judging from the reactions on this board
Your judgement is incorrect. People are just pissed that they were not selected for the beta program. Let's try a different post:
Google glass giveaway!
The first 10k commenters will receive a free pair of Google Glasses.
How long would it take to get 10k posts?
Binary drivers and provide a stable ABI for binary drivers.
+1. Exactly that, and everything else he said.
There is absolutely no need for Windows anymore, except for Gaming and editing MS Office documents.
Or making money using Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya, Inventor, Autocad, Altium, VS, Vegas, etc...
There are uses for computers other than browsing the internet, watching movies and playing games.
How much evidence are you prepared to ignore?
All of it.
Justin Bieber. Miley Cyrus. Legalizing drugs. Much more interesting.
when it became a political liability
Did it? Nobody got even as much as a slap on the wrist.
My daughters WD 500 gig blue edition is damned near as fast loading levels in games.
Without testing a different HDD in place of your drive, it's silly blaming it on the SSD. It can be anything from your motherboard, SATA controller, bad memory, cable, heck you might even have some malware installed.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.