No. Well, you're right about the British actions, as technically speaking the shot heard round the world was fired in defence of the colonists keeping their ammo and powder. You are wrong about the rest. There were plenty if anti-black and anti-poor gun control laws passed post Civil War, the most famous probably being the New York Sullivan Act.
I've never seen either a Mac or a Linux box suffer from 'decay'. The box will work progressively slower compared to newer, faster systems which you may get used to eg. at your job but I've never seen the box slow down any measurable amount (unless of course, the hard drive is getting close to full etc). Windows on the other hand simply slows down due to updates and antivirus getting heavier and heavier, Windows machines will also fill their own hard drives (I manage some boxes that have been installed when XP first came out, even with minimal user data, the machine has gotten cleaned up multiple times due to a full hard drive (mainly logs, updates and system restore data)
Or, just join the rest of us in 2014, get an SSD and don't worry about it.
Windows itself takes the majority of the 32 GB SSD that comes with a Windows 8.1 tablet such as a Transformer Book, Aspire Switch, or older Surface Pro. I imagine that most people don't want to have to manually shuffle data between such a small internal SSD and an external HDD.
Your server isn't getting games installed on it, which put all kinds of settings in the registry, then removed later when the game is old and tired, leaving behind cruft (including DRM bullsit) in the registry.
You'd be surprised at how many games have the same digital restrictions management BS in the game's dedicated server app that they have on the client.
and everything will be iOS/Android
Good luck running Visual Studio or Xcode on one of those. But I will grant that Android has AIDE, which might sub for Eclipse in a pinch.
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your email app from being able to see any office files.
When you drag from the file manager or Office to your e-mail program, the operating system would make a read-only view of the file in the e-mail program's space.
no more flash , java , quicktime and more on the web.
Three words: good fcuking riddance.
adobe apps can't work with each other
Having been published under the same private key (that of Adobe Systems) would let them run in the same sandbox, if the model you envision is anything like the model of Android.
no more visual pinball working with pinmame (at least both are open source and can have both join to one app)
They could join through more structured data sharing mechanisms, such as local sockets set up by firing an intent.
IDE / codeing apps may be come hard to do.
Console gamers and iOS fans would say "good riddance". But they could work the same way AIDE does on Android.
No more NV or ATI driver apps
Again, having been published under the same private key (that of NVIDIA or AMD) would let them run in the same sandbox.
games can't have mods or map editors.
Console gamers and iOS fans would say "good riddance", as I described in another article, because modding helps cheating. But a mod could be installable through the same share mechanism I mentioned above.
Sprint most certainly will activate a phone not purchased from them, as long as it's a CDMA phone they support
I was under the impression that Sprint supports only the exact makes and models that it sells. If I bought a CDMA2000 phone without carrier branding, do you think Sprint would just sell me a CSIM to plug in?
For those of the same ideology, you'll hear stuff about blaming "the government", "the bureaucracy" / agency in question, or the individual announcing the policy - Holder in the case.
Yes, but Obama as the head of the executive branch is Holder's boss, and picked the guy out for the job. This is why it's a cop-out to avoid blaming Obama for his henchmen's actions, just like it was a cop-out to avoid blaming Bush for the actions of Ashcroft and friends.
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