There are a number of hardware debates here, but for most people what matters is the software that exists and how well it runs, given that the general VR display and tracking is roughly the same between Rift and Vive. But the Rift software is much better than the Vive software. Blame it on exclusives, but the fact remains. And the Oculus engine is better than Vive and runs smoother and with better detail on any given hardware. This is largely because the Rift has "ASW" and "ATW" and the Vive only has partial ATW on only NVidia. For most users who don't have hardware religion, the Rift is better in practice.

I think while Vive has better tracking for large rooms, it's no better in the "just works out of the box" category. While the SteamVR store is more mature than the Oculus one, the actual runtime software is much better on the Rift. It has ASW and ATW and Vive has only partial ATW support, only for NVidia. As a result, software on Oculus runs smoother for any given machine. This is well known.

One person out of a 200 person company is a Trump fan and you associate that with the entire product? Grow up.

Stand back people, we have a rabid Vive fanatic here. The fact that he's provably wrong should validate that.

Vive has better large scale tracking than Rift.
Vive has very slightly better FoV than Rift (a couple degrees).
Rift has better screen door effect. This is well known.
Rift has better audio.
Rift has better microphone. This is well known.
Rift has a sharper screen to the edges. This is a provable fact.
Rift has better ergonomics.
Rift has better software, hands down. Some people blame this on exclusives, but it's still a fact.
Rift runs better on hardware (smoother, less judder, etc.), because it has Async SpaceWarp (vive doesn't) and has better TimeWarp/Reprojection, which doesn't exist on Vive at all on AMD hardware.

I've had mixed luck with CFL bulbs, but good luck with LED bulbs. 10+% failure with CFL, 0% failure with LED so far.

Unless you've tried it, how can you judge it?

FYI: EA strongly suggested that Respawn compress their audio, and offered the engineering to do it, but Respawn said no.

True, and consider that the hard drive too will be damaged by driving it for long periods of time. The situation seems to be a little more gray than simply "any broken speaker is Dell's fault."

How could OS X not be based on an previous Apple OS when it looks and works 90% the same? The primary difference it that tool bar it has that previous Mac OS didn't have.

That's not how the hack worked. The hackers had software on the POS machines that read the RAM of the machines and when the card info was briefly in RAM during the transaction the hackers grabbed it.

A better question is one of why these POS machines don't have a more locked down OS that allows only signed processing from running. XBox, Playstation, and iPhone have been doing this successfully for years, so surely commercial POS machines could.

But there was still a browser exploit involved, right? What version of what browser was being used?

I've been using that ribbon for three years and still hate it. Every time I need to find something I haven't used in a week I end up spending a minute poking around that ribbon trying to figure out where it is. The menus are far faster to deal with.

VC++ includes nearly all of C++98 and includes pretty much everything that matters to any professional developer. As for being riddled with bugs, you don't know what you are talking about.

The fact that John Carmack uses and prefers Visual Studio should prove that you are the noob here.

Your "man up" attitude is why Linux will never succeed.