"""Good luck trying to talk your way out of paying part of your check if the waiter made a rude comment or spilled your drink when the tip is built-in."""

I'm not sure either case makes much sense to me, maybe for cultural reasons.

1. In the first case, I would simply not tip them at all - the correct response is to complain and refuse to pay to have your evening ruined, until at the very least you get a revised bill, if that happens a lot, the waiter will be dismissed.

If you *do* feel like paying in polite silence because you don't want to make a fuss, you have simply covered overheads, not tipped.

2. If a waiter spilled my drink, I would expect another drink - I don't see why an accident would affect how much I tipped them, if they were polite and apologetic and corrected it.

I can't honestly *conceive* of wanting to punish a waiter for a genuine accident - that just seems selfish and spoiled.

Mainstream PC makers in the United States have chosen to do a number of things with new PCs, including Windows Vista, Linux (RH and Ubuntu) distros with wine packages, and invasive shovelware the novice end user can't get rid of without thermite.

Dell being the most obvious example in the US, there are others outside the US (like Acer, for example).

In the light of these widely varied good/bad decisions, what they choose to "make a business out of" or not demonstrates.. very little.

Understandable because the key word in the original assertion was "always":

"Native clients will always run faster than Wine."
...*snip*...
"what happens when Wine supports DirectX directly?"

1. A *LOT* of software looks in /etc/passwd because you can get uid, gid, homedir etc. from there (try grep $USER /etc/passwd - go on) 2. Passwords are very rarely stored in /etc/passwd these days. 3. I've written scripts that touch firefox profiles for stuff as innocuous as protocol handlers..yeah, erm. 4. Why is AppArmor a link to an ubuntu wiki? Are Ubuntu about to invent AppArmor like they invented networkmanager et al?