Apple has always been their fans and not the other way around. Originally Apple's fans were tinkerers and engineers, so Apple was all about that until the MCA, them artists were all about Apple so Apple was an artistic company devoted to making a better experience for the user. Then the damn iPod came along and ruined everything. Suddenly Apple's fans were a bunch of assholes who thought they were superior to everyone else because they all listened to the same awful noise they swore was music. Now it has become so horrible that every time I have to go into an Apple Store I feel like I am in an episode of a new Sartre TV show called "No Exit"

Feel free to browse my user profile and see what a massive fan I used to be of Apple but that was the old Apple. In August I bought a Samsung Series 7 Slate and I have had RTM on it since.

I now know what women who leave abusive relationships must feel like.

Corporations are people.

According to countless research, no one multitasks between 5 apps well. Factually, the human brain can only "multitask" between 2 things with any skill, add more and productivity drops dramatically. Anyone who says otherwise is lying.

  _.-* The More You Google.

Actually, we don't know the answer to that yet either way. In the end it will most likely be up to what a developer does and if MS links the stores together.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/20/windows-phone-8-and-windows-8-share-lots-of-code-nt-kernel/

I am not a Microsoft fan (search my comments) but I am a HUGE Metro/Modern/RT/Windows Store App fan. I agree with MS that the real-world metaphors shoehorned onto computers have limited their usefulness and I LOVE the total embrace of Fitt's Law.

Windows app developers choosing closed source doesn't have anything to do with Microsoft any more than Mac app developers choosing closed source has to do with Apple. Both Microsoft and Apple contribute a large amount to open source projects themselves.

Windows RT runs on x86 and x64 in addition to ARM. ARM has everything to do with energy consumption. Intel is just not getting there with x86/x64. The future is battery powered and frankly, Intel needs the competition of ARM to get them moving even if ARM can't touch raw performance of x86/x64.

If people didn't care so deeply about MS Office there wouldn't be an OpenOffice or an iWork. It's also asinine to insist that only Office keeps people on Windows. Intensely extensive hardware support, Exchange, Active Directory and many other things that other operating systems don't even try to compete with are also MASSIVE factors.

Windows on ARM already had an "ecosystem" it's called Windows. USB has delivered on its promise. Bluetooth has delivered on its promise. This is not Android, iOS world where connecting anything other than a memory card is both frowned upon and difficult/expensive.

I will give you that Windows Phone 7 was a failure by all accounts. I have an HTC Titan that I love and I am crushed that it will not receive proper system software support but I understand why Microsoft did it. There is a level of hardware features that every WP device must have, in both WP7 and 8. This lets Microsoft declare things like taking pictures on Windows Phone is both faster and easier and not mean "just the Nexus Windows Phone". Live tiles blow notifications and most widgets away in my opinion and you can search my posts on XDA under Dragon_76 to see how long and extensively I have used Android (I had a G1 and left Android Phones at Moto Atrix).

Windows 8 is going to make everyone ask why Apple didn't do the same thing with Mac OS/iOS.

Totally different meme.

http://slashdot.org/story/04/11/30/0034259/In-Korea-Email-Is-Only-For-Old-People

And all adulteresses should be forced to wear a scarlet "A"!

Children are not fully-formed adults, we can't treat them as such. They do not have full control over their lives as adults do. If you believe that children should be treated as adults than whatever age you believe that begins they should be allowed to drink, smoke, gamble and vote.

You can't have it both ways.

From Wikipedia:
"The French Revolution (French: Révolution française; 1789–1799), was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France that had a major impact on France and throughout the rest of Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years. French society underwent an epic transformation, as feudal, aristocratic and religious privileges evaporated under a sustained assault from radical left-wing political groups, masses on the streets, and peasants in the countryside. Old ideas about tradition and hierarchy – of monarchy, aristocracy, and religious authority – were abruptly overthrown by new Enlightenment principles of equality, citizenship and inalienable rights."

Now, do you think that the upheaval of the aristocracy was sugar cookies and lemonade for the economy of France? What about all the merchants employed by the Aristocracy? How evil of those revolutionaries to do such a thing to the Aristocracy because it affected merchants!

"The system" is not some magical entity with all the right answers or outcome. It lets people off that are guilty and convicts people who are innocent. Justice is not arbitrary, that's why laws are different in every country, state and city and also why they change so often. If you are looking for "justice" as opposed to "procedure" than you have to admit that Anonymous has just as much chance at justice as the system.

Anonymous is not one person, nor a group in one country. Let's be realistic here. Expecting a citizen of one country to know, follow and respect the laws of another country simply because you think that's the "right thing" is asinine at best.

There's no consensus over how much sleep a person needs and 9 hours is definitely on the excessive side.

As devil's advocate no one says that you are entitled to any specific standard of living. You could also choose to live in a small apartment with other people and choose inexpensive food and clothing and deny yourself needless devices and subscription tv all while stashing a sizable chunk of your income into savings and investments, but are you?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Japan

3.2 Sanitation

In 2002 about 75 million people were connected to sewers and 35 million people had their waste water treated through small-scale waste water treatment devices called jÅkasÅs. They are common in areas not connected to sewers, but also exist in areas connected to sewers. There is even a specific jÅkasÅ law that regulates their construction, installation, inspection and desludging. JÅkasÅs use different technologies and serve different sizes of buildings from single-family homes to high-rise buildings, public or commercial buildings. Treated water can be easily reused for various purposes such as toilet flushing, watering gardens or car washing. Sludge from jÅkasÅs can be used as fertilizer

Your assumption is that life on Earth is the standard by which to measure all life. There is every bit the possibility that life on Earth is actually incredibly fragile and that the norm is "hardiness"...

I didn't read the article but you don't think it is possible that a cataclysm destroying a planet could send fragments containing this life form's ancestor hurtling into space? You're acting like it left of its own accord.

Occam's razor would actually lead one to think that because we have so little knowledge of life on our own planet, we don't have enough data to speculate about life on other planets. That's actually the simplest explanation.

Ugh! Why do you keep insisting that the Earth is not the centre of the universe, Copernicus! It has been proven by both God and Science that Everything revolves around God's pinnacle of creation!