You mean we could have banged up Dickie Nixon into a prison cell for war crimes after he was pardoned by his best mate? Damn! That was a missed opportunity.

I think you'll find pardons don't work the way you think they do.

Way to totally miss the point. If you bought any movies from Amazon, you didn't actually buy the media, you only bought the licence to watch them. See the recent case of Disney preventing movies already bought from being watched just because they don't feel like it.

Hence, you don't store any real media in the cloud.

What is wrong with a nice VM?
Who dedicates real hardware to test these days?

Ditto with previous versions experience. I started using 6 when it was in beta and I only had one stupid deadlock issue which there was no way of fixing easily and one quota issue (it appears to be broken at the moment, even when my 40GB quota was less than half used, it was reporting full). Allegedly fixed but I just removed my quotas.

Dupe issue appears to have been fixed, that was what made me stop it using last time.

And so what, what has happened to Sun Open Office? Abandoned, rotting in Apache's abandonware collection. The alternative was complete bitrot so I applaud Apache for taking it on board, just for the sake of it.

Libreoffice, on the other hand, is getting a lot more submissions and features.

I find Kensington Orbits work just like you've described, plenty simple and cheap machines and they last a while. I've got a logitech thinking it would be smaller hence easier to take it around (it wasn't), I find it extremely painful after a couple of hours. The problem with the Orbit is the ball is very loose so if you don't take the ball out , you might find yourself on all fours trying to reach the ball under some office fuzz under a desk and that really doesn't look good in front of customers.

Thumb? Either yo don't have a proper trackball or one of those mouse-wannabe logitechs. You need to use your fingers, not thumb.

I'm a regular Kensington Orbit user as well but I got a Logitech trackball for road warrior use and damn, that was a mistake, it really hurts my wrist after a couple of hours. Kensington on the other hand, fixed my RSI problems in a very short time. I cannot understand how people tolerate mice.

Poppycock - computers were already a major thing - in UK even bakeries had started installing them in 1951. You Americans need to learn the computing history all over again.

You being punished doesn't help the people hurt you tosser.

I wonder if your other tagline is "it's the people who kill people, not guns".

You lost me at the Windows bit... And they expect performance out of it?
Don't think so. Oracle would have sold their Exadata solution and that's not Windows.

Looking at my a year old Oracle licencing costs, $43 million can get you approx 835.64 Oracle Enterprise licences, that's a total of 1671.3 Intel CPU cores with 0.5 factor. That's a measly 26.11 16 core -each - quad socket machines, hardly enough to cover a cluster of 4 for development, UAT testing, interface dev & tests, a pair of production clusters... And that's w/o counting any hardware, electricity and more advanced functionalities like RAC for Oracle.

This sounds like a bit of a toy project to me.

Torygraph, almost as bad as Daily Scary Mail.
Next headline: Snowden was a necrophiliac and wanted to dig up your grandma's grave!

The problem with the dousing rod bomb detectors were not because they were shite, they were accepted by the UK Gov as legitimate, making it a political problem as well as a technical & ethical problem. The bastard selling them was an ex-Met police officer, had connections and even though anyone with two brain cells and a technical background could clearly say they were fake, they managed to catch the bombs roughly 50% of the time. Of course, if you flip a coin you'll get it 50% of the time but for people who don't understand probability, this sounds like a very high catch rate. The alarming reports have been around for years and years but it took a BBC documentary for people to wake up and pay attention.

Any politician who had authorized the purchase of the fake systems were just too corrupt to accept they made a huge cockup. I wonder how much money was paid in bribes, worldwide.

In the modern world, (i.e., Europe) polygraphs are not considered reliable evidence, in some countries completely forbidden.
Mainly in the Americas it's much more trusted.