Isn't this what hot spares are for?

Most VMs do this. I believe .NET does it too. I won't pretend to understand the reasoning behind it. Why not set the limit for the VM at the process limit of the OS? (2GB or 3GB with LAA on 32-bit Windows, 8TB for 64-bit)

Usually the store will want to be compensated for the time the copy is not available. This is called rental. In the case of copying on the internet, the original copy is still available at all times.

I'm reporting my experience with the open source Radeon drivers. And compositing has next to no noticeable impact on Windows, so my guess is it's nVidia's fault here.

This is the first I've heard that a decent compositing window manager (ie. not early Compiz builds) actually significantly affecting 3D fps. Windows has used a compositing windows manager since Vista (dwm) and, if anything, FPS got better for windowed apps, and vsync is "free". The worst I've ever seen compositing affect fps (in non-alpha Compiz, GNOME3 or Unity) is in the single digits.

Windows 8 includes the free MSE antivirus in Windows Defender now, so they don't need to

Last I checked, the XBox360 and the PS3 use PowerPC CPUs too. The XBox360 has a triple-core PowerPC CPU and the PS3's CPU is a single PowerPC core (PPE) with 7 SPEs.

IIRC, it's a fork of Cyanogenmod, and (the non-Android part of) CM is also GPL, so they'd have to also distribute the modifications to CM. This, I think, is the larger infringement that people are annoyed about?

Really?

So the new file transfer dialogs and task manager, multi-monitor taskbars, EAP support for WiFi, etc. are available out of the box in Windows 7? Please, tell me how.

Would it be though? According to a study by Harvard and Google, there are around 1 million words in the english language. 10^24 possible combinations for a four-word password. Not sure that a brute force dictionary attack would be plausible on that search space.

Really? I've been running the game in a 1080p window, switching to other windows periodically for IM chat or web pages and I've never seen it crash from the ALT-TAB. And I'm running it on relatively ancient hardware too (Radeon 3870 X2, Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM). Are you sure it's not a driver issue?

Not on Windows RT. And sideloading on Windowst RT is only allowed for enterprise and developers (for the specific purpose of testing their own apps).

That's true, but most people would agree that TWM is horrendously ugly.

I thought that modern linux toolkits (GTK and Qt) and windows managers (eg. kwin and metacity) render windows entirely offscreen and just tell X to draw the resulting pixmap. Remote X just sends that bitmap over the network to the remote host. There seem to be little efficiency to be gained by using remote X over VNC in this case

You need to have a command line to start with. If you're starting from nothing, opening a VNC session is not really harder than opening an SSH session.