*Computers are both. Depending on form factor, the tablet just might be a more convenient tool for consumption.

Seriously, can we stop with "the PC is going away" bullshit? The PC isn't going away, the reason sales are down is because PC's are *FAST ENOUGH* for most people for their daily jobs. As a *geek* I'm still running a 3 year old system and have no desire to upgrade. Nothing I do is slow on the system. Every game I run can run full screen on my 24" monitor with my GTX465's in SLI.

The #1 reason PC sales have slowed is that there is no demanding new technology forcing upgrades. In the past, every year a new system would drive me to want to upgrade because the speed boosts were noticeable and meaningful.

You could've looked at the shady history of OCZ and guessed what their failure rate would be. They had about the same success in the memory market in the 90's when they were first formed.

Since when? Every large software vendor I've ever worked with breaks their product up into modules and do standalone module testing and once those tests are passed add it to the main code line and do additional integration testing from there. Why on earth would you not test a software project of this size until it was completed in it's entirety? While there may be modules that you can't go live without, there absolutely shouldn't be a requirement to start from the ground up because one module failed testing... That's just bad software architecture. Healthcare.gov should be a prime example of a system that can be modularized. Hell, half the codebase is likely code to talk to external API's for the various government and private institutions they're sharing data with.

Welcome to the twitter generation! Timely news is better than accurate news after all! My brother in law who, while being nearly my age, appears to love the twittterverse literally told me he'd rather have inaccurate news instantly than accurate news he has to wait for. I don't even know what to say to that.

s/draconion/a violation of the 4th amendment

Although the current regime doesn't seem to think the 4th amendment is actually legitimate based on their current rack record.

Right, except for the part where it already exists in parts of this country, and is rampant in foreign countries. If your excuse is really that you think you shouldn't pay taxes on anything you don't personally benefit from you should probably look into finding citizenship elsewhere.

Good god I hope that's a bad attempt at trolling. People having even shittier service is an excuse to find 768k DSL acceptable? Again, richest nation in the world. If we spent 2% of our annual defense budget on building out a broadband network, it would be done in two years. Who pays for it? We do, with taxpayer dollars. Run back to a central aggregation point and give the US actual competition at the POP instead of granting monopolies on last-mile.

I'm whining about the fact that downloading an ISO is an overnight event. This is 2013 and we live in the richest nation in the world. There's absolutely no reason we shouldn't have had this entire country wired with fiber a decade ago. Wait, there is - we spend tens of billions of dollars dropping bombs on innocent people in the middle east only to spend billions more rebuilding their countries instead of spending it on infrastructure to improve our own country.

I don't really care if you use a scanner with windows XP, just don't fucking complain about problems with a decade old OS and expect the mfg to give you free support/code fixes as the OP apparently thinks should happen.

And that's Microsoft's problem, why? If you're dumb enough to have a core part of your business based on a product that you didn't either:
A. get guaranteed updates to new OS versions for your life of the product or
B. a promise of source code access should the vendor either go under or no longer wish to provide you binary updates

your business deserves to fail.

None of those reasons explain why the product can't run on Windows 7.

Why was there "no prior art" if Rambus simply took the JEDEC committee's ideas and created patenst? There should be VOLUMES of prior art from the JEDEC meeting minutes to people's scribbles in their notepads. You're seriously telling me that Rambus was the only company attending the meetings to take notes? And they managed to get their patents ramrodded through before anyone on the JEDEC committee decided to take their first note? Ya, no.

What Rambus did (and lost in court on) was create additional patents beyond the technology they already had to try to stonewall the JEDEC members. THAT is what they lost in court on. The JEDEC members STILL licensed technology from Rambus because they had legitimate patents. They were simply hoping that when Rambus joined the committee, they would donate those patents to the group. As for DDR being patented, if it's so obvious why wasn't there prior art again?

The private sector isn't known for cutting costs in the short-term at the expense of the long-term to make numbers look good? BWAHAHAHAH! I guess I'll just assume that you're slow trolling at this point and stop. That is literally the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard stated. Private sector isn't more guilty than government of making bad decisions for short-term gains. Now I've seen it all.

As for unfunded pensions and healthcare benefits: remind me again exactly which private company that provided pensions 20 years ago hasn't reneged on that promise? Answer: none.

First off, it wasn't bogus - which is why micron lost. I'm no lover of RAMBUS but they absolutely had valid patents, and they did sell product. They lost the battle because their product was ultimately inferior and more expensive, but that doesn't change the fact the core technology behind DDR memory infringed on their ideas. As for how it's still valid - it doesn't matter. If you infringe a patent, get sued, and the patent runs out before the court case finishes, you aren't magically exonerated from all the years you infringed on the patent while in court. Doesn't work that way champ.