I know, seriously. We need Windows on this. What will I do without 5 minute start-up times and without having to restart the thing twice per day??? My crochet work will seriously suffer. Also I am going to be pissed if I get one of these and I do not have 25 pieces of crap-ware I have to remove before the computer becomes usable. Those crap-ware cleanings are an integral part of my budhist training.

And wait. What happens after I own it for a while? Will it slowly slow down and degrade until I have to buy a new one after a year? Or will it run just fine like I hear those "Lin-sux" computers do. Are you telling me I might be using the same computer for many years? What are we, savages?

Electromagnetic force can be easily and cheaply measured here on earth and is thus measured all the time. I find it hard to believe that we have had the wrong formula all this time and nobody noticed. And if this is the case, and Electromagnetic force decreases linearly and not quadraticaly you should be able to provide experimental proof pretty easily.

iOS is great for touch devices. If someone put iOS on my desktop, it would drive me mad.

I think this really tarnishes the dignity of his royal personage. A US Czar should not be personally involved in such shady deals. He should have sent one of his boyars to do it. Or at most a low level copyright Knyaz.

It is funny how some people keep repeating that "the market resists open source" while open source software is taking over bigger and bigger chunks of the market. Currently open source absolutely dominates web server operating systems, and web server software. It mostly dominates web application databases and is invading in the territory of other databases. It is on the way of dominating embedded operating systems including cell phones. It dominates new programming languages.

So yeah, we do not have desktop domination yet, but open source is doing quite well and it is constantly encroaching on new sectors.

Every interpreter must eventually convert the incoming code into machine code. That is the case because an interpreter must execute the incoming program somehow and the only way you can execute anything on a CPU is by sending that CPU machine instructions.

An interpreter is merely a program that executes another program. The .Net CLR does this, so it is an interpreter. It is also true that the .Net CLR performs an interim compilation step, but that does not prevent it from being an interpreter.

It is compilation but it is compilation that is done by an interpreter. An interpreter is a program that runs another program. The JIT type of interpreter runs the other program by compiling it and executing it while the JIT is running. So yes it is an interpreter, just one that performs compilation as an intermediate step.

A "just in time" compiler is a type of interpreter. I know it sounds confusing but that is the way it is.

Do you have a citation or did you just make this up?

You do realize that for your dumb conspiracy theory to work you have to show that Warren Buffet has actually caused any increases of estate taxes. He hasn't. Furthermore, the owners of Buffet companies usually run their companies for a long time after Buffet buys them, so it is doubtful they were distressed because they could not pass them on to their children.

Warren Buffet is a hero to many people because he actually did something extremely unselfish, for the benefit of the world and Americans specifically. Naturally this is something you cannot appreciate.