That entirely depends on the company and the seriousness of the defect.

You're even more likely to get ignored by everyone if reporting a defect on an open source project. Mostly they'll expect you to fix it yourself or wait until someone with the appropriate skills takes an interest. And of course usually almost no-one that experiences the bug has the skills and knowledge of the particular project's internals to be able to fix it.

Much of that is down to snobbery. Risk isn't that much higher at 8751st.

After all, how can a gamer be smug about liking a game that "the masses" know how to play?

Careful, that's edging towards #gamergate.

A gamer isn't what a self selected bunch of white middle class young men decide a gamer is. A gamer is simply someone who likes to play games. Even if it's Farmville, Monopoly, or even Twister.

I'm afraid you've just shown you don't know how to play Monopoly. Like any dice game it has a luck element, but there are strategies to employ that mean you can win around 50% of 4 person games. Doubling your chance of a win is not not "almost entirely luck".

For example it's not just children and brain dead people that are unaware of the widely varying probabilities of landing on the different squares. Which groups have worthwhile paybacks, and which do not. And what the optimum number of houses to build is.
Then there's the skill of trading, both negotiation, and knowing what to negotiate for.

You still can't beat Monopoly.

You think that having to say what you've worked on for a day for which you were paid, and what you intend to work on for the next paid day is abuse? Then you are spoilt beyond belief.

As to working hours, if you don't enjoy what you're doing, then go home when you've done your hours for the day. If that's not acceptable where you work, there's plenty of ordinary paying jobs where it is.

You'd lose on the Zuckerberg element of that wager.

http://www.google.co.uk/search...

How many more years do you imagine you'll be relying on a 1980s/90s standard data line? In most of the developed world consumers would be in an uproar of they didn't have more than 1 Mbps (A)DSL. And you're running a business on a dial-up line?

Don't imagine your backwoods experience is any limitation on the majority.

You looking on Wikipedia is convincing nobody.

If you think logic and algebra are advanced subjects then you are just as mathematically challenged as I said. But you clearly don't realise it.

There are few scientists with maths as poor as gweihir.

If the car wasn't built with a supercharger in mind it might not be practical. Charging generates heat, and too much heat causes malfunctions at best and fires at worst.

Yeah. Looks like the second appeared in Mountain Lion, and the default was ticked, even though "Allow updates automatically" wasn't.

So most people who have had "Allow updates automatically" unchecked for years won't have ever seen the newer option.

I'm not complaining. But some people will have room to do so.

As multiple people are reporting, they can, and are as of this update. Your assumption is wrong.

What you assume is incorrect. Automatic updates are not enabled on my Mac, and this update was the first ever that installed all by itself, merely notifying me after it had done so.