And it still won't be a good idea until those connections are fast, reliable, and ubiquitous and the user won't experience any loss of bought goods if the console manufacturer's servers go offline forever unexpectedly. Then and only then will digital distribution come even close to having the properties inherent to physical media distribution.

You're right. The sky is in fact falling.

Because Xerox cooperate wanted to focus on making copiers, the guys at Xerox PARC invited Jobs over for a tour so that _someone_ would use the tech, Xerox management either didn't see the market opportunity and/or didn't want to invest in it.

The other smartphones can VPN too, the real problem that still exists for all the phones is for the regular user who neither knows whats going on, nor has a server already available to tunnel through.

Good. Maybe that way maybe the US gov't will stop PAYING GE so goddamn much of our money in tax rebates.

Maybe if he stole them for shits and giggles, but the identities of dead infants have two significant properties: They're real identities and they're not in use. If there was another class of people with the same or better potential for clean identity theft, he probably would have stolen their identities too.

but is the VM overhead responsible for the battery life issue?

Yes, piracy does make a purchased content service irrelevant.

Someone please mod this man's discovery insightful!

Until the ever-contracting distance between the different shades of grey in the OSX UI converge.

Only for as long as it takes you to get around to reading the changelist. For the amount you're harping on about being a professional, you would be reading the changelist regardless of the version number delta, right?

"Score: 4, Informative" for a post that ignores the information that Bernie has been representing us as an Independent since the 1980's?

As someone who recently moved here, it basically just means no income tax and becoming a right to work state.

What are you talking about? I can't buy drugs with Hurd.

I've always done that, but with the exception of a professor who wrote the textbook he was using, I've just never taken a course that followed the textbook cover to cover.

Is there any research into what turns affinity for a product into to the need to be a dick about it?