Sorry, but I have to nitpick here. IE3 was the first browser where Microsoft actually tried. It was so beyond anything that Netscape/Mozilla offered, feature- and interface- wise. IE3 is the reason why IE is still in the lead 10-15 years later. Posting this from Chrome ;)

The problem here is that individuals already have paid for their coverage through taxes, and essentially have their money stolen by having this coverage taken away at the whim (no matter how justified) of the bureaucrats. I'm all for immunizing people, but this FAR from fair and sounds like extortion.

Online shops already have a lot fewer expenses, if they don't have to pay sales tax like brick and mortar stores have to, their customers will be able to save more money. Less tax is paid, the less will be spent on bombing innocent foreigners, closing down legal drug dispensaries and more of the more money will be left in people's pockets to spend on a decent human society (unless you are one of the rich who doesn't give a crap about ordinary people).

Absolutely not true. Most users will be more than OK with a tablet. These things are designed for web, e-mail, and casual games; and let's face it, this is all the average user wants to do. Spreadsheets and word processing? Save that for a desktop at work. Getting back to topic, this is not to say that Intel won't be able to capture the market. With the best r&d in the market, I believe they will soon become number one chip maker in the mobile world.

Obviously the users of these programs didn't find them "useless," as they chose to use them. It seems like you're trying to paint anything as useless if it has no utilitarian value. However, there are tons of things in the word that have no utilitarian value, but people chose to use everyday. Think jewelery, sports television, theater. The people who produce them are not evil in any way, they just fulfill the market demands. If it wouldn't be this MBA class it would be someone else.

Jealous much?

80 million? I think several hundred thousand are just my throw away accounts.

so... 79 million?

This information looks more useful to the convenience store owners and clerks than to MIT educated statisticians. Even knowing the system, it's very hard to just stand there and pick out the tickets that you like, the store clerk would usually just rip off the first ticket from the roll. On the other hand, the clerks themselves have a lot of time to study these. I can image a pretty profitable scheme where the clerk would sell you certain tickets for extra 50% or so...

No one (well, almost no one) seems to mind when a mobile OS requires a faster processor, but the number of cores is suddenly an issue. Wake up and smell the 21st century. The not-so-recent improvements in performance come from the number of cores and not the clock speed. And it looks like this is the way it's going to be for a while. Get used to it.

oh yeah, leave it to government to ensure free speech online. Oops, the link doesn't work. I wonder why...

A beta version of a software crashes? Surely you must be joking!

Well, good for them. Everyone is complaining how the "big, powerful banks" are destroying our financial system. Well, here are some comparatively small guys trying to shake up the established players and suddenly they are being prosecuted. This is the kind of free market the government is afraid of, not the pseudo-free monopolized market we get through regulations and government control.

Apple just invented printing!

Interesting, given that Intel is already producing CPU's and are part of OHA, are they looking to build an Android phone?

If I recall correctly (and I'm not a big fan), it wasn't something like United Federation of Planets, who tried to colonize Pandora. It was a private company, whose assets were probably destroyed during the last part of the movie. So "humans" would have a tough time coming back with 100x more firepower.