no such law, comcast has been doing that with their "bundles' for years (yes I have basic one); they hope you'll upgrade number of channels or else buy some pay-per-view thing once in a while so they prefer you have the TV hookup.

cost is important, eye-candy is not. ugly electric car at same price would win over cool looking gasoline one for anyone not juvenile.

One example is VMWare's VCenter to mange vmware virtualization. Various disk array and SAN switch vendors also use flash UIs.

Other things major companies have to deal with: PCI compliance auditor might have sample/issue system that uses flash, the famous one I have to deal with does.

No. You're talking about a niche of a niche market. That little geeky market doesn't matter

This article is something for mainstream, huge customer base

but that's how I get my internet

Haven't notice any issues with OpenBSD smp for things like web serving, and with rthreads becoming the default libpthread lightweight threads have good performance

I was making a joke, but the limited number of actually interconnected neurons between your ears might prevent you from processing such.

You are ignorant of how marketing and sales work, aren't you? Step one, generate hype.

yes there is, plenty of admin web gui demand it, plenty of banks and other financial web gui demand it (retirement accounts)

flash might need to die but it'll writhe and groan for a few more years

Over the fence where we outsource our carbon pollution (China), I see rising middle class, longer and longer lifespan, better health and more food.

Some pollution problems but benefits again outweighing negatives. of course, they're smart enough over there to be ramping up nuclear and have thorium breeder program. So long term their carbon pollution problem dwindles

1. top of the line phone?, who needs one? not me. your question makes no sense. irrelevant.
2. I pay $20 a month to provider with rule that I use free wifi when available for cell calls (they have servers to tie to that) and internet access, it goes to tmobile otherwise. been using them for over a year. $10 would be half of that, assuming your $10 a month a valid number

In our state they stopped teaching cursive handwriting, right at the time I was doing research into genealogy using cursive handwritten census and military records. Are they totally trying to detach children from any ties to traditional skills, ability and history?

Western civilization and technology, much longer and healthier lives...yeah I can see all those ill effects. let's go live in a cave and beat hides on rocks to clean them

Reading comprehension fails you, I was not offering a definition for "assault rifle". Read again.

Wrong, relativistic mass a very relevant point when talking of any "massless" particle that has real world consequences regarding momentum transfer, conservation of momentum etc. All "massless" particles must have relativistic mass, they cannot exist without it