Good luck accomplishing that when cellular carriers routinely abandon previous network stacks before their respective 20-year patents expire.

Then perhaps I'm not sure what you meant by "really stupid permissions".

What clubbing are you talking about?

Young seals and young dogs are both pups.

Now I get it: a seal pup looks cute because it combines most of the appearance of a dog with the whiskers of a cat and even shorter legs than a dachshund or corgi.

I assume this is an allusion to the folk tale "The Seal Wife" (#4080 on the Christiansen list) about a "selkie" (someone from an indigenous culture that makes swimsuits from sealskins) who washes up on an island on the north side of Scotland. She takes off her swimsuit and sets it aside, but a fisherman steals it. Stockholm syndrome ensues.

How much space would it take on the install disc to have full manuals for all included packages translated into all supported languages?

If you'll remember, Windows XP's default theme was considered "Fisher-Price" until people saw Windows 8's Start Screen.

Won't have the Google Play Store. The Android CDD requires that apps run in the full screen (or at least think that they're running in the full screen). This means the calculator app fills your entire 24" monitor, obscuring whatever else you're working on.

Are you aware of what permissions a .deb has to the user accounts on your box?

Try opening some of the larger, more complex Pages and Numbers docs and seeing what Word and Excel do with them. Or try opening Word and Excel, saving your complex documents in ODF, and opening them in LibreOffice for Windows. Let me know if that works any better.

Perhaps "Linux on the multi-window desktop" or "Linux on the desktop in a focused activity setting" is a more precise of what some people mean. The Android ecosystem, from the CDD on up, is staunchly opposed to rich window management, instead preferring a paradigm of all maximized all the time that makes it hard to work on one document while referring to another document.

Without a substantial usage share, it's hard to find affordable hardware on which to run "a technically damn good kernel".

Other than the political limits of obtaining cooperation from hardware manufacturers and application developers.

Netflix, Hulu, and the like do not offer arrangements to take advantage of this "five hour early morning window of unmetered downloads". I can explain how they could technically do so and still appease the movie studios, but they happen not to do it.

You are drawing a picture for me, because your refusal to answer a simple question paints the picture as clearly as an essay on the subject would do.

Well, firstly, nothing you do or say is going to make me shut up. No amount of hand gesticulation will halt the growing wave of tsunami of community anger and frustration at denial. You imagine that our patience is infinite. It is not.

Secondly you seem to be confused about exactly what your assertion was. You said that the cost of mitigation is more expensive than the cost of not mitigating and adapting (thus contradicting Stern et al). To put it into slow words for the slow among us, this has nothing to do with the choice or lack of choice.

Now cite a paper or article that proves your assertion ( the cost of mitigation is more expensive than the cost of not mitigating and adapting), or do so yourself.

The original mission duration was 668 sols for Curiosity. It is on 723 sols or so.