I'll say No as well.
Which fucks up the mind more - getting out in the sun pretending to kill each other (and sometimes drawing blood with sticks and rocks) in games where murder was justified due to ethnic group (Germans, Indians etc) or staying inside and looking at pictures of nipples like the kids apparently do now? I don't think we have to worry about them much.

2) Active directory

It looks like yet another person is not aware that LDAP works on a lot of platforms and the MS version is called "Active directory".

Wrong question - It's not about being good, just not a pathetic malware swamp from people that pay do little attention to detail that their global "cloud" network was down for a day due to it being a leap year.
There has been a lot of good stuff from Microsoft but for these problems you only need to find one deliberately open gate for the malware to walk through - or to push the analogy - a bit of reused fence that has rusted out.
A locked down Microsoft system CAN be fairly secure, but you've got to be careful to turn off or not install all the parts that let the side down. A lot of third party stuff still has the single user non-networked mentality that everyone else gave up on about the time MSDOS was first sold.
So it's not that *nix is good, it's that those that put together those systems learned the lessons of the 1980s (or maybe even before) while marketing and expedience trumps those lessons on the MS platform. It's obvious before you even install Win7: the media is fucking upside-down so it looks good in the case but can get fingerprints all over it when it's taken out to install. These people do not really give a shit about getting the job done, so yes, linux and everything else is more secure apart from extremes at both ends.

you see, it sounded like an awful lot of effort to him to learn new names for everything.

You really need to work a bit harder than that to push your agenda. No shill cash for you this week!

File format conversions frequently suck in general, especially with undocumented and deliberately obfiscated formats. In my industry we're sucessfully reading files in from the 1970s on a frequent basis because there is a published standard, yet there is insanity such as some copies of Word97 not being able to read files produced by other copies of Word97 installed from identically labelled CDs (very old example, but a very extreme one that still pisses me off).
A workflow that involves file format changes just for the sake of using different applications that do the same thing is very poorly conceived, if any thought has been put into it at all. Blaming the application for that lack of thought is not a mature response.
Also "innovations"? Are we talking about the same things here? There haven't really been any innovations in word processor+spreadsheet+slideshow for well over a decade, just a few things that have been borrowed from elsewhere and some interface changes. Any leading DTP program from 1989 has more "innovations" than MS Word or oowriter even though the functions of the two different applications have converged - not that it is a bad thing (you want simplicity in word processing and extreme control in DTP), simply that the office suite space is static apart from a few slideshow gimmicks and interface chanages.

with known and pervasive compatibility issues

They are not known and pervasive if NOBODY ELSE KNOWS ABOUT THEM.
Instead of some grumbling which could be mistaken for a vehicle for trumpeting how wonderful you are why not do something that is actually useful and feed the real information (without embellishment and exageration) to someone that can do something about it.
Personally, after cutting through your large supply of bullshit (true or not it's irrelevant and doesn't impress), it looks like you are one of thousands that corrupted an SD card by pulling it out before it had finished writing, and now you've pretended that it's happened a few times, and to somebody else so it can't be blamed on your actions (even if it's a frequent accident anyway).
That's just a guess, but it sounds a hell of a lot more likely than a bug that just keeps on hitting you and nobody else.
You've misunderstood some of what of written above - I was trying to make the point that you've blown your trumpet about being involved with thousands of machines and most likely a lot of people using them yet only yourself and someone very close to you (but not involved with those systems) have apparently seen this. That makes that part of your story incredible (ie. as per the dictionary - not something I can believe is true).
It sounds to me that you are just making up a story to fit your assertion that the program is rubbish. It also sounded very much that you were creating a false persona to try to add some credibility to the made up story, which seemed quite pathetic, because even if it is all true that shouldn't carry any extra weight anyway. I replied because it looked like you'd written an annoying pile of bullshit intended to mislead the gullible and push some sort of agenda.

Wow. You can't honestly believe that, do you? Chemicals can be absorbed.

Having grown up surrounded by hundreds of acres of my dad's corn and soy beans, I don't get too worked up about eating GMO corn, because I know how and why it was modified. My brother now runs the family farm. He plants GMO corn that has been modified to be resistant to the corn root worm. State law requires that 20% of the rows in any field be planted to non-GMO corn so that the root worms have some place to go and don't develop resistance. Because he plants GMO corn, he uses far less pesticide to reduce infestations of the corn root worm moth. I would rather eat GMO corn that has not been sprayed than eat corn sprayed with heavy doses of chemicals.

The problem is that nobody looks at the basic science. And very few people any more have any understanding at all of where their food comes from and how it is produced.

Since we were talking about the RECORDING INDUSTRY here, I had hoped you would limit the conversation to the realm of the RECORDING INDUSTRY and RECORDING music.

The thing that is new is that the musician(s) / band no longer absolutely needs the studio executives, the studio marketing people or the studio provided recording facility / engineers to produce a quality product and successfully market it directly to the consumers. The musician also no longer needs the studio to make the connections to those who need music produced, such as filmmakers and TV ad producers.

Not to be prophetic or philosophical, but it will be in the end like it was in the beginning.

In the beginning, bands formed and recorded music in their garage, with the best equipment and recording technology that they could afford. The collaborated in the best space they could find (someone's garage) and they self published the recording they made. Maybe they made money, maybe they didn't.

Today, musicians can record with (nearly) the same quality in their house as they can in a major studio. Musicians can collaborate over the internet either directly or with the help of a collaboration service that helps musicians find each other and exchange / submit tracks. Musicians can publish their tracks on services where they either get money per track or as a donation model (see http://coryjohnson.bandcamp.com/ for a perfect example of this).

Musicians can self-promote on the internet, and perhaps reach greater audiences than they can through traditional media and distribution channels.

The musicians simply need to embrace these new ways of doing things and be willing to take on these tasks directly instead of having someone else do it (and probably rip them off in the process).

Sure it's nonsense, but I appreciate how the Supreme Court moves slowly and thoughtfully compared to the other branches of government. Perhaps they move a bit too slowly some times but the other two move so knee-jerk quickly most of the time that maybe the SC needs to be even slower to balance it out.