The fact that you're not already coding and Ruby couldn't hold your interest makes me wonder exactly what you want to do and why.

If you plan to learn to code mainly as a necessary step towards creating your dream RTS then I hate to piss on your fireworks, but you're wasting your time. It's just way too much dang work and frustration for something you don't find interesting and exciting in and of itself.

If I got the wrong idea and you do find coding interesting, forget about the RTS for a while and just worry about getting good at the basics.

I always felt that B5's s4e06 needed to end with Sheridan leading the allied forces in a chorus of 'Yub Nub'.

No question here, I just thought you needed to know that.

Perhaps making Google look bad isn't their #1 goal. Righteous indignation is cool and all but they're a business.

If you're gonna argue from zero evidence, just claim that the CPU itself is pre-rooted and be done with it.

That's not even remotely what a TPM does.

iOS 7-UP?

SocMint: Plusfresh post-eat. Holeful. Buy.

Despite moves by government to get Google, Amazon and Apple to admit they make sales in the UK and US, and therefore should pay tax on these earnings [...]

Tim Cook seems to claim the opposite:

I can tell you unequivocally Apple does not funnel its domestic profits overseas. We don't do that. We pay taxes on all the products we sell in the U.S., and we pay every dollar that we owe.

So is he a bare-faced liar, or is the article summary bollocks? Sources please.

YOU SONOFABITCH!

At this point there are quite a few counterexamples out there - Apple users who are clearly not dumb, nor suckers, nor computer-illiterate.

Seriously dude, it's time to let it go.

1. The OS and online infrastructure costs $0?
2. Selling a product at a profit equates to "premium" now?

Second. The article makes it sound like the guy discovered the Mandelbrot set hiding in the tube map.

Nope, not new; I just never felt the need as pressingly as I do right now.

Make some concrete, testable predictions - say, market share, profit share, stock-price or something of that nature - and I'll see you on 8th Feb 2013.