Yes, none is better. I'd rather not be given an option if I don't really like either. Furthermore, if you accidentally click on a link with Flash content, your browser may slow to a crawl.

You purchased some random kitchen tool (1) without knowing what it does and (2) without any idea what you were going to do with it? Man have I got some fine products to show you...

You mean to say they plan to also build a weather machine to replicate the ever sunny skies here?

From what I can tell, VS2010 is going back to the old model of just including all the DLLs in the app directory. VS2008 was a huge pain with its manifests and SxS assemblies and crap.

A mod of Funny doesn't give the submitter any karma. For generosity, some people mod funny posts as Informative or Insightful.

... and that killer app would probably be easier to write in DirectX.

This is not entirely true for a framework like OpenGL. You surely can add your own features or improve performance on your end, but these changes must be incorporated into graphics card drivers by vendors in order to have a wide audience. This is where it helps to have the industry clout that Microsoft does (not that this is necessarily a good thing, but they have the power to push through changes into hardware using their DirectX specs).

Real men don't ask for help! But seriously, every a Windows pplication uses F1 as a shortcut key for opening up Help. I so rarely use Help that I really don't need a shortcut key for it. Worse, it's next to Esc, which I do use quite often to unselect active menus, etc. Accidentally hitting F1 in, e.g. Visual Studio, wastes a good few seconds as the bloated Help window loads.

That most certainly does not result in a monopole. You'd get a quadrupole I think.