I'm most certainly over thinking this but it could be a comment on the inefficiencies of the giant bureaucracy that would need to be in place in order to administrate a massively autocratic, centralized regime such as the Empire.

I'd second this. I'd certainly be interested in looking at such a collection on eBay and if the donations went to an organization that supports Free Software all the better.

Eh, I didn't include those because they weren't really consumer operating systems, they were more business focused. After 2000 they started doing the whole professional/enterprise edition with the same name thing. It's a level of revisionism I'm more comfortable with!

• 1. Windows 1
• 2. Windows 2
• 3. Windows 3.x
• 4. Windows 95
• 5. Windows 98
• 6. Windows ME
• 7. Windows XP
• 8. Windows Vista
• 9. Windows 7
• 10. Windows 8
• 11. Windows 10

They're incrementing back towards being in line but still, what?

That's a completely fair criticism of Firefox. Thankfully there's something one can do about it, Classic Theme Restorer is fantastic. I'm not a fan of the Chrome look and feel so this suits me well.

I think it depends on where you live as to how accurate they can be. Most of the time they're pretty good here in Utah but there are periods when things change so quickly and unpredictably that they can't keep up. When I lived in England the climate seemed a lot more consistent (rain, grey skies for 7 months of the year!) so that could be the source of different experience or at least perception of forecast reliability.

Apples to oranges. This all comes back to property rights and what you're actually buying. In your example I don't own the race track so I have no rights to it without the express permission of the owner, a fee may be involved. In this case, however, the discussion revolves around what one can do with property they own. Sharing information about that property is neither immoral nor unlawful. It would seem it is illegal under the DMCA but that seems rather ridiculous to most with rational heads on their shoulders. If the manufacturer wanted to sell added capacity they shouldn't sell the unit in a crippled state but make the add-on features available by way of additional/replacement hardware. A good example of this is the Roland synthesizer expansion cards that provide additional instrument patches. They're a little PCB that you pop in to a slot under an easily accessible panel. I don't really know a great deal about oscilloscopes but I suspect it's not beyond reason to expect that a company producing complex electronic devices do something similar. This is especially true given how technical the consumer base is for such products and the idea they're surprised by it is, quite frankly, ridiculous.

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Lennart Pottering needs to read the last line of this comment in particular!

It's a matter of preference and consistency for me. I've been using vi/vim for more than 15 years and have it as my default editor on my desktop so I have the same environment whether I'm ssh'd to a system I manage or editing scripts locally. I feel that my motivations for doing so are far from retarded!

One thing that has been a challenge is learning XEDIT under z/VM in the last couple of years. Many a REXX EXEC has ended up with a :wq on the last line I was editing!

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Yep, go buy it if you think you can do something constructive with it.

Amen to that, all hail Bob!

If you want the Model M experience with a super key and USB connectivity I'd recommend Unicomp. They're a little pricey but provide a very close approximation to the original Model M feel.

I took a pay cut to move in to the digital forensics field in 2007 mainly because of the large volume of included training that was offered and the prospect of increased salaries in the future. I feel that it paid off, I got to learn a great deal about a field I was unsure of using software I could never have afforded to purchase on my own. Self study is how I've learned most things in my career but there really is something to be said for having access to experienced real-world professionals.