Because I trust those companies less than idiots like ubisoft?

You will have to major rewriting whether you want to or not. You will not cover every base out of the gate. Your users will do stuff and break stuff that you will never think of at this stage. Hell you may come up with a clever way to implement a feature - but that may only occur several months after the users have been exposed to the product.

It is just a fact of life. No plan is perfect, no software is perfect, and nothing ever survives the userbase intact.

Your resignation letter only has to say the minimum - Nixon's resignation letter, is the best example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Letter_of_Resignation_of_Richard_M._Nixon,_1974.jpg

I've used the same basic letter when I've quit in the past. You may get hauled into a meeting to find out why, but you don't have to tell them anything other than you quit (if they want you to work a notice period you'll find out)

A heavy reader - does more than 30 minutes a day - that would be a light reader...

I read 2-4 hours per day if I can afford the time (zero otherwise). I charge my kindle every couple of weeks if reading heavily on it, then again i'm doing 50/50 kindle to paper..

I have a smart 3dtv, I bought that model because it was the cheapest way to get an LCD/LED backlit TV with enough HDMI sockets for my gear.

All the cheap non-smart/non-3d TV on the market in my price range and target screen size maxed out at 2 HDMI sockets, moving up to a smart TV gained me an extra HDMI and 3D... Moving up a model again gained another HDMI...

I use none of the smart tv features - my dvr does them better...

Because the BBC is stuffed full with left nut jobs the way Fox is full of right wing nut jobs...

In other words he was a typical test pilot of the time.

So you won't mind living in a fascist state?
As that is where all this leads to.

An episode of NCIS had a girl bumping into strangers with a NFC skimmer http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683271/ NCIS season 8 episode 8 - Enemies Foreign

We had a similar story. Our local exchange (500m away) got 21cn and they (BT) refused to sells us a faster 21cn connection because we already had a 2mb leased line (from before BT's 8mb adsl max rollout) and they could not sell us a cheaper solution...

I know just enough vi to get my favourite editor compiled & installed if I can't get a package...

Agreed in principle. However I still use the TWM setup i came up with on SunOS4 back at college 20+ years ago.

So the DOJ did the right thing by accident then?

MS will get so large and lethargic it will slowly rot to death from the inside?

Sounds like someone played the long game...

Slap you vpn admin until he sets up split-tunnelling properly if your vpn locks out your lan.

I use a cisco asa based vpn and with split tunnelling turned on at the host i can still use my lan while vpn is connected.

You just must have a different subnets for the local & remote.

There is no reason for PAM ever