Are you sure? If you're always using the same browser, with the same addons and extensions installed, same local machine config details being shared... you could have been fingerprinted. It's not 100% accurate, but the more times they see you the more times they can guess your're the same person. Sure, they don't have your email, but they can still stitch together multiple sessions information.

Troll much? It's not exactly a best seller, but you can hardly claim no one buys them.

You are right. It's really hard to see this ever taking off in the US when there is still a debate of seat belts... seat belts for crying out loud. It's like you are 30 years behind the rest of the world in terms of car safety.

^ This You are using SLI but living with the XP 3gb 32bit memory cap??? Remember, the more GPU Ram you have, the less address space for your regular Ram... and you have 2 GPU's with ram.

Same in FF3.6, only no right clicking either so no cut and paste.

Of course some Businesses opt to keep themselves on IE6 even with XP, so tis a bit of a moot point. I'm looking at you Intel and several other huge multinationals.

But... MS doesn't have an "Xbox" division... you are thinking of the Entertainment and Devices Division. And one of the few areas making money in MS... oh i guess Windows, Office, Exchange and all the serve tools don't count.

If by different Code Base, you mean changed, then "well duh!" If you mean completly distinct, then what are you smoking. Why in gods name would they drop so much development effort into WP7 only to throw it out the window in the next revision

8800GTX is probably a bad example. 1 year ago it was still in the top range, as Nvidia perfected the business process of releasing the same damn card under a new name again and again.

Because no one tries to spam Domains with emails by just guessing at common local parts to the email address.

True but how many games target the latest iPhone solely as opposed to iOS, which could be many kinds of devices. So 1 year from release, iPhone6 running iOS 6.0.1 rivals the NGP/PSP2 for raw graphics. What about all those running the 3GS on iOS 4? I'd say they have a year and a half, maybe 2 years to get a lead.

Iceland of course let its banks fail... but it saved the domestic banking sector by breaking up the banks into International and Domestic banks. It then let the International banks go bankrupt, with their foreign debts financed by foreign investors who lost out. The Irish banks have huge domestic debts, financed by international banks. If they go bankrupt then a huge chunk of Ireland is now up for repossesion by foreign banks. The foreign debt of the Irish banks is tiny compared to ludicrious ammount of debt caught up in Irish property. Not saying they shouldn't let the banks go bankrupt... but it would be a bit different then Iceland. At the very least it would take some of the smugness off the German banks when they too get punished for lending recklessly.

I spent most of internship in intel arguing with people hyping larabee as the 2nd coming of jesus that it would never happen... And now i can finally say HAH!

Well your almost right on the original license. In order for the new to cpu's and mostly unheard of Intel to supply its fancy new design chip to IBM, IBM wanted a backup supplier (like the airline industry demands two engine suppliers for airplanes). Intel Contracted AMD and gave them the license. This was grand from 1982 - 1986 ... or from 8088/8086 up to the 286. When the 386 rolled around IBM was more or less gone, and Intel was looking to the Dell and HP style OEM's. It tried to cut AMD but AMD sued AND WON. but it didn't happen until 1994, so how did AMD keep going? While x86 use was in limbo, and Intel weren't sharing AMD reverse engineered the 386, the 486 and even the original Pentium. At this time they managed, with no further help from Intel, to reverse engineer their chips to the point where their CPU's were considered MORE compatible with Intel chipsets then Intel's own (quite and achievement i think) No one knows exactly what was agreed in 1994 when Intel was forced by court order to make an agreement with AMD, but since then AMD hasn't been making drop in replacments for Intel chips but has been using its own chip design requiring its own motherboards. Assuming the Intel - AMD agreement isn't one sided... how is what AMD is doing any different from what Intel is doing with TSMC to produce Atom chips for it (is it just that the current low end Atom has no x86-64 extensions?) That aside... do the same circumstances exist that existed in 1994 that Intel has to, under court order, make an agreement with AMD which allows AMD have a license to x86. I reckon it must. Intel wasn't half the monopoly it is now back then.

I just left an unnamed Well known tech company which... lets just call them Intel for convenience sake. They still use Windows 2000 (and lots of 2k3, but maybe 50% max) for everything from small web servers to nas servers, terminal servers and clustered high usage sql servers. Its a pain in the ass not being able to use Asp.net 3.5 but... it works. I'm sure 2k8 would be a lot easier for some things... but wheres the one feature that everyone can look at and go "yeah, we need that"