I'm not sure if China has an assault weapons ban in place for its citizens... but they had a guy stab 23 children... so... these crimes can still happen... just in a different way.

Same goes for those that continue to purchase the sub-$100 Android tablets... they'll get them, be disappointed, then try an Apple iPad ($499+) and go "wow, the iPad is sooooo much better than an Android tablet" just like all the people that go with the free bottom-tier Android phones, then try an iPhone and judge all Android devices accordingly... but back to your point... people are going to compare these $250 laptops with $1250 Macbook's and think that Windows PCs are all junk. I've seen this so many times, people who are not in-the-know, have no clue about the differences in a $250 and $1250 device, and they don't stop to think that there's a reason one is so cheap while the other is not. I have had acquaintances compare netbooks with the Macbook Air as if they were 1:1 and that irks me to no end.

That's pretty good. I've worked with a team of people who couldn't figure it out immediately... I guess your brain works in a Windows 8 way... don't expect many people to buy it ;o)

Totally intuitive... unfortunately, ALT + F4 is one of those "look in order to find it" sequences, that are much harder to find than other shortcuts in the dark.

And the start menu replaced with a full screen version, and buttons replaced with gestures that are meant for touch devices, but which are pretty annoying with a mouse, and a mix of "widget/app" applications with real applications, some of which have both versions, and a very non-intuitive way of closing the non-full-applications apps, where you have to first exit the app, then mouse to the top left corner, drag down, find the app you want to close, then right click on it to close it... but don't mouse too far over or the list disappears and you start over. Lots of cool stuff like that which are being touted as added benefits.

Well, they call the Air Force tech support, which is here in the states, but everyone has this redneck accent so they are terribly hard to understand.

At least Google offers services for FREE. Verizon charges you $100/month to have your data farmed so you can get ads you don't want.

Distill alcohol... there ya go. Takes a chemistry degree to work in a lab where they make liquor... but yes, it takes no degree to work where they make beer.

Dependency hell? You sure you aren't thinking of Redhat/Fedora? I've never had any dependency issues with Ubuntu that I didn't have with Debian, which is to say, I've never run into any... still... if you aren't into the GUI and you don't want to use their daemons or additional features, I can't see why you would pick them over Debian anyway. Oh, that's right. Paid developers which allows for packages to make it into the stable builds sooner so you don't wait 3 years for the version of Apache from 3 years ago to be added to your latest release. I forgot about that.

Are you talking about Microsoft or Apple now? I asked Siri and she was of no help, so I tried to find the answers on Apple's map app and it led me astray.

He's referring to how fresh, ripe vegetables often bruise when being handled more than lightly... so he's using that as proof that the items were not shipped entirely ripe. I can't speak to whether or not that is a viable argument.

Prior art is too confusing and will only slow everyone down, therefore you must throw it out!

Yeah yeah... hehe. Let's just say, it was a murder case, and the main reason most jurors wanted to convict him and slam him with every year they could was because it was shown that he was a repeat marajuana dealer and a general shady character, so it was obvious that even though there was clear evidence that he did have a hand in someone's death, it wasn't absolutely clear that he did not do it by accident. The stubborn guys wanted to hang him basically, the seemingly intelligent leader/foreman thought that it was pretty clear cut that he did it but didn't want to slam him with all the years for each of the items he was accused for, the "followers" as I shall refer to them were basically for whatever the foreman said, and the undecideds wanted to discuss the facts as they were presented to us and hear what everyone thought before making their own decisions. I had to keep returning to the facts because there was a lot of "he's a bad guy, he must be guilty" talk going on, and it was quite out of hand. I can only assume, and somewhat logically conclude from the few juror interviews that have come out so far, that this type of issue was also going on in the Sammy vs. Apple case.

He's referring to the using of sex to get one's way/money/goods I believe. That's why when you get married, you stop getting it... because they already have everything you own. :o)

It's a conflict of interest if the person isn't clearly guilty of murder, but your reason for convicting and sentencing them to jail time is because you are afraid they might be, yes. If you have some reason to be biased against the defendant in a case, so that that may cloud your judgement unfairly, that is the definition of conflict of interest. Conflict of interest is defined as "A situation that has the potential to undermine the impartiality of a person because of the possibility of a clash between the person's self-interest and professional interest or public interest." or some variation of that depending on what source you use... basically, needing the outcome of this trial to be for the plaintiff (Apple) in order to have a stronger case should he need to defend his own patents in the future is exactly what a conflict of interest is.