Apple's magsafe always falls out for me. If they are the pinnacle of design then that tech is not worth it.

Makefiles are the devil sir.

In addition to what others are adding, in my experience Visual Studio actually works. XCode and some of the others are very unpolished in the debug area. They randomly disconnect from debug target or some such. MonoDevelop randomly corrupting layouts drove me mad.

There are more baseball bat homicides than gun homicides in the US. Should we then regulate baseball bats?

This laptop came with 6GB, was less than $700, and running Windows 8 with Chrome (90MB) and RDC (164MB) open it has 1.7GB in use.

Then use the closed source drivers? Don't see the problem here.

This is just more rumor mill junk! Reads like a hit piece put out by a competitor. Do none of you remember when games on the Sony platform broke because they were hacked and PSN was taken down?

http://www.1up.com/news/capcom-always-online-psn-drm-decided-case-by-case

http://www.ps3trophies.org/forum/announcements/39949-read-psn-service-down-some-titles-unplayable.html

Something you might not notice initially, but is a welcome fix is that games like StarCraft (the first one) run without as many issues in Windows 8. In Windows 7 there are all sorts of problems with the graphics, partly I hear because of explorer.exe taking over the palette.

based on what I'm reading about windows 8.

Which is the real problem. Most people I've seen who say it's bad haven't even used it. In the future, it should become the de-facto Windows gaming iteration, as they cleaned up and refined the graphics systems.

Which only just recently is getting a Linux port.

but right now even a 2009 iPhone runs the latest ios 6.1.2

With none of the new features, and they may have even removed a few! So awesome!

eBay takes 2 cuts if you use PayPal. They bought them so that they could control all the money.

Check out the AOL Lira patents and the discussion around them. They cover scroll bounce in some methods and it is believe that Apple's patent is merely natural evolution of them, ie not patent worthy.

http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?FT=D&date=20031002&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP&CC=WO&NR=03081458A1&KC=A1&ND=4