you misunderstand me i think, i don't care in the slightest if people upgrade windows as the only part of that that effects me is the browser version. I still have to support ie8 at work and while that's a massive step up from the old ie6 days it still pisses me off.

my other point was that they're not doing themselves any favours by not allowing older windows versions install newer versions of ie as they're just pissing off users into switching away from ie since it's free to do so, not pissing them off into upgrading windows. eroding one very important market share for marginal at best gains in another if you will.

start by removing the OS restrictions, maybe you think limiting late versions of IE to windows 8 is a selling point for windows, but it just makes people download a browser that supports their operating system and makes web devs pissed off at having to support 3 different versions of IE, 2 of which suck donkey cock.

run dnsmasq on one of your linux boxes
point all your machines to that box as their dns server
add your local devices to the dnsmasq box's /etc/hosts like a so (pick your own domain name ofc):
192.168.1.200 server.l
192.168.1.70 panapi.l
192.168.1.80 sonypi.l
192.168.1.31 mini.l
dnsmasq will just get anything that's not in /etc/hosts from whatever that box's dns server is

also works with ip6 addresses

australia has just committed to buying 12 billion bucks worth of em as well, they much have some fucking slick sales guys

it's about a 30% cost of living increase to a 100% increase in minimum wage (depending on state ofc, but most of the US minimum wage bumps have been quite recent). the US already has a much higher youth unemployment so i'm not sure what you're going for there.

no serious economist? at *worst* economists are 50/50 on the subject, so you can shove that BS right back where it came from.

is it? that's about australia's minimum wage and the sun seems to be still shining over here.

this is what makes me angry about people bitching about minimum wage increases. there are *so* many countries with much higher minimum wages that you could quite easily look at to see the result of said changes.

here's a hint, the worse off are much less so.

people who drop prices to compete with walmart are idiots, as if they could compete on price, better to compete on quality, service or image, which are all actually easily achievable in comparison to walmart.

my guess is (yes it is a guess, as if anyone can do more) is that RT will die and some metro support will be required if you want to be a first class citizen on windows tablets, which people seem to like so it might be worth it if the market continues to grow.

i have youtube dl set up but it pushes the effort vs reward barrier pretty hard

but i find this less tool a lot less useful than if they'd just let videos buffer to the end

you can fuck a sexbot now, it's just expensive and (i'm assuming here) shit

i don't really know where you're getting that info from, most of the businesses i've had experience with are lining up windows 9 as their possible next desktop upgrade, admittedly one is a bank so they just flat out skipped from xp to 7

they're mostly throwing out really old multi-platform stuff, like dos, vms, ebcdic, win16 etc.