Anthropomorphic global warming. Hee hee.

"Oh yeah, baby. I'm going to warm you up real good. I'm getting all up in your temperate climates and turning them into deserts. Yeah, you like that? Let me put on some Barry White. Now let's melt those glaciers off your top."

I use Creative Cloud, and they actually provide updates *and* new features to subscribers constantly. The retail purchasers only see updates/fixes, and have to wait for major feature additions until the next 18 month cycle. For the cost of Photoshop (spread out across a year) I get access to over a dozen of their products as well.
I'm not a fanboi, and am content to use whatever OS or software gets the task I want to do done. As someone who can't afford to lay out the full price of one or more of these products in one chunk, the 600 dollar a year subscription model is great for me.
Mileage may vary for others.
As for whether they have any incentive to improve the software, if they want to keep subscribers or keep up with competition of course they will improve it. Autodesk products, Final Cut Pro, etc. will be around for a long time to come, keeping the pressure on.

As Americans, we should never take our freedoms for granted. Just glance across the pond for an example of a country at the bottom of the slippery slope.

You don't have to look beyond your own borders. The "Constitution Free Zone", the TSA, warrantless wiretaps, racial profiling. The UK has issues. Canada has issues. So do other countries. But the US is hardly exemplary or exceptional. It's darkly and deeply flawed, disguised by rabid nationalism.

You seem to be confused. Modern medicine hasn't failed him. The body's amazing ability to heal itself has failed him.
His life may end before experimental therapies are available but it will be modern medicine that saves the next person.

Rather than creating DRM concentrate on creating a community of loyal users. Have an open beta. Reward bug reports with credits.
Let users suggest new features in a forum. Keep up a dialog.

DRM is much less effective than perceived value. If the consumer believes your product is worth it they will buy it.
The ones that don't didn't intend to anyway.

Spyro the Dragon had something similar in it. If you used a copied disc you could only get half way through the game :)

The moral of the story is, if you're going to commit crimes join the football team first.

I love my mini. I'm not a fanboy, as I'm happy to use OSX, Linux, and Windows for whatever I want to do at the moment.
My work area was overly crowded and I wanted a solution that would support the Adobe and 3D products I run, so I got the mini. Instead of my big-ass desktop (which went to my parents) I now have a tiny little machine hidden in a cupboard out of the way.
I could have just got another desktop machine and stuck it under the desk, but owning a dog that sheds a cat-worth of fur every day I'd be worried about a power supply fire.

I wonder how different the Glass experience will be for those of us who have atypical vision. I can see fine, but I focus with one eye at a time. I had surgery on both eyes for strabismus as a child. Now you can't tell that my eyes are slightly out of alignment unless you get close and are very observant, or I get tired and they start going off in different directions on their own :)
Anyway, this has caused issues for me when trying to use binoculars (I just end up using them one-eyed like a spyglass). If I had the Glass interface on my non-dominant eye it's quite possible I could walk around and not even notice the interface until I make the effort to bring it into focus.
Makes me wish I had the 1500 to become an early adopter and report on it.

Look at someone like Ann Coulter. Her target audience wouldn't bother to read the book, so why does it become a best seller? Because that part is engineered. The lets Coulter and her ilk make their money on public appearances. An ingenious scam, and doesn't even require writing ability.

I was impressed with the city of Ottawa's bus system in the early 90s when I lived there for a short time. The hubs outside the downtown core were well situated, and the schedules were tight - unlike Toronto where if you are supposed to have 4 buses an hour they'll all arrive at a stop at the same time instead of 15 minutes apart.
The big gripe was that the last bus out of Nepean was at 1230 at night, so more than once we missed it heading back home. More than once a bus driver returning to the maintenance bays pulled over on the side of the secondary roads or expressway to pick us up and drive us into town. My roommate and I only lived a couple of blocks from it. Usually there'd be half a dozen other people they picked up along the way.
Nice employees :)

Engineers are real. "God" is not.

Why is Piriform reaching out when WinApp2's own site says: "This website and its files are not endorsed or supported in any way by Piriform."

Click reply, type "No, thank you."
Send.

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Religion isn't a "practical philosophy". It's superstition and the imposition of doctrine via claims of authority on high.
Religion gives you "demons cause sickness". Science discovers germ theory.