OP is just discovering the command line and finding out, that you can actually do almost anything with it.Don't bash his learning process (pun intended).

Take a webcam picture:
streamer -f jpeg -o image.jpg

Do magic with that picture:
convert image.jpg -colorspace Gray image_gray.jpg

And do check out rest of the ImageMagick:
http://www.imagemagick.org/

The piracy is just the reason they tell the public.

The real reason is that their firewall/surveillance software is not yet fully compatible with latest operating systems.

and a cartridge designed to release smell

Damn, now I don't get to say: "Your Xbox stinks!"

Please, don't trivialize things.

Sure, you can only use browser to access the internet. Secure browser will not compromise your system. But it will give the hacker your IP address.

Using the IP address the hacker can do a number of things. He can exploit vunerability on some service, that is not protected by the firewall. Or exploit a problem in the firewall software itself. These vunerabilities are not so common, but it is naive to think, that if you only use the browser, only thing that needs to be secure - is the browser.

The whole XP OS is getting compromised, because hackers had so much time to work on it. And soon, the exploits will not be fixed. Please upgrade to an OS that gets regular security updates or disconnet yourself from the internet.

No sane auto manufacturer is going to take the risk of legal liability. There will be accidents. And there will be lawsuits.

I am betting all the research that goes on at Ford or Toyota is just for the patents - they don't ever want to go in to production. Too risky.

Is NSA finding this RNG hard to crack, or did NSA tell RSA to slip in a backdoor back in 2006 - and RSA folks are trying to crawl out of the hole they dug for themselves?

Once you get used to it, the new Start menu is ok. You don't spend much time in there anyway.

The real pain in the ass are the stupid full screen Metro apps. Yeah, they just pop up with brightly colored interface that is optimized for touch. They completely disrupt your workflow, there is no visible Exit-button, and they do that for one screen only (if you have multimonitor system, you will totally hate this).

This happens more every now and then and I have to go through some trouble to replace them with better OSS alternatives. If you are watching a video, default app might pop up, and maybe nag about codec or not being up to date - when you really just want to see the video now, with clear controls. PDF reader pops up with no clear navigation and ofcourse fullscreen, and these ofcourse always go to the same monitor, even if you would like to read the PDF on screen #2, while coding. Shit like this happens also with images and music, and the interface is just .. horrible.

I don't even care anymore, if they fixed this. I've been downloading OSS replacements for just about every program and I am curretly ok with my Windows. But instead of fixing the Start menu, which is only a minor nuisance, they could make WINDOWED and USABLE default apps.

They should also shoot the guy, who designed all their new software (Office, Visual Studio..) USING ONLY CAPS FOR TITLES, patch them back to normal and make my eyes hurt less.

What this numeric system, you are using? Seriously, I don't have computer with 10 GB ram, 100 GB ram or anything like that..

You should know better.

For me, answer is 2^14, from my first PC.

You need to check more carefully:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Intel-Xeon-Ivy-Bridge-EP-Server,21972.html

..and replacing him with someone who knows all the technologies today will help how?

The projects are already underway, late and technological decisions have already been made.

The problem is, he shouldn't have been making these decisions in the first place! They need a technological guru to tell them how to design the architecture, what technologies to use and how to implement this in reasonable time.

The original manager can still keep his paycheck, make decisions about schedules, go to customers and explain why everything is late, worry about tracking resources (humans) and reporting to his superiors.

They just need a high level position for technical guy, who really knows his stuff, but doesn't like to become an evil manager (all managers are evil by nature) and can help the with the big picture. Hell, this could even be a career path for successful techie in their own company. Why does everyone always think to get promoted you must become a manager?

You must be a techie. The coding kind.

Head of IT doesn't really need to know that much tech. His blind trust in his underlings might be an issue, but lack of technical skills is not really an issue.

What they lack is manager level (paywise) position for Solution Architect - or just good old fashioned software process, like Scrum .

I see no reason why you can't become a good programmer. I work in IT and I see many people over forty having to learn new skills, because they are familiar with the operational systems and have too little on their plate (that is what bosses always think..).

Then again, you are becoming a grunt. You are pushed down from your career path, doing things that twenty-somethings do when they are just hired.

My advice to you: become really good in something. Pick one programming language you like, and start to design large scale architectures, interactions between high level critical systems and make sure that if they get implemented, you'll be there doing it. You need to get your career going, and IMHO software architect is the way to go.

Let's - for the sake of argument - assume, that I will pirate Photoshop CC.

Now let's also assume that BSA will raid my house and put me in jail pending trial.

And then.. how much do I owe Adobe? How much damage have I caused using pirated software? Surely not $700 (price of Photoshop CS6)?

* Numbers may be subject to change once verified with actual the parts.

http://images.anandtech.com/doci/6936/Screen%20Shot%202013-05-06%20at%2011.16.42%20AM.png

So this is marketing pulling figures out of somewhere and posting them as the Ultimate Truth, without actually having the hardware to test them with?

Migration is for the poor :)

I have Windows, *BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Android, iOS peacefully coexisting on my various computers/devices. I use what I like.

There is no one OS to rule them all - instead, enjoy your choices!