Someone should tell the airlines that commercially available passenger flight will never work because of the complete lack of the all-important "last mile" solution.

That's been solved already, long ago.

For what it's worth, the founding of SolarCity with his two cousins have caused a gigawatt of solar to be installed in the last 8 years, and a massive manufacturing plant to be built in Buffalo, NY to create manufacturing jobs in the US, and give China some competition for solar panels.

No, it's not a complete game changer, but it's also not the square root of jack shit.

An amusement park. People pay good money to go on roller coasters, and scraping the speed of sound in a little capsule-tube-thing would be a huge attraction.

Test the tech, and recoup some expense at the same time.

how about:

if [ ! -z "$STEAMROOT" ]
then...

Get over yourself. Even Obama has called it Obamacare. That's what the program is known as in the zeitgeist now, just the same as someone uses a Kleenex, or drinks a Coke rather than facial tissue or cola.

Oh, so what everyone suggested they do with 8 during the preview / leaks.

Sounds like they're a couple years late to what was completely obvious.

I use ClassicShell here at home. That being said,I sure wouldn't want to support 10,000+ installs of a hack like that. That's asking for a nightmare.

Yeah, this is also an acceptable response for the ~1 BILLION devices out there, and all their users.

Idiot.

There was also massive changes to the plumbing and wiring that necessitated upgrading in the 14 years previous to XP, where there was almost none in the 14 that came after XP.

The only one that most people are on-board with is 64-bit, and Microsoft made such a hash of that in comparison to the rest of the world that it took them 3 tries to get it right (XP 64-bit, Vista64, Win7 64). Yes, there are other advantages to Windows 7 over XP, which is why most of corporate america built in back-versioning rights into their Microsoft agreements - they want the last version that isn't retarded. So they buy OEM equipment with Win8 stickers on them, and use their Software Assurance to back-license it to Win7.

Not only that, he has people going from Windows 2000 to Windows ME.

In the history of the world, NOBODY would have done that. I didn't even leave Windows 2000 for XP until XP SP2 was released and it actually outperformed Win2K.

I do argue that Google's role in this malfeasance is that they haven't contractually obligated handset manufacturers to make updates available for 2+ years after model introduction.

It's absolutely ridiculous that they are selling handsets right now that have known unpatched vulnerabilities, and will never have updates made available without rooting, shitcanning the OEM software stack, and loading a 3rd party community image of some kind, with zero culpability.

Cite the fucking law, if it's so mandated by law.

Because if you're right, then Apple has a few hundred million counts of breaking that law.

And somehow this is an acceptable situation?

"Too fucking bad buy a new phone" is not a proper response for a gaping security flaw. I hold Google accountable, as well as the handset manufacturers.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhaha ha heh. Oh, were you being serious?

When major developed countries start holding Bitcoin in their currency reserves, and commodities / futures / financial instruments are being traded on the open market in Bitcoin instead of USD, then you can lay claim to being the "premier form of currency in the world."

Bitcoin isn't even in the top 5. Are you cracked?

Yeah, just like house flipping seemed like a great way to make money 6 years ago. Then the bottom fell out and everyone lost their shit.

Grass is always greener, and all that. Get good at what you do, and leverage it. If you're only mediocre at what you do, either get better or find something else that you are good at.

Nobody pays well for mediocre.