By being connected to a global base of knowledge, many problems can escape local optima solutions.

Thats the gist of it. Details and implementations vary and matter, of course.

Try this link : https://www.google.com/finance...

Notice anything interesting ? HTML5 for the win, yes

where do they siphon pics from though, legally?

Get a slightly intelligent router, something that runs OpenWRT or so, and take care of the issue at the source.

Well, it would be really awesome if i could actually disable or at least throttle something called 'Google Play Services' that keeps running the battery down on every single device

I mean, everyone is fed up with the constant flood of instagrams and faceblogfucks of the burritos or squirrels you had for lunch today. German ingenuity just figured out the way to cull the flood. Copyright for the common cause !

Or put simpler, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics.

I think you are reading too much into it. There really is no face on Mars.

odf is good for collaboration...

Maybe, but it pales in comparison to cloud hosted collaboration suites. Which coincidentally, Office365 and Google Docs are. I don't know about the msft latest stuff but i'm a gdocs user and trying to collaborate on an offline copy of spreadsheet/text, regardless of the format, feels like stone age and does have extra overhead costs, too.

Uh .. price, i.e. TCO is obviously the key decision factor for many users. It has to play a significant role for these decisions.
TFA is saying its cheaper to run MSFT products at large scale than the open source counterpart. Thats the news, its all about price.
Obviously its not a 'fair match', as TCO of cloud hosted product in this decade will very easily work out to be lower, but given a choice between the available options ..

But can they play Brockian Ultra Cricket ?

That kind of precision strike assumes you go undetected and will not be intercepted. The problem is that radars evolve faster than airframes nowadays. If you go read up on the recent F-35 news, there are reports about both Russian and Chinese being able to pick up each and every currently fielded 'stealth' jet.
Radar vs stealth is always going to be an arms race, but you can obviously deploy newer radars faster than jets. And also, in a contested airspace in a complex theater you might have radars sweeping at every angle - assuming you are not fighting goat herders, but then you don't need trillion dollar jets either.

Guns are effectively a thing of the past in air combat.
Until your existing missiles are all rendered ineffective by some countermeasure, like directed energy point defense weapons.
It sounds sci-fi, but Russians were actually actively investigating capabilities of their AESA radars to electronically kill missiles like a decade ago. Doesn't mean something like that is feasible any time soon, but 'obsolete' and 'thing of the past' are claims of hubris and omniscience

Shoot happened and failed, the 'scoot' part happened because Iraqis were obviously massively outnumbered. Only a lunatic would stay and try to take on 8 Eagles with a cannon.

The point is, BVR didnt work specifically against an old but agile adversary. Which means assertions that 'dogfighting is obsolete' should be questioned, and obviously, again - you do not always get to define the way you prefer to fight