It's not just about trying to prove someone wrong. But few people want to spend their energy on proving someone else to be correct, although that is arguably the best kind of science we can do.

And suppose you do try to prove them wrong, and fail to do so. What's in it for you? Too few papers are submitted or published where the author's hypothesis is shown to be flawed.

This seems bit like Coca-Cola selling 20oz bottles for $1.50, 2 liter bottles for $0.99, and then getting mad when the customer pays for a 2 liter, drinks 20 oz, and throws the rest away.

Boo-freaking-hoo. Somebody is getting paid to set up these pricing schemes, and part of their job is to take into account the consequences of non-obvious cost structures.

Many sciences, not just the ones you listed, have at least some problem with reproducibility. Verification isn't nearly as sexy as coming up with a new idea.

During my academic days, all the focus was on new work and literature reviews, but only one professor seemed to (defeatedly) care about verifying the results of other researchers. That doesn't get the funding.

Everybody has an opinion. Yours just happens to be the one that's wrong.

Not sure about the desktop side of things, but Microsoft is building a Windows "Nano Server" edition that is about as slim as it can get. The way I understand, their goal is to release this version with only a PowerShell remote interface and the ability to host ASP.NET, but eventually they'll allow the user to layer on additional optional components to build a system with more features.

I'd love if they did that for the desktop...

Not entirely. The UX has been converging across the platforms, at least, much more today than 2 or 3 years ago.

How many Obj-C apps have been rewritten in Swift? I can see new apps and old apps that needed major rework, but most companies aren't going to invest the time it takes to port from Obj-C to Swift with little or no gain in market share.

Because Windows 10 goes beyond mobile. It is phone, tablet, phablet, IoT, laptop, desktop, table, Xbox One, Microsoft Band.

And, if users bite, they get a free upgrade from both Windows 7 and 8. Microsoft's goal as stated in the keynote is to have 1 Billion Windows 10 devices in the next couple of years. If they even come close to half that goal, there will be little question of running iOS or Android code through Microsoft's rebuild and deployment process. If they reach their goal, Windows 10 will probably become the first development platform, leaving iOS and Android as afterthoughts.

Windows 10 universal applications will be able to run on all devices, including phones, tablets, desktop, table, Microsoft Band, IoT, Xbox One, etc. If you create a W10 universal app then it will run everywhere. Even the same exact binary will run across all these devices (although, of course, you'll need to make your UI responsive enough to make sense in these environments and with different input mechanisms).

Legacy desktop applications will pretty much be limited to desktops and tablets under Windows 10.

This should be much less confusing than RT was. RT had different capabilities across the same form factor, while Windows 10 will have the same capabilities for the same form factor.

In Soviet Russia (taking into account Mach's Principle) uncontrolled spaceship rotates you!

What part of gstoddart's post didn't you understand? I don't see any mention of iOS or the app store in that post.

A bit overly defensive, eh?

I think the question is, what does it blend? You know, when you make some blender blades out of this stuff.

Then perhaps you need to learn what the word "any" means. You were definitely using it wrong.

Really you are just rooting for better choice. The fact that it is Verizon who would happen to gain from your happiness this time should not deter your hatred of them.

But that's because advertisements are intrusive and may allow external companies to track you.

Channels are different, since the only way you ever see a channel is to change to it. (And many set-top boxes let you block or otherwise unlist any channel you want, if bothers you that you even see it in the guide.)