It's because it's replaced by the shell that rm doesn't have to understand it. That's why the DOS design was stupid.

Farm raising fish significantly hurts wild populations of lots of other species since we only raise carnivorous fish. So now instead of fishing 2 kg of fish for 1 kg marketed, we fish 10 kg to feed the fish farms.

The nice bit being that we can now fish those "other" species that have little market value or that aren't on the brink of extinction yet. It took some time but we'll finally manage to empty the oceans. Just a few more decades and we'll be able to bathe in peace.

Well, I don't use an iPhone, but if my i-neken had more ads, I, uh, well, I'd certainly have another one !

Current machines (with the possible exception of so called "netbooks") are so insanely fast that the performance impact of a virtualised environment doesn't matter much save for a few very specific applications : games, graphic processing, etc. Not what typical users require. And there are ways to lower the impact when running a high requirement application. It will require a bit more RAM (if even that), but current machines are certainly adequate CPU-wise.

This is IMO one potential direction that OS architectures may have to follow in order to become more resilient in the face of a growing number of threats. I think it would be much more manageable for the average user than something like SELinux. The old permission system isn't in itself sufficient because users cannot be trusted and may "voluntarily" allow malicious applications. So sandboxing everything is reasonable.

She still ought to check what the limit is for an abortion, maybe it's no too late over there.

Not "other people". It's about killing "the enemy". And we know the enemy is stupid, since it believes we're the enemy (apologies to P.D.). So really they're doing everybody a favour.

So you're saying we shouldn't follow the military's example and use ROT26 just because nobody else is using else, thus cunningly combining cryptography and obscurity ?

Same here, for me Steam has been the best thing since home sanitation. I can play on several machines (not at the same time, granted), I don't have to fish for disks, I no longer have boxes from 15 year old games taking space (I *could* sell them for a couple euros, but it's hardly worth the hassle) and they're for the most (except for ArmA 2 which is a bit special) kept up to date automagically whenever I start Windows.
I now actually hesitate to buy stuff that isn't on Steam.

Then you'll have latency issues playing with beings from other solar systems and you'll probably get kicked from the games. Not to mention radio-telescope rental bills.

Probably not worth the hassle.

The way I see it, a game I'll enjoy will keep me busy for something like 6 to 20 hours (possibly more if there's an online component) given that I'll likely replay some bits. Let's say there's a conservative 10 hours of entertainment in it for 50 € (typical retail price over here). Going to see a film costs 10 €. Which is the same hourly price (assuming a two hour film). Except that the better the game, the cheaper it gets (by the hour).

So bad games are expensive, good ones are cheap.

They certainly pushed game naming to its limits at least.

But you get to be Jobs's serf, which apparently changes everything.

You could always install links which works on pretty much anything or remove MacOS and install Linux which does have modern browsers.

Only in the US could this... thing... be called whipped cream. Twinkies are a particularly vile type of industrial junk food which is probably why they're so popular.
People who have never seen them should count their blessings.

So, if I set up my Alienware laptop to flash its bits and pieces on certain occasions (which it can apparently do through its lighting driver in Windows), will Microsoft feel compelled to sue Dell since the whole laptop cold be seen as a game controller of sorts ?

Or do I have to wait for a Linux driver to come out so they can sue the Linux foundation (or Linus, or SCO, or whoever) ?