Then it's good for eBay that it's business model doesn't depend on buying laws. Even when it was new, it was far less illegal than uber is now in most places.

You don't need the shell of a nearly standard laptop - because buying the motherboard for it means you're dependent on that laptop's manufacturer for driver support. So any advantage of "build your own" is gone right there.

You need a shell for a small form factor non laptop motherboard.

But once uber gets the laws sorted out by spending money, there are other big companies to move in to the same market. Uber doesn't have much uniqueness to last and hence no pricing advantage in the long run.

You have better things to do with your day than sit there like an angry little person and dwell on it. But you don't have better things to do with your day than telling others that you have better things to do with your day than sit there like an angry little person and dwell on it. You also don't have better things to do with your day than falsely proclaim that Lenovo care about people like you because they're taking steps to fix the situation rather than ignoring it. I note that your so proclaiming also doesn't achieve anything.

Then it's not "build your own" anymore.

Even if it were, driving to rent your 3-D printer could easily take longer than it takes to cook your rice, and designing the 3-D model over the bought small motherboard keeping in mind extensibility, cooling, access ports is another task that surpasses rice cooking.

TFS mentions laptops. They are selling more than desktops for a while.

With 3-D printing, equipment list is now longer than just a screwdriver.

Yes, but fixing it will be simpler. Most Linux distribution installations are easier than windows installations. And getting the installer image is easier as it is most prominent in the distribution website rather than obscure as in the case of Microsoft's windows downloads.

What has the end user got to with it? Lenovo is the middle-man, so MS need to change the MMLA (middle man license agreement).

Since laptops are (also) involved, you need machining of the body around your small form factor motherboard. Most experienced machinists wouldn't be able to do a good job in 15 minutes. And the tool list is much longer than a hex driver.

With just a hex driver, the "machining" can easily take a month.

1366x768 is an epidemic that I see affecting every laptop manufacturer. Do you know of any laptop maker that is immune?

2 factors make git a bad choice here :

1. Git encourages merges. Even to someone used to source code version control, the branching and merging in git is a bit too easy for comfort. And it is by design - anyone should be able to completely clone a repository easily, keep rebasing while working, test all changes locally and then merge.

2. Even many so called "MS word experts" are not really experts in branching, diffing, merging files. Excel is even worse. While I don't doubt there are tools Microsoft , and probably even others, provide for making these activities simple. But I haven't come across any experts that are really confident doing it hundreds of times a day.

This coupled with MS Word's insistence on "saving" even cursor position changes makes life even more difficult. I am sure there are solutions to this which probably the experts know - but intermediate proficiency MS Word users typically suffer from this.

fud, as well as strawman. GP didn't say it does everything, GP said it takes over all of system management.

4583 package depend on it. Much much fewer depended on other "event driven alternatives". So you are wrong. http://lkcl.net/reports/removi...

Another strawman. They didn't say there was no need for change. They said "for many if not most an alternative to init was neither needed nor desired".

When we talk premium, typically it is yearly or monthly or any other periodic payment. So no, living less is no reason for smokers to pay less.

Same thing happens when you use functions. Is this a reason to not use functions?

E.g.

activity(){
    if(part1required){
        part1;
    }
}

Here, part1 is under if which is under activity(), so part1 is indented two levels lower than activity(). Later part1 becomes complicated, so we move it out in a function - funcpart1().

activity(){
    if(part1required){
        funcpart1();
    }
}
 
funcpart1(){
    part1;
}

By using functions, part1 has come at just one level under activity(), even though logically it is 2 levels under activity().

By using the functions, flow has changed, and in this new flow part1 is just one level under activity. Similarly, by using goto, flow changes and there is less indentation required in the new flow.

Not necessarily. If the regular usage is to schedule it for launching at optimal time calculated automatically - launching it now is a special case and function name must make it clear.

For any sane definition of null, an uninitialized variable is null.