Then use the closed source drivers? Don't see the problem here.

This is just more rumor mill junk! Reads like a hit piece put out by a competitor. Do none of you remember when games on the Sony platform broke because they were hacked and PSN was taken down?

http://www.1up.com/news/capcom-always-online-psn-drm-decided-case-by-case

http://www.ps3trophies.org/forum/announcements/39949-read-psn-service-down-some-titles-unplayable.html

Something you might not notice initially, but is a welcome fix is that games like StarCraft (the first one) run without as many issues in Windows 8. In Windows 7 there are all sorts of problems with the graphics, partly I hear because of explorer.exe taking over the palette.

based on what I'm reading about windows 8.

Which is the real problem. Most people I've seen who say it's bad haven't even used it. In the future, it should become the de-facto Windows gaming iteration, as they cleaned up and refined the graphics systems.

Which only just recently is getting a Linux port.

but right now even a 2009 iPhone runs the latest ios 6.1.2

With none of the new features, and they may have even removed a few! So awesome!

eBay takes 2 cuts if you use PayPal. They bought them so that they could control all the money.

Check out the AOL Lira patents and the discussion around them. They cover scroll bounce in some methods and it is believe that Apple's patent is merely natural evolution of them, ie not patent worthy.

http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?FT=D&date=20031002&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP&CC=WO&NR=03081458A1&KC=A1&ND=4

The re-examination communication (here) only discusses the first anticipatory reference explicitly (the AOL "Lira" patent). That patent describes an overscroll bounce in the context of web page elements, where defined elements that are misaligned with the edge of a particular window are "snapped" back into alignment if the user attempts to move the selected content outside of the of the "snap point."

bonus link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/110860729/12-10-22-doc2079-1-cv1846-ExhA-FOA-381-rej-19-et-al

There may not be a real example, but if you would read on the subject you would know that AOL patented the idea first. For a web browser, even.

You mean the one that got invalidated as a patent?
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/76470.html

Are the police going to start writing like teens? What of the problems of autocorrect?

I've seen reports of this too. It all points to a bug in iOS calendar handling with Exchange. It repeatedly tries to update the calendar even though it errors out. It tries multiple times per second.

I've read about a problem like this. It was a bug in the handling of exchange servers for the built in mail app. Removing and re-adding the exchange account seemed to fix it. The bug will randomly reappear at times and there is no known cause.

Sager has a bunch that you can configure with Windows 7. However, quite frankly, this all reminds me of the Vista hate that was perpetrated by people who had not even used it.