I agree with this wholeheartedly. It is a commercial agreement to prolong support and development of a component that is vital to HP's line up. Is the Itanium not available to Oracle to use in its lineup of servers?

>> enabling more powerful smartphones, tablets, computers and gaming devices." So we can expect any battery powered device to last for 4 mins, compared to the 4 hours one can expect from a dual core mobile phone?

FYI, this is how it works in Hong Kong. Tax calculator.

>> something about computer fixing that seems to completely annihilate the social norms concerning asking people to exercise their job and/or job-related skills for free

Not just computer fixing... pretty much everything IT related. Free pirated software, free e-books, torrents, name it and you'll see the same guys who're complaining about no one paying them for their time, enabling John and Jane Doe to rip the rest of the industry off. Want to bet that the guy who is ranting installs Adblockers, uTorrent, DVD rippers and burners so that his "clients" can get everything for free on the internets?

Lets see if any other profession encourages this free culture? Doctors? Lawyers? Car Mechanics?

Can someone atleast google the nickname / login of the person submitting the story. http://www.google.com/search?q=slshwtw

Hey Baby... can I land my SAV in your pocket airport?

Care to share what this looks like? Several servers connected to a SAN with 150 drives?

>> When this occurred I went from buying multiple books a month to torrenting them
At what point do you get that sense of entitlement that you're allowed to pirate content? If you cant afford it, move on.