In other words, Unix philosophy for the win :)

Although Apple has never officially acknowledged issues surrounding Yosemite and Wi-Fi connectivity, the company is clearly aware of the problem: Leading off the improvements offered in the update 10.10.2 update released Tuesday was 'resolves an issue that might cause Wi-Fi to disconnect,' according to the release notes.

So basically, you said that Apple haven't acknowledged the problem, then quoted them acknowledging the problem?

One great thing about Outlook is the ability to recall mails

????. One idiotic thing about Outlook is it gives non-technical cow-orkers the illusion that you can recall mails. Personally I get a bit sick of my mailbox being full of duplicate emails and recall notices because someone wanted to fix a trivial spelling mistake.

Yeah, as I understood it, the objection is that it forces farmers to buy seeds yearly. That's fine in a first world economy, but subsistence farmers need to be able to re-seed with their own crop yield. Many of them may never see enough cash to buy seeds in the first place, but there was concern about "first crop is free!" type promotions.

I don't know how realistic the concerns were in this particular case, but the history of companies like Nestle and their milk formula scheme is enough to give pause to a lot of people.

It is broke though. Look at the SendFile bug, for example. It's been there for years, it bites a tonne of people who try to virtualise web servers, and there has been seemingly no attempt whatsoever to fix it. Its kernel drivers on OS X and Linux aren't particularly stable either.

It sounds like your problem is with the quality of the new equilibrium, not with the principle.

The best kind of correct is technically correct!

I see what you did there.

Governor Huey released GM mosquitoes which were allergic to human blood, which meant after a generation or two, they had adapted to biting everything but humans..

But you can get a long way with a stolen card and PayWave before someone notices, what with it's $100 limit per transaction and (usually) lengthy delays before said transactions appear on statements.

We did consider a model where the GPU is hanging on the side off a Thunderbolt cable, but our test group preferred the integrated one.

I still wonder if we made the right choice, though -- the bag-on-the-side would really have differentiated our product from the rest.

More like a Mackbook - not exactly carry-on luggage for your daily commute.