You can use Rain-X and have it wear off after a week, or one of the many various hydrophobic coatings-in-a-can and have it last maybe a month, right now.

If I rode a motorcycle I'd put it on the visor, that actually seems practical.

I've been using miniget, but it has no features other than being small and downloading torrents. It is really small, though.

This is only one step off the reservation. If Firefox gets decrapified and released as 64 bit then I'll step right back across the line. I'm running Pale Moon now, but the whole point of doing so is that it's still Firefox.

Wait, IE has gotten less crappy with each release, but Microsoft has decided that it's reached its lea of crap, and so they're delivering a new browser with their new Windows. That seems like IE just fell off the opposite trajectory.

Since I have an nVidia card, I'm really not having any problems. I recently upgraded from a 450GTS OC to a 750 Ti (per Slashdot groupthink) and continue to not have problems there.

The fact that you haven't heard of lubuntu or xubuntu shows that you're an ignoranus who should shut his cakehole.

I've been a user since Dapper Drake. Later, gator.

Before people inside Microsoft said that, other people inside Microsoft said the opposite. But good luck finding that reference now, because of all the people crowing triumphantly about the particular reference that you cited.

Which hilariously hasn't really panned out for them. I use Chrome and Firefox side by side on Windows and Linux (Pale Moon x64 on Windows, actually) and the only websites which are more reliable in Chrome are gmail and G+, and the latter of those still isn't very good. In spite of running G+ in Google's browser, their interface still takes longer than eternity to load and it still jumps around like crazy. And now that Chrome is approaching Firefox levels of functionality, guess what? It's just as heavy as Firefox, maybe even more bloated.

That's easy enough to build in $CMS_OF_YOUR_CHOICE, you can literally get it by installing Drupal and some modules and enabling them. (start with views, date, and calendar.) You're going to need some online storage someplace for your files anyway, getting it with web hosting doesn't really cost more.

To be fair, Metro isn't actually gone. It's still a big part of Windows 10. You can even still enable the AOL start screen if for some reason you want to do that. So it's going to continue to rear its freakish head periodically for the next while.

Presumably, you'll either use a gamepad or you'll connect a keyboard and mouse, like you can with Surface or Android or perhaps iOS for all I know, although I'd guess not and I'm too lazy to look it up.

If you were a shareholder, and did your homework, you would know that the Xbox already runs Windows. The original Xbox OS was derived from Windows 2000, the Xbox 360 OS was derived from the original Xbox OS, and the Xbox 180 OS was derived from the Xbox 360 OS.

It will, kind of, with streaming. The apps which are too big to run on your phone can be streamed.

What killed Sun wasn't just aimless dicking around, it was the endless cycle of purchasing companies that had stuff they were missing, then laying off all of the top-paid employees — the ones who understood the products they'd just bought. Then they failed at an iteration of their Ultrasparc processor, it took them so long that by the time it came to market it would have been old and slow, so they skipped it. They never recovered in the land of single-thread performance, instead optimizing for the kind of workload which was already at the time increasingly being handled by cheap x86 clusters. This was an obvious road to destruction, and many of us pointed this out at the time, not that anyone expected Sun to listen to the people in the trenches by that time when they had proven conclusively that they were interested in no such thing.

Solaris provided only two innovative features probably ever: containers and ZFS. Both were too little too late to save Sun, and ZFS got open-sourced anyway, eliminating any potential competitive advantage.

Contracting it isn't the biggest problem. Paying bottom dollar is. That means that you don't get the best people. Paying people more means they're less motivated to engage in profitable hijinks when someone asks them to plug something into your network, or photograph your documents. That's because happiness stops increasing dramatically with money after you reach middle class. Once your needs are met, bribery is less effective. Obviously not ineffective, of course. That's where loyalty used to come in. Problem is, corporations don't treat you with any, but they still need it from you. Solution? Treat employees like humans and pay them enough to live on.