Wow! Talk about irony! "the mans an idiot" ... One of you certainly is and I'll give you a hint: The idiot has a slashdot account.

He means the local environments PATH variable on an x86 system running Windows.

Perhaps if you read the summary you would know the answer, as the purpose of the driver is explained quite thoroughly there.

You *buy* a license when you click "buy". DOH!

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that most people don't have an external DVD drive that works with their phone or other non-PC systems on which they wish to be able to view content.

There were no phones in the 1800s dipshit.

You seem to have failed at reading comprehension. You would have a point of they said it was a term only used by security experts. What they wrote it's factually accurate. The term "shell" is in fact used by security experts.

You seem to have missed the part where the customer WANTED it in the middle off the room. It doesn't matter what he knows because in the end the spec called for it to be in the middle, poor solution or not.

Cats aren't wrong if they do think that. Of course nobody knows what they think.

I think you are missing the point entirely. There is a later of abstraction between three physical storage media (FLASH device) and the OS. Middleware as it were. The OS has no idea what it is doing and the one thing we know for sure is it isn't doing what the programmers seem to be assuming it is. Indeed different drives have different firmware. Even two drives of the same make and model may have different firmware versions that behave quite differently. The real fix here if there is one would be to increase over-provisioning and use a proper filesystem.

It's funny that you think you are being pedantic, because you are completely wrong. The (going to be come inauguration day) is implied since that is the context of the text in its entirety.

When the country was founded most people were illiterate and uneducated. They also didn't have access to national and global news sources. That is why they created the electoral college system. We have changed in ways the forefathers couldn't possibly plan for and any belief in the idea that they were infallible and that their design works well today are far fetched and misguided at best.

I find the way you just pulled that statistic out of your ass "interesting." Am I doing it?

The B in BASIC stands for "Beginners ". Now that you know that I trust you can figure out for yourself what is wrong with your claim.

... with deep intrepidation.