There are so many forks to so many distros out there, the goal of getting a lot of people to coalesce around one distro so Linux can gain some momentum becomes a pipe dream. (as if it wasn't already)

I think it's probably a case of egos more than anything

We have two companies admitting failure here, B&N and MSFT.

It's too bad about the Nook, they are nice devices. Nook should have won over Kindle, but B&N didnt have the foresight years ago to get into the everything business the way Amazon did, so they were always going to be muscled out of the market.

Microsoft on the other hand will probably just try to make money off Nook's patent portfolio, given they have failed with their "Surface" (which, near as I can tell, is some kind of break-dancing tutor device.)

You should call up the guy who made all those Liberty Dollars.

Bitcoin reportedly tried to buy off a number of politicians, but the pols reneged when the bribes were provided in some sort of opaque pretend-currency.

I don't put used cellphones in the garbage to go waste in a landfill, I throw them at baby seals.

I'm not talking about trading it in when the next version comes out. I skip many generations of things. But, for example, there are plenty of iPhone 3GSs out there which are still doing fine on the original battery. By the time it totally conks out, I'll probably be able to just replace it with a 6.

I've used a lot of iDevices, and in my experience battery replacement isn't necessary. By the time your battery is suffering, the device is up for replacement.

I could feel this trend coming in the air tonight.

I'm not exactly sure what is supposed to be special about Surface, but people only appear to dance with them. I could see a lot of screens getting broken.

Of course, voting for a non-primary party will in fact be a wasted vote until such time as that party garners enough votes to challenge the primary parties, at which point we'll have three primary parties which are all just as bad as one another, instead of the two we have now which are just as bad as one another.

Probably that Google and Microsoft resemble each other in many substantive ways, including a declining respect for user privacy.

Google can get away with it, because they're our favorite company around here. If Microsoft did the same thing there'd be a 1000 post thread here about it.

Say what you will about Apple devices (like the iPad), their devices don't run hot and they are silent or all but silent.

So why did Apple have those things right 5 years ago, but MSFT still can't do it?

I think all 5 Playbook users are probably "meh" just like the rest of the world.

They should have called the new OS "Blackberry 3000AD", imo

I thought I heard the presenter telling people not to even look at the new Blackberry about which he was speaking.