Yes and no. Would Elite: Dangerous come out if it didn't get that amount of funding? The game is already turning out to be amazing and they didn't have anything other than some video interviews to start with when they made their Kickstarter campaign. There's a risk to investment, take a chance.

A lot of the industry wouldn't exist if people didn't take risks. A lot of ideas can be pretty expensive and out of reach for a single person to make possible, even to demo or make a mockup. This risk aversion in the US (especially) right now is turning the industry backwards and killing us, when we need more investment in the industry. Yeah, there maybe con-artists and/or cancellation because of lack of funds, but that's what risk is about.

Why are you blaming Microsoft for this? This is the manufacturer of the products fault for not outlining their terms to Microsoft on how to resolve this. Microsoft is just selling a product that the manufacturers wanted with the terms they agreed too. If anyone is at fault, blame the manufacturer for these idiotic practices and their lack of foresight of the problem. A lot of these manufacturers will direct you straight to Microsoft and wipe their hands clean from any fault and everyone just blames Microsoft for this, this is the wrong attitude to have and we're letting these manufacturers get away with it. The so called "Microsoft Tax" is something these guys created themselves and you and me for accepting it. No one is forcing these manufacturers to bundle Windows, but they do it anyways to have a "complete" product.

It would just force me not to register for even more websites. I'm getting sick and tired of having to register everywhere to even use a website. What makes people think I'm going to be encouraged to register to a site I want to use for a day and have it email spam me to change my password all the time? I'm already at the point of just using the same password for every non-important website I go to because I really don't care if someone cracks it and uses it to post obscenities on some website I don't really care about.

Not just software, machines as well. Gone are the days where we needed 50,000 people working in a manufacturing plant. Machines have replaced the vast majority of those jobs or it's been outsourced to Asia for the low skilled labor job such as the textile industry, which is changing soon as well with robotics.

Blame your politicians for creating such a situation where we're forced to try other methods of doing business which are less costly. Poor or rich, doesn't matter, we all make the same decisions regarding costs.

How do we know he's on vacation? My guys always say I'm on vacation when I'm not in the office.

Unfortunately, non-business owners will never understand. They think if we're not sitting in our office, that we're on vacation or sitting at home having a blast watching movies and playing games. Then when I come back from my business trip, I have to listen to these people complain about their long 8 hour work day. I work non-stop everyday trying to keep the business running, finding clients, answering late night phone calls and you've pretty much summed up all my employees. When one of my employees makes a mistake, it's me who has to fix it, mistakes that could be costly to the company. They all think I'm getting massive profits for myself and sailing on a yacht on the high seas with porn stars.

As a business owner, I work longer hours than all my employees. They always complain about their 8 hour work day when I'm sitting in the office every day for more than 14 hours a day working to get clients for all of them to even have a job.

Their biggest mistake is shunning their supporters and laughing at them as if they don't know anything. Gnome 3 could have been more successful, but instead they're forcing it down our throats and calling us all idiots for not using it.

Meanwhile, we still have a lot of applications that depend on Gnome. Whether or not Gnome goes bunk, we're all dealing with the pain of being forced to use Gnome one way or another.

That plant in Gahanna was always about cost cutting. I don't know what they tell you in that IT department over there, considering what a disaster Niagara has with IT, that doesn't surprise me.

Why? A lot of software then was just enough and is still enough to run today for everyone. Why do I need the cloud to share data with? Why do I need all these gimmicks that I don't even use? I still see a lot of businesses running Windows XP or even DOS for their database. A lot of machine manufacturers still run everything on Windows XP because it's an expensive transition to move to Windows 7 or Windows 8, rewriting their manuals, redoing all their code for their machines, and most of them can't because companies like Siemens refuse to let you use most of their software on anything but Windows XP.

So it's not as easy as you think to transition away from Windows XP knowing that it's going to cost a fortune to try to get your old software to work on Windows 7 or Windows 8 and Microsoft offers no real solution for it.

Don't forget to install McAfee bundled with your flash update! Because that will help you!

No, but how many of those critical security flaws allows an attacker to remote control my machine? In this day and age, this shouldn't be happening considering with what we know now, yet it does and the same problems still exist today as it did 10-15 years ago.

Please provide me a list of alternatives then. There's nothing that even comes close to what Skype does, not even any opensource ones. In the mean time, I can always find anyone I need to talk to on Skype.