You can coddle your children into having a lot of allergies if they live in a sanitized environment.

I used to have a mild allergy to cats. That doesn't stop us from having 9 cats because it completely went away with exposure to cats.

My only Windows 8.1 computer is an Asus Transformer tablet. I updated it to 10 twice, the first time choosing the 'revert' choice that Microsoft gives you for 30 days.

The second time, I had decided "I should give it a second chance" so I did the Update again. After updating, though, I set the tablet aside. A half hour later I noticed it was still glowing (folded down into the keyboard). Power management was not working at all. So I tried to figure out what I needed to do to get Windows 10 to update for power management. Was there a driver update missing?

I couldn't find any driver updates, and tried to force it to switch off, because nothing I could do would power it off. Once I started fighting with it, it blankscreened and would do NOTHING anymore. I had to do an [F9] System Restore, wiping the tablet clean, to put Windows 8.1 back on it.

I'm pretty leery of putting Windows 10 on my Windows 7 desktop machine. I can't find any information that says that Virtual Box works. It will run, but the 'loopback' (wrong term for it?) networking interface doesn't install according to forums I've read, so I would loose my virtual Windows XP that I use to run some Win32 applications that quit working with 32 bit Windows 7. There is a virtual PC system built into Windows 10 Pro, which is what the desktop would upgrade to, and Microsoft implies that it runs any other OS, even Linuxes (NetBSD?), but I've liked Virtual Box and have my VMs all set up and running the way I want. And who knows what else would quit working. I have some Win32 applications that still work in 64 bit Windows 7 that I suspect might not anymore.

But the affluent population of India is about the size of Japan, some 120 million people. They have been making do with truck-battery-inverter contraptions, small gasoline generator sets etc. They would probably form the wave of early adopters who pay for the early fixed costs of solar panel factories.

Anybody who understands the culture of India knows that the upper castes would see to it that somehow the spread of solar panels in India would be done in a way that insures the affluence would not spread far.

Ironically, racist pieces of shit who go around calling black people 'niggers' are the ones who are the real niggers in the world, because they're largely who are perpetuating so-called race-related problems.

I'm glad you agree that Rap Artists are a big part of the problem.

Just share some links showing your project had news coverage like hitchbot had.

Right. The measure of a project's value is 'new coverage.'

Turn in your nerd card.

and Crack pots in the #2 US maybe #3 will still prattle on about freedom and mankind's ,US ?, dominion while continue hastening US irrelevance

So you're saying the triumph of totalitarian industrial states over freedom-loving states will please you?

You definitely don't mean Microsoft. If anything, with regard to privacy and data mining, Microsoft is becoming more like Google. They've still got quite a ways to go, though. Google's whole monetization scheme involves data mining users' data. Microsoft is just trending in that direction.

I have an 8008 in a piece of equipment I could go in the other room and turn on. And 3 or 4 full tubes of Harris (Intersil clone) 6100s if I want to run the PDP-8 instruction set. My Kaypro has an 8080 in it, and isn't just a gutted part either.

You're welcome to mow my lawn if you're just going to stand there.

I found I couldn't download a component of the Android SDK in our local public library on their wifi. Not on a library machine, it was my laptop. The URL linked from within Eclipse raised a flag with something in the filter at the library. It was rather shocking.

I really like Windows 8 on my Windows tablet, though. And on my phone. I've tried and now kicked Windows 10 off my tablet. They screwed it up for tablet use. It's better for desktop use I suppose, but Windows 10 is a step backwards for the Tablet.

What is the 8 bit operating system that was written for a 4 bit controller? The 4004 processor never had an operating system that I know of. CP/M started out on the 8080 processor. Possibly the 8008 I suppose.

Incidentally, I spent much of the 90's writing software for 4 bit microcontrollers. In assembly language, starting up from the reset vector. Operating systems are for casuals.

I tried Edge on my Windows tablet and wasn't impressed. The controls were smaller and harder to manipulate. My IE shortcuts were not imported to Edge, so I would have had to start all over.

I installed Windows 10 on my tablet, tried Edge, then uninstalled Windows 10 from my tablet.

The changes in Windows 10 make it more of a desktop OS, but make it much harder, imo, to start the programs you want on a tablet. The large buttons on the Metro 'Start' menu are gone. Apps open in floating windows. Essentially, everything became tiny and hard to manipulate with the touch screen.

It wasn't enough to keep Windows 10. Luckily there is an 'uninstall' option and my tablet is reverted back to 8.1 now. You have 30 days after upgrading to revert. The revert was quick, it only took about 20 minutes.

Aside from being meaninglessly recursive, it's also a definition I expect the FAA to ignore.

I would hope so, too, but Amazon is a large and powerful business now. It isn't the offbeat bunch of nerds selling books via the web and email that it was in 1998. The biz people have climbed aboard and there's government for them to spend on.

Aaaaand, I have now installed and uninstalled Windows 10 on my Asus Transformer Book.

My first observation is that they've3 nerfed all the advantages of Windows 8.1 on a tablet out of Windows 10. You need to poke at really small spots on the screen to bring up the Start Menu. The big friendly start buttons from Windows 8 are gone. It's probably an improvement on Windows 8 for desktop machines. It's rather bad on a medium sized tablet. It would be really really bad on my Dell Venue 8 Pro (8" x86 Windows tablet).

The uninstall was really fast, it took about 20 minutes to rip Windows 10 off the machine and bring it back to 8.1. According to the Uninstall Screen I accessed, it's only possible to revert to the old version of Windows for 30 days after you've upgraded.

I'm glad I uninstalled it and went back.

A better question would be, why do Chromebooks even have keyboards? Can't you stab at the ads on the Google page with your finger or the huge keyboard-sized touchpad?