https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2 was pretty decent. as was a Mac. Or Amiga. They all had decent software stacks. Microsoft did the best job selling to businesses as well as consumers. But when there was competition, I often chose non Microsoft stuff.

Also, You were not using outlook in 1993. It didn't exist back then. The first versions came out around 96 or so. It was only bundled with the rest of office in Office 97, before that it came with MS Exchange.

Actually, the dealer for me is about half as much as Jiffy and doesn't push any unneeded upgrades. If you want new wiper blades/lights/etc, you have to ask.

That's not Java(TM)

Every phone is already integrated into facebook to a certain degree. If this were the only phone to ever allow you to see or update facebook, then yes it would be a smashing success. However, it is not. Even the marquee feature of the the "facebook home launcher" is available on other phones. There is nothing the phone can do that others can not.

Pish Posh, not breathing is old hat. I modified my lungs to work on CO2. I used a weird trick that the UN Hates! Click Here to find out More and vote if we should impeach Obama for Benghazi and Being a Muslim Terrorist while working from home! You'll save thousands! I know I did.

Makes sense to me. The best engineer NASA ever had was German.

I think they are trying to emphasis that the thieves only needed to fool the machines with a card that could easily be detected by the average joe as fake. Its pretty obvious fact. Its stupid news reporting. Local news does it all the time: " Woman who died choking on hot dog did not expect to die watching a baseball game, in fact none of us do either!"

Uh, yes, yes they do run on the platform of not raising property taxes. And they often win. Then, when confronted with the reality of the financial situation, they sometimes go back on their promises, confirming their ascension to the rank of politician.

Maybe I did get Win 8 ( non pro) can't keep up with the Version naming scheme.

I don't know, I bought a legal OEM version of windows 8 Home Pro for under a hundred. That's cheaper than I could have found for windows 98 ( which was the last version I bought before activation). I think I got windows XP PRO OEM for just over a hundred from a shady website.

I think the price decrease ( if there has been one) is more of a sign of increased competition from Macs ( and linux to a certain extent), than the activation reducing piracy.

What the hell is wrong with you? The Java plugin is the last thing you'd want to install anywhere...

Its like trying to find a way to run visual basic scripts on Linux.

I stand corrected. Reddit and Discus do use Posgress in a capacity I thought only Mysql was used. Yahoo, it should be noted, also has a large mysql presence.

Thanks for the info.

Because many do write articles about their architecture and the tools they use. Twitter, facebook, google, yahoo, flickr, and other smaller ones have talked about their architecture and the tools they use. I've never come across one that mentioned postgres.

Postges seemed positioned to be an oracle replacement, while Mysql always seemed to be Web OLTP focused. I haven't seen a real useful comparison in years. So much has changed performance wise in Mysql, that it would be worth another look. One of the new features which really speeds up Mysql under heavy load is the thread pool, which isn't available in the free version oracle gives out. I think Maria DB has an alternative written by the same guy who now works for Maria.

Despite all of the Postgres users saying its much better, I'm not aware of any large websites using it as a backend at scale.

Plus, you can power hammer stuff to get it to stay. Any day using a power hammer, is a good day.