> Million times easier and more stable. And less fragile or dangerous.

And large. And slow.

Your comment is Religulous.
Your conclusion simply does not follow, atheists have extremely well formulated and reasoned ethics, morals and duties. It is ad hominem deist dogma and misinformation that suggests otherwise.

Ethics and morals need not, and should not flow from some superstitous belief.

Secular ethics has a far more respectable basis than a pathetic fear of punishment by an unproven and unprovable deity, for failing to follow some literal translation of ancient scrolls.

By the way, it's not 72 virgins.. it's 72 fresh olives... were you confused ?

The tin foil industry resembles those questions.

"Be a beacon."

Here's the source comic.

Let's say you're work for a small business or non-profit and you have, say, four licensed copies of Adobe's Creative Suite products. When you bought them, the current version was CS62. Several months later, you've decided there's value in providing these tools to another employee. That's right, you want to give Adobe another $500-2500, depending on the product(s) included. Sorry, Adobe is now at CS63, and they won't sell you CS62 anymore. What's more, the two versions are "sort of" compatible. You can import one version into the other, but all elements may not translate properly. Nope, if you want to add another user of their software, you have to purchase another full license and four upgrades in order to keep them all at the same version!

Did you get a lot of life out of your Photoshop installation but finally decide to upgrade? Great! Check online for eligible upgrade versions. Hooray, it's listed! But wait, when you attempt to install it, it won't accept the license key from your old version of Photoshop. It turns out Adobe's installation path for your version is to call customer service. [insert dead horse about how ridiculous it is to punish your paying customers vs. pirates by forcing them to activate] So you get Adobe on the phone. "We're sorry, in order to upgrade your version, you're going to have to uninstall the product, then reinstall it again with a special command line switch."

Personally, I will avoid Adobe products wherever there is a viable alternative. Adobe chooses to follow the Microsoft example of exploiting dominance in a sector by putting their customers through bullshit those with a choice would never put up with.

Or, for that matter, this Roma. Not to mention this Roma. Tony, anyone?

Reminds me of my vacation to the continent of Rand McNally. Those man-eating hamburgers are vicious!

Here's what the CDC says.

They list warning signs that advise seeking medical care for adults on that page: Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath; pain or pressure in the chest or abdomen; sudden dizziness; confusion; severe or persistent vomiting; or flu-like symptoms improve but then return with fever and worse cough.

Microsoft seems to be subscribing to this idea as well, where you have to apply Vista service packs in sequence rather than the latest being all-encompassing. One might also call this "lazy" programming. I'm inclined toward that school of thought. Good enough!

I have to ask, why are you using Firefox and Chrome at the same time? I could see Firefox and IE if the latter were open for an IE-only site, though those who know use IE Tab with Firefox. But Firefox and Chrome??

The guy who took the phone off my lap on the train uses Firefox as well. Right?

What's next, golfers prefer cars that cost more than $100,000?

Give me a break.

This is a reasonable point. However, you mention that the XP machines are no longer running well. If Microsoft fixes this so their operating systems no longer fail to do simple tasks after a set period, will there remain any impetus to continue upgrading to the latest version of Windows?

The term "committed" notwithstanding, I similarly will not be upgrading to the latest Windows release ever. My laptop, which I purchased to be powerful with discrete graphics, etc., runs Vista fine. Hell if I'm going to pay for a fancy new coat of wax. If I'm still with Windows, it will be because it's included with the next hardware I purchase.

That sounds more like an argument against upgrading to Office 2007, which I think is a far greater stretch for the enterprise customer than Windows 7.