Except that for people who are not working alone, there are more commands that need to be considered basic in DVCS than in traditional VCS.

The biggest threat to free and open source software is, and always has been FUD. What this article is saying is that previous FUD did not work, so it is trying to come up with new FUD.

And if you tap quickly on one of the other items in that menu multiple times, you get a real Easter egg, the contents of which depend on the version of Android (for Lollipop it is a flappy bird type game, other versions have been animated histories of Android versions, or static images related to the current version in 2.x).

It would only be like Apple Records if they already had an out-of-court settlement agreeing that Apple the Computer company would never get into the watch business, and Apple the aspiring watch company would never get into the computer business so lets both agree to let the other use its trademark in its own space.

It's really not clear what fully open source alternatives you are talking about here, as I'm not aware of any alternative web development environment comparable in scope to .NET today that lacks Unicode support.

What if thousands of people were to walk in to Apple stores during the first week, excitedly ask for an Apple watch, then act disappointed and decline to pre-order when told they couldn't have one right away. Apple is so asking to be gamed here, they aren't going to have a clue what the real demand for their watches is, and may end up seriously overproducing for the following months' supply based on the market research they gather from this exercise.

Sorry, what part of type some simple code into a webpage (with better formatting and syntax highlighting than the slashdot example below), get a binary file back which you copy over USB to your board, reset and it runs is funny in the context of this discussion? Cross platform tools are available if you want them, but the beginner doesn't even need to install them to get started.

#include "mbed.h"

DigitalIn enable(p5);
DigitalOut led(LED1);
int main() {
while(1) {
if(enable) {
led = !led;
}
wait(0.25);
}
}

Yes

If a person works 35-40 hours a week should they receive the same pay as someone working 45-50 hours? Anyone looking at that should say "No, the person working more hours should receive more pay." but somehow this obvious point eluded you.

We have two people - one who completes a set amount of work in 35 hours, and another who completes the same amount of work in 50 hours. And you want to pay the second person more ...why exactly? To encourage slacking off on the clock?

Often river embankments are grassy mounds, but they're more for seasonal flood control than tsunamis. The tsunami walls I've seen along beaches are very much concrete walls, and while they do have a roadway along the top and sloped sides with steps at intervals and the occaisional roadway leading up to them, they are anything but attractive.

Trusted devices is useful for avoiding the driver distraction issue of having to enter my password when I want to read and post to Slashdot while I drive. Having it recognize my Home and Work Wifi networks would be far more useful than this body motion detection.

Printing was another reason to require a signed applet. It was possible to limit the extra capabilities granted to an applet - but it was a huge learning curve that most developers were not interested in, and chances are that the end user isn't going to notice, or understand the difference (since their brain will shut down when they see the security dialog) so in most cases, a signed applet was getting full access, just like an ActiveX control.

Daewoo cars are now mostly branded as Chevrolet (maybe still Opel or Vauxhill in Europe), even in Korea. They are responsible for most of the smaller car designs from GM (from the Cruze down).

Chery is the only Chinese manufacturer I've seen locally, though another poster commented that Great Wall is available in Australia, so different manufacturers may be targeting different markets.

It was also due to the government's insistence that their homegrown encryption algorithms be used, combined with a delay in getting the algorithms registered as an official Cipher Suite for SSL/TLS, that led to them being implemented at the application layer rather than the transport layer.

They tried it for a while - N. Korea had a special zone just across the border where South Korean companies could send in managerial staff daily, but it turns out that such a scheme is not sustainable in the political climate that exists between the two Koreas. I don't think many South Korean companies are interested any more in having a factory that they can be closed down on a whim every time the supreme leader has a tantrum.