Inexhaustible? Has no one seen The Matrix? When the machines take over, we are going to have to block out the sun. What use are your silly solar panels then?

Those prices seem unusually high, although depending on what "conventional" internet is, a one time fee of $300 for broadband internet access sounds tempting.

One of my favorite Futurama scenes:

Mayor Poopenmayer: Professor Wernstrom, can you save my city?
Professor Wernstrom: Of course, but it'll cost you. First, I'll need tenure.
Mayor Poopenmayer: Done.
Professor Wernstrom: And a big research grant.
Mayor Poopenmayer: You got it.
Professor Wernstrom: Also, access to a lab, and five graduate students, at least three of them Chinese.
Mayor Poopenmayer: All right, done. What's your plan?
Professor Wernstrom: What plan? I'm set for life. Au revoir, suckers!
Leela: That rat! Do something!
Mayor Poopenmayer: I wish I could, but he's got tenure.

So LOOOL (Laugh Out Out Out Loud) is as funnier than LOL (Laugh Out Loud)? While the attempt at an algorithm to discover funny videos is interesting, I hope they are keeping in mind how low the bar is when studying YouTube comments.

So the Blue Screen of Death could really mean death...

Don't go to "college". Come to our "fellowship" and take "classes" where we will mentor you and teach you things. That doesn't sound like a university at all...

The main difference is that they will probably dedicate more time an money for these students which will somehow prove it is better not to go to college... and they'd be right. It is probably better to get taken under the wing of a billionaire and get a free education than go to college.

Not that anyone would ever actually care, but your sig is a violation of Federal Law, and you've racked a potential of over $120,000 in fines do to the number of comments you've made using it.
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While obviously it does utilize data storage, lookup, and statistical probabilities to help find and choose an answer, it also significantly relies on machine learning (a large branch of AI) to understand the questions and choose the answers.

I did a 6th grade term paper on how alchemy was the precursor to modern chemistry (and other sciences), and decades later this is front page news?

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Wow, your car increases its fuel efficiency by 100% for each passenger you add, but the bus decreases fuel efficiency for each passenger? You should get all those people from the bus to join your carpool and you'll never have to fill up again.

The article was not about whether MS used proper coding techniques, just about whether they were lying about the browser being a part of the OS.

I'm pretty sure they are backward compatible - that's why they have BeforeNavigate() and BeforeNavigate2() methods [and NavigateComplete()/NavigateComplete2(), and NewWindow()/NewWindow2()/NewWindow3()]. The older methods still work for backward compatibility, but they are marked as deprecated and/or obsolete.

It has been proven, time and time again that technically, yes you could remove the browser, and you could still boot and use the OS, but numerous parts of the system would no longer work or would crash if you tried to use them.

I understand the difference between a rendering engine and a browser, but I highly doubt that the courts or the media do. I'm betting that any references to "browser" in court documents and the news could be replaced with "rendering engine" or "browser libraries" and instantly make all those claims 100% true.

The article is not really about the anti-trust case - it is about Microsoft saying the browser and OS would be difficult to de-couple.

It really doesn't matter why they chose to bundle them together with respect to the current topic. The author of the article is trying to make Microsoft sound like a liar because they said they couldn't unlink the two (in the time specified by the court anyway). The fact that they have solved this problem over 10 years later should not come as a surprise.

Define "it".

Oh, and it appears that I was wrong, the trial started before XP was released, so this actually started with Windows 95/98 and IE4/5. It's just that lots of businesses still use XP and IE6. This only further helps my argument because MS would have already started to separate things by the time Windows XP was released.

Um, when Microsoft made that claim, they were referring to Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6 which are both almost 9 years old. At that time, IE6 was very likely tightly linked to the OS. They slowly "unlinked" it over the years which I'm sure was a lot of work. You can argue that they shouldn't have linked it in the first place (you may or may not be right). The fact that you could upgrade from IE6 to IE7 or 8 does not mean it was not linked - can you not upgrade certain pieces of the OS on Linux, Unix, or MacOS in small pieces? Isn't that what a patch is?

We are now to MAJOR OS versions later and Microsoft doesn't claim the OS and the browser are linked anymore.