Thanks. The Verge says that

Update, June 21st 9:45AM: Microsoft has updated its blog post today and removed references to "remain activated." The stealthy edit isn't acknowledged, and we've reached out to the company for comment.

Do you have any updates since then?

I have attached the refund $0 with this post. Enjoy.

Ever heard of the word "tablet"? Touchscreen? Battery? Sensors for light, acceleration, GPS?

You don't even specify which exact "position" you are asking about from the GP post, and you are calling the other person lazy?

Heard about pots, kettles and tendencies to absorb visible electromagnetic radiation?

I don't understand the American view about left and right, so, my honest question for you is - do you call him a right winger ? He doesn't seem like that to me, or as general definition of "right".

Toward the end of the rant, he even mentions that probably government getting into the business of educating (at least guaranteeing it) might be a good thing. The idea he expresses against guaranteeing loans by governments is also not much of a right wing attitude - since guaranteeing loans is socializing the loss and privatizing the profit. Right wing nuts typically love such loan guarantees.

In civilized countries, education due to having huge positive externalities, is government subsidized. Spending a billion dollars to subsidize education gets a trillion dollar returns - but 20,000 dollars spent to subsidize every single student doesn't necessarily make him earn 20 million.

Government is the one entity that can and should take the burden of all financial expenditures of this nature. But that is too "communist" for Americans so they enjoy the loans.

Government, if anything, guarantee the loans. In other words, only the losses are socialized, profits are all privatized into universities and banks.

Yes, but you didn't address the fundamental difference between ways of enjoying movies/shows and music. It is drastically different. How?

When one hears a piece of music for the second time, they like it MORE than they liked it for the first time. The degree of enjoyment grows for a while - longer for some music, less for some other. It is easy to find music for me which keeps increasingly pleasant for five times of concentrated listen sessions. Many other people are like this, at least for the genres I am interested in.

When you "discover" a new genre, the "learning curve" is even steeper. I have hated music of some genres which in a few months became the only genre I listened to for a while. With this steeper learning curve, comes much more happiness too. When I develop the taste for a new genre of music (happened only thrice in my life), for a while, people can tell I am happy just by talking to me on phone, or meeting me briefly. Of course it fades then.

Movies/shows are decidedly NOT like that for many many people. At most, most people can enjoy a movie twice within a few days - and that is a different enjoyment when it is watched the second time.

When you have a monopoly on idiots, you can afford to choose a few people and not do them favours. Better if those people represent a minority, unpopular view. E.g. many Sikhs in India are patriotic, and only a vanishingly miniscule minority are separatist like this Facebook page advocates.

Ask the government.

Yeah. If you want favours from me, you have to play by my rules. News at eleven.

Sure, one stop access to TLAs. What's not to love?

Wrong. Writer is not popular because no one knows him. But the writer is good. Now the politician takes the song, and STILL no one knows the writer. The song becomes popular because of the exposure given by the politician.

There will be no possibility of the writer's fans in this case as you can understand.

I never said getting "complicated designs" from brainstorming sessions is easy. I used neither of these words, nor any implication which indirectly means this. What makes you invoke this straw man?

You talked about "working together", so my post was directed at one of the types of working together.

Working with people in different continents means brainstorming with them too. That means 10 people will have different pieces of information, 10 will have ideas based on them. A single person can "plan" ahead only as much as his own information. This being 10% of the total information, ideas generated by himself would need to be seriously modified even if useful by themselves. This modification needs to be communicated fast and effectively - even while being bombarded by 9 others giving extra information and giving their own original and modified ideas.

The above might seem more chaotic than it needs to be, but it is definitely something for which "planning" gets dwarfed.

With 10 people in the same room, an effective brainstorming session can be produced. Something about the virtual central shared whiteboard hampers it.

Is there any way you like to highlight things? Do you see code better when different fonts / styles are used for different types of texts in the code? Underline / bold etc.?

About bad "ls" colour schemes, I have myself used "echo *" as a more readable alternative to "ls". Of course, you could change "ls" colour scheme or "ls --color=never"