Oddly, changing the version numbering doesn't actually make the product better. Who'd have guessed that?

I dunno, MS-DOS 4.01 was slightly better than MS-DOS 4.0. So I'm for waiting for Windows 10.01.

You can get an ISO for a stripped down "Vista Lite" on TPB, so I imagine someone will offer Windows 10 without the bloat and call it Windows 9.

Just because Windows 95 and up used MS-DOS as a loader doesn't mean they weren't real OS's, and even when I run Windows for Warehouses 3.11 and launch something like Wordstar in a DOS box it doesn't strike me like Windows itself just another DOS shell...

If 9 is just 7 with a requirement to have a Microsoft account to activate it and update it, then why will it be GOOD?

I can buy lots of brand new business class machines with windows 7 on it right now and Dell will not stop doing it as long as 90% of all the corporations are demanding it.

And when these 7 boxen come off lease you can scoop 'em up for a song.

9 will be more like 7 than 8 was, so it will be 7sp2.

Have you seen the screenshots? 9 is just 8.2, but 8 is now a dirty word like Vista, so 9 it is.

Science fiction isn't really about the future, it's always about right now. That's why we have the spectacle of Star Trek and 007 "reboots" that deal with urban terrorism. That's why the last Captain America looks like a Snowden fever dream. That's why Star Wars 7 will focus on the melting of the glaciers of Hoth and the "war on women" by remnants of the Old Empire.

Actually the biggest issue these days is when people go "Where's the phone on my phone?" People look at their cell phone and wail, "Where the hell is the phone on my phone?"

What they don't tell you is anyone can do this in a few hours with a port scanner, at least the IP4 flavor of cyberspace.

Where did vacuum fluctuations come from? That's like sailing across the Atlantic and running aground at Land's End, then asking "Where did that come from?" It's just there.

I disagree that atheism has nothing to do with science, they share a common procedure, in that hypotheses are rejected when they are demonstrably false. An omniscient god is demonstrably false when he is recorded as calling "Mulligan" on creation and staging a do-over after the Noahide flood.

If Lucas had created Star Trek rather than Roddenberry, then the Original Series model at the Smithsonian would have DS9 era warp nacelles ret-conned on it and the phasers could never be fired until the shields were below 50% strength because of course Kirk never shoots first.

Not every patent office flunkie can go on to write important papers on relativity.

If the 5S and 6 have comparable performance, it means the 5S remains a long term option across OS upgrades. No need to keep a tablet in your pocket...

Is that a tablet in your pocket or are you just moving higher on the Mohs Hardness Scale?

There's no sharp boundary between the plain and Mt. Sharp.