That Microsoft is in fact the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
Yes - this is "Windows 7 - Share and Enjoy!" Mod parent up.
...due to the nature of computers, they use base 2. If people can't deal with that, they probably shouldn't be using a computer in the first place.
Because using an iPod, or Microsoft Word, or Facebook requires mathematical literacy?
I am one of the many people who remember learning cursive but now never do it (and I'm 39). Every once in a while when bored I will write out the alphabet, just to prove I remember it.
Being first is overrated anyway. Maybe those of us who were laid off after the Individual-Desktop Data merger could be considered the very first victims of the dot-com bust...
"Many companies refuse to use GPL code because of its viral nature."
This would explain why BSD is so much more popular than Linux then.
Isn't Mac OS X the most widely distributed Unix-like operating system?
A list is only as strong as its weakest link. -- Don Knuth