I don't think they care about software upgrades. I do think they care about hardware OEM's shipping old versions of their OS.

Versions 1& 2 were not good. NT 4 was, Windows 2000 was.

I'm not sure if windows ME , XP or Vista were prime or not, more of a NaN.

Interesting. I thought it was just the practicality of it. But maybe there was some odd elitism there too. Like: sports cars are for dumb jocks. Luxury cars are for the trust fund crowd. Every one in the English department loves Keats and drives volvos at Harvard. We must too!

Ok, that level of crazy dumb. Got it.

How crazy dumb do you have to believe that liberals are communists?

Whoosh!

Man who says crazy things says hes perfectly rational. News at 11.

I'm not sure who really buys them. They have a legacy of being ugly boxes that are really safe to drive. That's not a market segment I'm familiar with, but as long as they are still ugly and still safe, I guess they'll be okay?

I still kind of get them confused with saabs. Do they have the same stigma? Sabb drivers were upper middle class new englanders, so went the steriotype. Would they buy chinese? I don't know anyof them.

Hard. And by hard, I mean expensive. That had to be custom written by lawyers.

Custom notice: lets call that a days work, including the necissary research of the site to make sure there weren't any bad references to the products or company.

8 hours labor.

Cost ofr high powered lawyering $500 per hour.

total $4500.

Now most of that would be the labor of researching the site. So even if they didn't end up writing a friendly letter, thats nearly $4000. So Ikea can either sepend $4000 research on each infringment it finds, or just send a preapproved scary warning letter.

Or as every idiot that now inhabits slashdot seems to forget: FIREWALLS EXIST!!!!

You are aware of the existence of firewalls, right?

No, its ambiguous in common usage. It could mean either. I could cite thousands of instances around the web where notable sources use it to mean either.

I'd agree that the current status of chat-bots as turring test winners is wrong headed. However, a sufficiently advanced chat bot is artifically intelligent.

Gee, I wonder what could have effected their profitablity since that year.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

My counter argument: there isn't a better authority. If you want a better one, please form one. They are the ones that define such terms and administer help to people who have such conditions. My appeal to authority, isn't a a fallacious, illogical appeal to authority. Read up, yo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

I'm essentially arguing that the commonly accepted authority is the commonly accepted authority. AND there is no reason to doubt that they are the authority in this matter.