You obviously haven't actually done this with many games on the PC. Whilst technically you should be able to, more often than not the only way to play the old game is via virtualization or some level of emulation. Or by buying it again from GOG who have re-written the parts than don't play nice with the newer OS's.

Evan buying old games from Steam is iffy and usually needs work-arounds to get running

Whilst I'll agree it's not up to HDD standards yet. There are two very important things to point out here.

1. Endurance gets worst as the size manufacturing size gets smaller. 19nm is the worst, not the best for endurance.

2. The massive speed benefits more than make up for the size disadvantage. Use SSD's today to store data you have backed up, or as a boot drive for an OS that's easily replaceable, for simply for a cache drive like Fusion drive or the Intel Windows drivers give you.

Don't exclude a revolutionary technology just because you need to be a little more careful how you store your data

For some definitions of "supported" I suppose. Minimum useful support came in Win98 SE and read proper support came with Win2000

...... and real

And this will only make it worse, if you were a Joe Sixpack who saw this headline on a news site and currently purchased say, 50% of your music/vmovies and pirated the other 50%.

Would you continue purchasing given the chance your computer will be locked down, or would you just pirate all your music/movies now to be sure they can't install any rootkit?

Yup, because before dropbox there was a simple and effective rsync client for windows that could and would work to keep some folders in sync across all your computers and be publicly available without needing to setup your own server. All for free

Except there wasn't.

Exactly, a decent sized RC plane will give you way more options for long flights (then the battery swapping isn't an issue)

Nothing with any payload capacity in the multi-rotor family can stay in the air for 30mins

To give you and idea, a typical hobby quadcoptor with little to no payload has a flight time of ~ 10mins.

Various competitions are held to make quads with high flight times and people get 60-90mins in them, however those could never carry any payload and are doing nothing but hovering

That's true on a 32bit OS, on a 64bit OS an entire 4GB space can be given to a 32bit game, since the kernel doesn't need to reserve 2GB for itself to map video and everything else

Firewalls can and do block incoming traffic. The only machine allowed to make outbound connections is the SMNP trap server, and it can only connect to internal SMTP server.

Sneakernet is the problem, electronically securing systems that must send electronic alerts, not so much

The better question to ask, is how are manufacturers ever going to be able to offer 100w from a USB port. Do we really want our computer PSU's to have to be able to handle another 20A on the 5v rail just to be able to offer a single 100w capable port?

What about your TV or anything else that ghas a USB port? One of the reasons USB is so popular is because you didn't need to re-engineer your entire power supply and all it's rails.

Ever tried putting 5v @ 20A though a PCB trace?

Apple had a 12 month exclusive on it, it's available on anything now but as is common with Apple, nothing they touch ends up as "the standard"

Intel was using fibre cables for pre-release demos/trade shows etc, but I don't think they were ever released to retail. I'm not even sure they were using the same connector as those that were released

Just because a company folds it doesn't mean there isn't a market for the goods they sold.

If Dell or HP fell over, someone else would step in to fill the void, sure they may not get quite as big as either HP or Dell were, but there is still a market there to service, and that market wants Intel

You're missing all the fun then. Call a Canadian and American and see what happens :)