....adequately fill up all the shortcomings of Civilizations - no matter which one?

Change your URL to http://slashdot.org/?nobeta=1

So Comcast gives out dual SSID routers out to everyone? In that case, it's not a case of Comcast stealing customer bandwidth to provide to their other customers, if the customer uses SSID0 and the public uses SSID1

Apple already has it. It's just that their biz model requires that it run only on their boxes.

Not much. What changed in the 2000s was NT becoming more multi-threaded & multi-processed, enabling performance scaling from multi-core architectures from both Intel & AMD. That's what made it easier for newer & faster CPUs: in the 90s, Wintel PCs couldn't improve their performance by tossing more CPUs @ the box, whereas today, they can. Not so much an issue w/ Unixstations

Had Intel's Itanium plan worked, Intel would have been happy to let x86 die. Problem was that AMD would have none of it, and extended x86 CISC to 64-bit. So if you are pissed @ x86 not being dead already, look @ AMD, who'd have had the option of Alpha CPUs had they been open to RISC. Had AMD gone w/ Alphas & Intel w/ Itanium, AMD would likely have won that one

Yeah, I'm seeing the same thing - and am not posting as AC. But regardless of whether I check the No ads box or not, I keep seeing the Ads. What's more - I don't have Flash installed on my laptop under either IE or FF (and do not have Chrome) and yet, I'm seeing not just ads, but animated ads.

Has /. decided to disable the ad disabling mechanism for those who don't switch to beta?

Recently, @ ORD in transit, I needed to use WiFi w/ my iPod to use my email to inform colleagues where I was. Google interpreted it as someone trying to break into my account, and forced me to change a password I've had for 10 years. Yahoo! too couldn't be accessed, since the WiFi there was open. They had a touchscreen somewhere, but that had a resistive screen, making it impossible to do any typing for long.

That's one way, but if the boycotter in question has skills that the companies in question want at the price they want them, and then turn around and refuse to entertain them, that is what sends a message. So how many do it?

This!!!

Yeah, now when people ask for SWIFT programmers, don't be surprised if people working in the financial sector turn up w/ their resumes

Well, thank you Apple for overloading yet another acronym. SWIFT is already popular in the financial industry for transactional information

Beijing just needs to pick one! Maybe they could spin one of their own, called Communist Desktop Environment (CDE)

You missed the story earlier this year: Red Flag software has shut down

FreeDOS doesn't have any capabilities that DOS doesn't have. It's 16-bit, has the 640kB limit and so on - just like DOS. No Linux involved, even though it is GPLed