I'd love to believe that, but it just doesn't seem realistic to me. What interface could possibly be the best UI for a fast, precision pointing device + a fast, accurate keyboard, and simultaneously be the best UI for fat, slow, inaccurate fingers jabbing randomly at a tiny phone screen?

The only way I can see it happening is if we get a lot better at non-invasive EEG interface devices, but that's kind of a pipe dream at the moment...

Printing is an operating system function. Just install cutePDF, then everything that can print can print to PDF.

Congratulations on winning the internet access lottery. For 95% of Americans, anything better than 5Mbps is only available as a top-of-the-line business connection and is priced accordingly.

I think you're overestimating EA's desire to engage in actual market analysis. Piracy hysteria and frantic demands for ever douchier DRM come from corporate management and are based on ego-driven assumptions or political agendas. Factual data about who's pirating and who's buying have no relevancy whatsoever.

Aaaaand this is why we can't have nice things.

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I went to graduated high school 15 years ago, and even then we had so much GPA inflation that I ended up with a 4.15 with zero effort. Figured the AP kids would be getting, like, 6.7's or something these days.

You know it won't happen. The US government could literally start putting jews in concentration camps and 99% of the population would keep on watching Reality TV, listening to talk radio, and laughing at all the "nutjobs" who think the US is turning fascist.

The very second I want to do something and I find myself unable to do that thing because I'm still on windows XP, I'll switch to 7. Hasn't happened yet.

How is this relevant? Are the Old Software Gnomes going to sneak into my hard drive while I'm asleep and re-arrange all the bits?

Uhh... "eat"? Mmmmmmm... . toooort.... *droooool*

For 1/10 C it's more like 1 minute to 1.05 minutes, but your point stands :)

There is a risk that Disney will fuck up the new movies, but there's also a chance that they will make them good. What are the odds of either outcome? I have no idea, maybe it's 99:1, maybe it's 99.999:0.001. All that matters is that the chance of a good movie from Disney is not zero. No matter how bad the odds are, it's still a gamble worth taking because we have nothing to lose.

Let's assume Disney does produce 3 shitfest movies full of musical numbers and talking animal sidekicks. What exactly are we missing out on? It's not like Lucas was going to produce ground-breaking pillars of cinema if he kept the license.

"Too much choice" is strictly a developer problem. If I'm going to be releasing big budget, AAA software on a given platform, I need to know that 99+% of that platform's users will be able to click the icon and have it "just work" with no extra effort, and I also need to know that binaries I release today will still work 5+ years down the line, on the latest version of the OS at that time.

On windows it's easy to meet those requirements. On Linux it's nearly impossible, because "Linux" isn't actually an OS, it's a hundred different OSes, each with it's own GUI quirks and package availabilities and update schedules and hardware compatibilities.

"You will go to hell" is only coercive if hell exists. (it doesn't)