Companies do not need to buy computers with XP to install XP (even W2K). They can either buy an OLP license that allows them to install XP or they can buy a computer with W7 Pro OEM license which also allows them to install WXP.

This guy is saying - for a $200k i can buy a Ferrari. You are saying - hey, you can get a perfectly good combine harvester for less money.
Hard disk gigabyte price vs SSD gigabyte price is not the issue discussed here - performance is.

Apple doesn't allow that? Just try searching Chrome in the app store.

Really? 32" monitor under $599? Or you are talking about a TV?
Anyway please post prices on all your equipment you are posting here - "laptop, 32" monitor, wireless keyboard/mouse, mixer board, 5.1 speaker system, and much more". I would really like to see how this adds up to less than $599

Apple is not expensive for what it is. There are other reasons to bash Apple, but price isn't it. Apple just does not produce low end plastic things. If you take a computer, phone, whatever with comparable specs, it will usually cost the same if not more from another manufacturer. And no - i don't consider CPU to be the most important spec in a laptop. Build quality and materials are just as important.

Erm... no. Firefox Mobile OS is not what you think it is. It is not a "web browser IS an OS" thing. It is an operating system for mobile devices that runs all its userspace programs in HTML5. It is scheduled to launch nex year with several phone manufacturers already promising devices with it. When you buy a phone with it, you are not going to say "my phone runs The Internet", you are going to say it runs "Firefox Mobile OS" (unless they change the name).

Firefox os they are talking about here will run on mobile devices. It is not meant to run specifically software out of the cloud. The HTML5 apps might be local and probably many (if not most) of them are. After all, there are plenty of situations where you want to use your mobile device in a disconnected environment. For example listening to music in an airplane. Or taking notes in a forest. Etc.

The only problem i see with his best side is that many of the projects end up generating more money to people involved. By chance some common causes are nudged ahead too, but still. http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/07/the_gates_foundations_leverage.html

Isn't the current iphone display produced by LG? So - essentially the news is - "LG will produce a display with even higher resolution than a previous LG display!" But that doesn't sound so sensationalist as "LG takes on Apple" approach?

Please show me a thinkpad with comparable specs and half the price of either $999 air or $1199 mbp.

Hmm. Tried: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file +centos
says:
No results found for libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file +centos.
Results for libssl so 0.9 8 cannot open shared object file centos (without punctuation - Learn more)

It seems it considers + to be just punctuation - as there are definitely pages that do not contain term "centos" in the results.

And the hits themselves are totally different than using:
libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file "centos"

Slashdot ate the tags. I meant tags like: ireallymeanusethiswordasitis and /ireallymeanusethiswordasitis

I have been doing this. But its a pain in the ass to type. In the old days i could just type 2-3 words and press "I'm feeling lucky". Then you needed + in front (one keypress per word) to get some sensible results, now you need apostrophes (2*(shift+keypress)*word) - and the results are getting worse and worse at the same time.
What next? I suggest putting tags like around every word.

For me, google has got progressively worse in the last year or so. It treats everything i write as a typo and all words as optional by default. Just yesterday i got 0 relevant results on the first page (query: insync uninstall osx).
And I don't get this natural language thing at all - i find it much easier and faster to type two-three words (google *used to* give me relevant results) than to form full sentence. Speaking with a computer is even more cumbersome and a sentence takes even more time than typing a couple of words even if the computer gets it right.
But maybe i am just becoming obsolete and google is not meant for searching obscure commands or error messages at all.

Here's an idea - route port 22 back to the connecting host. Then it will do a recursive bruteforce.

How do you get 1 in 6k chance in winning a lottery of $200+ million? The only way to get that is when 6k people buy a ticket to a draw of $200+ million - i doubt that this has ever happened.

And no - having tickets in MULTIPLE one-to hundreds of millions odds does not raise your odds in a particular draw. Thank you for proving the "people who can't do math" part.