular, sold out at the release, priced at eye popping 75K to 100K a piece. And .... the company *lost* money! If it is losing 40 million a quarter selling 11000 cars, it works out to 3600$ per car.

Only difference is the guys camping out the day before release at the mall entrances are millionaires ;-)

So this is just a sys-admin tool. Not a general purpose scripting language. Well, I am fine with cygwin + bash and will not bother about this powershell till it comes with a compelling feature that is cross platform.

They are just analyzing mostly comments, not code. Dijkstra gave the prescient warning ages ago: "Always debug the code, not the comment".

C coders know when they are using ugly hacks and would take a moment to comment it or name the function with the term ugly hack. They realize it is not elegant and make a note so that future developers do not think it is a reference implementation worthy of replication and emulation. It is basically "this is probably not worth copy/paste, do a fresh implementation".

Other language coders might be using these ugly hacks with pride not knowing anything better.

I was forced to move to a windows box ages ago by the company policy. Have been using cygwin, cygwin-X server and bash scripts extensively. So much so many of my colleagues think I am using a linux desktop. So getting something that runs natively in Windows looks attractive. But if I am going to learn something new, what advantages this powershell has that python does not? Cygwin + bash is cross platform enough for me to switch between ssh windows in linux boxes and my windows desktop. The run test suites I got an intern to whip up a python script.

What does powershell has that python or perl does not have?

You are so out of date. We are drowning in excess capital. There are more than 2 trillion dollars of cash sloshing around the capital markets, looking for something to invest, anything to invest in. This is the time to play tough with the businesses who have been coddled for too long by people like you. These are our rules to play in our market. Don't like it? Fine, get out of my country.

The only place left are African tinpot dictatorships. Where else can they go? All we have to be is to be a *little* bit more supportive than them. We don't have to compromise labor safety or environmental regulation, nor do we have to pay them an arm and a leg. It is all comparative. Are we more supportive than countries with similar market size and infrastructure? That is enough, anything more is wasted.

Why the hell the government should not change the rule arbitrarily? By the same argument, if the government changes the income tax to 95% from next year, I have no recourse other than paying it. Why should the corporation be exempt? Changing any law at any time is the right of the government. If it adversely affects you, tough luck. Take your marbles and go home.

There are tons of unenforced traffic laws. Just enforce them to take care of these behemoths.

All horseless carriages must be preceded by a flagman on foot, it shall come to a full and complete stop at every cross road, ring a bell, set off a fire cracker before proceeding further. Such horseless carriages should also have a fake horse head/neck mounted so as not to frighten horses.

It is just not these indecipherable codes on the bills. I typically get explanation-of-benefits that runs like, "X-Ray radiology 800$, Paid by insurance company 100$, discount to insurance 685$, you owe them 15$". Any one without an insurance will be billed 800$. No body would pay such an insane bill. They will sell it to some debt collector at some 20 cents a dollar. The bill collector would hound the patient, add all sorts of fees and penalties and dun payments. About two thirds of the bankruptcies in USA are due to medical costs. If the lab billed honestly and charged 150$ for uninsured, 100$+15$ copay for insured, things will not spin out of control this badly.

Another thing is so many different people bill you and you have no idea. My wife had a surgery and we have bills rolling in for some four months after the procedure. Random doctors, labs, hospital departments, practices are billing us. For things that you don't understand at all. For things like rent for corridor space the gurney was parked on before entering the Operating room. They would glorify the corridor space as pre-op waiting area or some such jazzed up name. This on top of a per day rent for being inside the hospital.

The next step is going to be every doctor carrying an RFID detector and every patient tagged with an RFID tag. The machine will record all the patients the doctor passed by in the corridor and he/she can bill them all for looking at them.