Ages ago Microsoft and HP released a pocket PC, 8 inch screen, black and white, alpha numeric display 16 lines by 60 characters, no graphics, MS-Office built in. I think it was called the Windows CE. It crammed the full desktop (ok ok desktop of win98) UI in to that pathetic little machine. Was a fiasco, it could not do anything well.

In Windows 8 it slapped a six inch phone UI based on touch on a full fledged 28 inch desktop/laptop screen. Again a fiasco.

It used to talk about "multi-platform support", which on close examination turns out to be support for both WinNT and Win98. Now it talks about Universal Apps. But it is only Universal "Windows" Apps. Again Universal "windows" Apps but limited to Windows10. Where do they come up with names? Do they play some kind of buzzword bingo?

Next they will come up with different editions, from ultra tied down dimwitted home user edition all the way to super professional ultimate platignum azure eye-candy business corporate executive edition.

All these antics used to irritate me so much those days. Now I laugh at myself for having taken them seriously.

Already an American billionaire had figured out who the aliens are , and what they do, Got into hot water for saying it openly instead of using euphemisms.

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This is not known to many techies: Ganesha is the Lord of the Legion of ghosts and spirits. If you start all your projects with this simple prayer: " Oh, Thee clad in white clothes, with gray skin and four arms, Thee with the elephant face, we pray to Thee to remove all hindrances to project we are about to embark on. Aum! Peace, Peace, Peace to All", Ganesha will make sure there are no hindrances.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

If a fire is detected in the cargo compartment, we could release very large amount of carbon dioxide into the hold and vent all oxygen out to extinguish the fire. Cant do this to passenger cabin. But I am not sure if airplanes use such a fire suppression technique for the cargo.

Why is a difficult to extinguish fire safer in the passenger cabin rather than in cargo? Especially since there are oxygen canisters above the luggage rack strewn all along the passenger cabin...

Is it some devious logic that if the battery kills the owner first, there would be some justice? Or it would gradually dawn on to the passengers that these batteries have very high energy storage densities and are dangerous, slowly they would stop carrying them?

They depict a large fearsome creature in blue. Not at all like a friendly yellow bird. So it is not Big Bird.

Security is becoming more important than getting things done. This excuse of "this security update will break something I need" has been over used to keep security holes open. In this connected world, your security hole is my problem too. It is like storing a 50 gallon drum of gasoline in your garage. You might have excellent reasons for doing so, but it is a fire hazard for the neighbors.

All OSes should fix security holes and update them. If you can't use the latest security updates, stay off the internet.

But in the real world, someone will publish a hack using hosts file to misdirect microsoft.com to unreachable ip address, and many will blindly search for, "security update broke my very old Adobe photo shop" find such hacks and install them blindly.

It is difficult to keep your home safe in a city filled with pyromaniacs.

Look guys, if I told you once, its like I told you hundred times. I told you what to do when earthquakes are predicted. It worked for Memphis. It will work again. Proven remedy.

These hair trigger traders! They deserve all they get. Jumping at every whiff of every rumor of every eavesdropper near the watercooler. haaa haa haa.

Wait

I hear laughter, not sobs. Whats going on? Let me eavesdrop on them.

Hair trigger trader A: "Hey Jumpin Jack, how much did you lose in that fake story about twitter?"

Hair trigger trader B: "Come on, Frenetic Fred, you and I know both very well, we never lose any money. My index fund customers, 401K investing idiots, they lost may be a couple of billions. INBD. There is more where that money comes from. Next month they will dutifully add another 50 billion for us to play with!

Looks like you were the only one, in this thread, DL.

But most Americans think they will soon be in the 1%. Even the guy living in that leaky trailer in Alabama making 8$ an hour.

Their Queen. Is she one? At this age? Come on, you got to be kidding.

Before you say all these things, let us make sure you got 15 million dollars to invest in Australia. Otherwise it could just be sour grapes.

Also USA also has this visa program. It costs much less, just 5 million USD, need to create just 10 jobs or so. You can fire them as soon as your green card comes through.

The question is not whether it could do it in three hours or not. The question is, could it do it at economically viable prices?