Call me. Steve not knowing what he's doing could only last so long.

If you want a long-term technology-business-plan, you're new-tech is out-of-touch-tech.

But they forgot to mention Mars warming.

If you are designing anything bigger than a couple of gigabytes, you are in for some fun (or your users are). ;-)

To be a good designer, there is no substitute for a thorough understanding of the subject matter. And you are a self-confessed n00b. Get an expert. Or study. Hard.

Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practitioners.

Never bought one. My brother (non-nerd) did and it had RAM errors manifesting as BSODs within weeks of delivery.

The laptops were always cheap. They "check all the boxes": i.e. they have all the on-paper credentials to compete with other manufacturers, on paper. But the build quality is crap.

Also I had one loaned to me for work and the keyboard's enter key stopped working, so I carried an enormous USB keyboard around with it for 3 months. ;-)

Never. Buy. Dell.

The original Christian distribution: Jesux!

How much did the Government sell Telstra for in the first place? ;-)

There's no point sending any spam, if not your estimated 30 million messages, only to collapse the server and not relay the messages to the recipients.

The botnet operators probably think of this as an optimization problem and not good manners.

Are those living in tyranny without the safeguard of sufficient imaginary property rights!
Never mind protected civil liberties: the new fight is for imaginary liberty!

Is tagging this article !spoilerfree the same as !!spoiler and !!!spoilerfree and !!!!spoiler, and perhaps spoiler?

I call bullshit on the troll moderation of parent (also my post).

This guy has a very niche problem that:
  (1) should not be solved with virtualization,
  (2) is only because of some arbitrary and tedious restriction on how Windows installs drivers, and
  (3) does not belong on Ask Slashdot.

Virtualization is not a solution to poor operating systems.

Your Windows sucks. Enjoy your monopoly product.

Claude Shannon (Wikipedia).

Why sign it at all?????????

Classic formula: introduce oppressive legislation; remove unpopular items due to public outrage; pass the rest into an act of law.

How about NO ACTA?!?!?!

I'm sorry, I'm having a little trouble feeling sorry for people who support DRM (those who bought the game).
They paid for it. They got what they wanted.

Find someone else's sholder to cry on.

Good call. As someone else pointed out above:

Why would this stem the awful DRM? They have the money, gamers are still going to play, life moves on.

The publisher has the customer's money. Support after payment is always awful. Until customers vote with their wallets, it will only get worse.

Enjoy your intentionally defective products!

A new renaissance will be born!