But this isn't the case at all. Perhaps you need a slap in the face just to knock some sense into you.

And further, this is actually an exciting development, it shows more of a commitment to keeping its older devices modern.

Apple supports mobile OS upgrades for its devices for at least 3 or 4 major versions. Android manufacturers tend to do the opposite, you'll be lucky if you get even minor version upgrades through your 2-year contract period. (My Android got point release updates for a few months, then surprisingly one large update about 1 1/2 years later. I seriously doubt my phone sees anything newer and I still have months left on my contract.)

WP looked like it was firmly trending toward the Android upgrade model, what with even new WP7 barely being supported the second WP8 was announced. Perhaps, at least for first-party devices, we are starting to see support timelines that look more like Apple... and that should make any user of WP8 devices happier.

Unless the summary changed, the words

does not parse the way you say it does. There is no situation, other than not reading, that parses the way you suggest.

And just as much as you are harping on it potentially not being free, I'll harp on the wonderful possibility that it could be free! And you know what? Neither of us know anything about their plans because they just now kinda-sorta gave us a hint as to the future roadmap of these devices.

Lay off the FUD.

How about this scenario:
1) Dollars Bank has a contract with Edward in the form of a savings account to hold his $1 million in cash.
2) Faye sues Edward because he destroyed her $1 million house.
3) Edward only has $5 in his wallet.

What can the courts do here? Using the logic above, I'd be tempted to say that Faye can only get the $5 he has that isn't under contractual agreement.

And sure, perhaps banks are special in this regard, but it wouldn't take much thought to find a loophole that didn't involve a "bank".

The difference? MySQL allows more than 30 characters for table/column names.

Actually they are doubling the allowed app size in the starter edition:

Yes, that is a rational answer... but not the only one. "The problem doesn't exist", "the problem exists to a lesser degree", "this problem doesn't exist but a confusingly similar one does" are all also rational answers to many questions.

Advertisements should always be marked as such. I do not trust any service that does otherwise. (Not that this was the only thing keeping me from trusting Facebook.)

Would people complain as much if Apple called it the Apple WristComputerWithTouchScreenAndBluetoothSpeakerAndHealthMonitoring?

I mean, that's what it is. But Apple's marketing decided on a somewhat better name.

That isn't the same thing at all. It might be if the artist is contractually/legally restrained from ever drawing new characters, but obviously that is not the case.

I was NOT alluding to creator's rights. I was alluding to exactly what I said before, the employee/employer relationship and significance of work. Stop trying to make my analogy something it isn't.

That was an analogy and was not intended to be identical in every way. The similarity is in the relationship between employee and employer, and the significance of what someone might consider the "main work" when in fact it is not.

Why do I have to explain this?

By that logic, the burger flipper at McDonald's should be able to pocket all the money McDonald's brings in.

Don't ignore the fact that the employee's contribution is only a small component to the success of the business. Just because someone comes up with cool superhero drawings doesn't mean he alone also brings those to market, negotiates comic book, movie, TV, and other licensing deals, creates the content and publishes that content, or any of the hundreds of other jobs that go into the production including managing payroll, paying bills, etc.

The file system manages data deduplication via garbage collection. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-u...

Data deduplication is supported in Windows Server, although I have no idea if it will be directly supported by Windows 10.