That fact that they need to put a multi page FAQ on their website to explain how to create a login account without a credit card number is telling enough.

In their defense SAP's software is even worse bloatware than the crap McAfee puts out.

So how many times did iTunes ask you for your credit card number?

Actually it isn't. This service only works for full retail versions of Windows. If you are an OEM user it won't work.

You're wrong. They had the ISOs publicly available at Digital River for yonks over FTP. Then they pulled them down.

MS just likes to make things harder for paying users than needs be.

The Reply to This, Parent, and Share hyperlinks use a different front and if someone has a .sig they overlap it. That's one of the problems.

The wheel gets reinvented. Again. The Cray-3 used Gallium Arsenide and 3D chip packaging i.e. chip stacking. You can see 3D chip stacking in use today in things like smartphones. The thing is the Cray-3 is from 1991.

Sounds more like someone decided to bork a perfectly fine and stable piece of software. Software doesn't rot.

Gun good! Penis bad!

If those meat bags are sent dead, or don't breathe, drink, or eat along the way, it might be possible.

You could also do it with multiple launches and in-orbit assembly.

Nah. All they had to do was let the Greek banks fail and handle it as any other business bankruptcy. The bank assets would be resold on the market and used to repay the creditors who would then have to write down the debt on their books. Instead they're just kicking the can down the road and letting the debt snowball.

I don't hate Germany. I hate near sighted politicians. And I don't know why you think I'm Greek.

Why did you think Merkel was kowtowing to Putin regarding Ukraine? Germany has cut their armed forces substantially since the fall of the Soviet Union. Just look at the amount of Leopard 2 tanks they sold to other countries including Greece. The Germans today have less Leopard 2 tanks in their army than the Greeks!

That's why Putin can do whatever he damned pleases.

That's one of the reasons the Greeks are miffed at Germany. A large fraction of the Greek government expenses were spent in German military hardware. German military companies actively corrupted Greek government officials to get those contracts. This is documented.

Ask the Czechs and Poles why they're dragging their feet so they don't get in the Eurozone.

Fact is anyone with an economy that matters has tried to steer well clear of the Euro for quite some time now ever since the troubles started. And if countries start being ejected it will only precipitate the destruction of the Eurozone.

If only the PIIGS had done that too.