My phone runs Linux. My tablet runs Linux. My netbook runs linux. My Set top box runs linux. My Entertainment Computer runs linux. All by default out of the box. My Email server/Social network/offsite backup solution runs linux. I do keep a Win7 box handy, but even that has a Linux partition.

No CompileKernel WorkOutDependancies nonsense. The only reason I know this (besides being a geek) is by digging in the "About This Device" thingy and reading the kernel version.

When do you think Linux will become mainstream?

Aint that the truth.

I remember incidents where I have said "4 weeks if NOTHING goes wrong and I am not disturbed for any reason." Translated into "4 weeks and I'll put my developers left gonad on it"

Since then, all my quotes for time have been in writing. Nothing like Email for controlling the dialog.

Microsoft thanks you for your astroturfing.

If you train people to click on "Start" to get to something, then it BETTER DO SOMETHING in your new interface. Maybe bring up a tutorial explaining that Metro works different and explain how you get stuff done.

Richards, in public, on company time, wearing a profile clearly identifying what company she works for, making inappropriate and factually inaccurate tweets should not be fired?

Double standard much?

So...
"I've got a dongle so big my desktop falls over when it authenticates" good
"I'd like to stick my dongle into $objectOfAttraction" bad.
"Dongle. Heh heh. He said Dongle" Just plain stupid, and not really funny.

Ok I think I'm with you now.

Erm.. No. Deliverable milestones transfer the risk to the contractor. If I pay $BIGNUM and get Exactly what I ask for, and don't have to worry about it, it beats 3 * $SMALLNUM for "Time and materials" where I accept the risk for it not coming in on time.

I was once offered a development rig with 3 x 24" monitors, and can testify that there IS a limit to the number of screens I am comfortably have. That number is 2 x 24" and 1 x 15" Any more and get disoriented as to where I left that window.

YMMV

As a tech, you are quite welcome with the results you get from your Indian techs.
Redde arachis hypogaea, posside simiae.

Never knock cloud computing. Whilst I am thinking through strategies to crack problems I will often stare at the clouds out my window. This is neither meaningless nor sensationalist.

The nice thing about cloud computing is you can do it anywhere where you have a clear view of the sky. It can sometimes work with just photographs of the sky.

Free publicity :$BIGNUM
$BIGNUM - $LawyerlyChat = Nice dividend.

-$1000 in lawyer costs.
+$100,000 in free publicity across the tech media.
Balance sheet still looking good...

No. In Australia, they tried suing a big ISP (Third Largest) that has an antipiracy policy (If you report piracy to us, we will hand the information on to the police) and found themselves in the highest court in the land being told that to get the information they were demanding, it would cost them $200 per user. Also, that this information must be sought in a timely manner or they would have to pony up for the ISP to cache the logs and traffic streams.

ISP smiled sweetly with it's hand out and racketeers grumbled and slank away.

No surprise that they are now trying smaller targets, that won't be able to resource a protracted fight.

Not lawyer. But reading through the instructions, I would say that, unless you (the developer) have agreed to any of CCleaner's terms and conditions, or encouraged users to do so, you are in the clear.

My reply to them would be thus.

Dear ,

Thank you for the interest in my product.

Please note that I will not cripple my product because you don't like it. I use clear text ini files as imports, . If you are unhappy with our programs' import function, feel free to encrypt your data. There are many libraries for doing this.

Yours etc...

There goes my study. An oblong desk with a stool in front of it and a wall mounted monitor.

For the record, the desk is cluttered with motorbike magazines and raspberry pi peripherals.

Odds are the language in the treaties will be along the lines of "must have copyright laws." If the country continues to have copyright laws but these laws have sane punishments built in (eg, steal a song that is available from itunes for a Euro, be fined 3 Euros. Distribute a song 10 times that is available from itunes for a Euro be fined 3 x 10 Euros)

The general gist of the law they are proposing is to make the punishment fit the crime. There may be a wishlist for shortened copyright periods and registration of all copyrightable work, but they probably won't make the draft.