Apple, back in 1998-1999, was on the brink of bankruptcy. Even the early years of Jobs return, Apple was putting out colorful plastic, underpowered computers. It wasn't until the introduction of the Ipod, and Apple's redirection into the consumer device market, did Apple dig itself out of its 1990's stupor.

Did reality prove you wrong? Hasn't the Red Hat stock grown in multiples of its 1990's value? Did she sell it in the early 2000's?

I'd say it is clearly more regional, but yes the places in which the "celebration of street crime/being a thug" occours, is often in areas in which there are high concentrations of African Americans. Of course there is the problem of when location is ignored and stupid assumptions are made. IE the white kid who grew up in the projects with a deadbeat dad, is considerably more likely to wind up in a gang or around violence than a black kid who grew up in a suburbs with wealthy parents etc... Of course in this case, both are irrelevant. Stupid accidents are stupid accidents, Playing with dangerous things, such as explosives (or mundane objects that will convert into explosives), or minor weapons without propor supervision, deserves a slap on the wrist, something to set in a note that you need to take care next time, and then move on. Neither of these kids deserved the book thrown at them.

Which means Windows and OSX. They will not make a linux or BSD plugin, had they wanted to stream to those platforms it would have already happened.

... for electing Obama.

Check out what Obama want's Bolden to do. Direct quote from Bolden:

"When I became the NASA administrator, (President Obama) charged me with three things," Bolden said in the interview which aired last week. "One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering."

Their "foremost" task is to make Muslims feel good. He literally said that. Yet he still heads NASA

Thanks, jackasses, for electing Obama.

Companies might have to start issuing license keys in this manner for their s/w to get around Apple's stubbornness..

- Download app for free from the store - On first launch, app sends you to a webpage where you can buy a license - Copy-paste license key into app (or something like that)

Apple's basically messing with the user experience by being stubborn.

There is a larger issue at hand I'd expect... subsequent billing... as services like SkyDrive, Office 365, Netflix, etc aren't just used on one device... and tend to be paid for on a regular cycle.

Letâ(TM)s take MS out of it... letâ(TM)s say you buy an iPad, download the Netflix app and sign up for an account (something I do not believe the app supports)... by doing so Apple gets it's 30% cut... each month in theory.

A year or three goes by and you decide to wipe your iPad and buy a non iOS device... in fact, you no longer have any Apple device in your home and now watch Netflix through a Roku or PS3... should Apple still be getting a 30% cut each and every month until you cancel the subscription and re-subscribe?

...how much it has to do with the fact that AMD already makes CPU/GPU combination packages(and seems interested in making more), while Nvidia has nothing of that sort except their 'Tegra', which might be a snappy mobile part...

NYT journalist?

Here's some fucking news, you cannot tax an economy into prosperity, unemployment is increasing and the cost of fucking hamburgers is going up thanks to Obama and all the socialists elected and supported by the NYT. They do not report news, they spin and transcribe what the elitists in government tell them to say. That's all.

What I do is none of your fucking business.

I'd be interested to know how you can separate words like "free" and "open" (as in "free" and "open source" software) from ideology.

Why would someone use anything other than Chrome or Chromium on any platform?

I wonder how you spell "whoosh" in Australian.

Windows 8 has a real chance at beating iOS/Android in the enterprise, which eventually makes it a challenger at home also, and this is in large part due to the ability to run Office - and *the full Office suite* at that. Why would Microsoft want to give away this advantage in exchange for short term Office sales?

Sometimes it's difficult to compare Apples to Apples. "I'd like to Max out my RAM. I have an iMac" "Sure, but what version? That makes all the difference for what RAM it can use" "Um, it's got a black back and I bought it in 2011 from a friend who upgraded to a newer Mac. I don't see a version number." "Call your friend and find out when it was purchased from Apple"

But seriously, is there all that much difference between any of them? Just because we can trace these two churches back to their wacko founders, doesn't mean the other older churches weren't founded by wackos too.

I have one of these TVs, and one major problem is that each manufacturer is trying to create a captive audience for their own variety of apps.

As a result, the number of apps available is pathetic, and almost all boil down to TV stations vanity apps