The problem is not intel selling high quality goods for a low price. The problem is intel using their size and market dominance to threaten retailers into not using competitors products. Intel have been ensuring by force that AMD are not even getting a chance to hit "shelves" with their products. That really is a bad things for everyone.

It's almost what Vista wanted to be...minus WinFS...though they have tried to bodge similar functionality into explorer...

I actually quite like it...as far as I can like windows.

Its the best version of windows so far - even including server 2000

I'm not really selling it am I :(

Not only that but Opera provide a repository for Ubuntu anyway. So not having Opera available is just poor config.

Sorry who has been screwed over here. I don't remember Sun stopping me using the code as well. Just not their changes to the code. I have lost nothing - you have lost nothing - the original author has lost nothing. We have all gained with Sun, Microsoft etc having better code.

But what has *BSD lost because of this? At the end of the day there was no theft involved. Its like the whole file-sharing and "stealing movies" argument. The original "owner" has not lost a thing. On the plus side the world has a much improved OS that has a chance of breaking a monopoly.

Yes because at 100mph I want to be looking down at the dashboard to see where the volume up button is. Using a standard tactile dash I can feel it and I can feel if I've missed it. I don't have to take my eyes off the road.

A lack of tactile interaction is not just "a little odd" when it comes to some functions. Such as on a cars dashboard; braile etc.

My first though was that is would be the only option for the Tesla Model S.

For your first point. No-one could do that anyway if there are enough people fighting for "the good cause". Yeah yeah I know - idealistic.

But your competitive advantage should ALWAYS include the support you give to that software. If no-one can better the support then there is little to no reason why anyone should branch. By saying that someone will "steal" your code if you don't GPL it means that you are worried that with your code people can offer things that you cannot. As the author of that code you are the one in the best position to know how the code works and the best way to work with it. If someone wants to expend money going through your code to add a new feature - then add it quicker than they can. Sell support for the software and people will come to you because you have all the new features and good support. Your competitors will end up null in comparison.

Of course this assumes we are talking about whole programs here. If a competitor steals say - a networking stack - for an OS. Then you should feel proud as a developer that your code is better than something they could produce and that their OS has benefited from you (hopefully) good work.

So I my log servers rack fell over yesterday and the HDDs are fecked. So sue me.

Honestly there is almost no way anybody can guarantee any digital data is available tomorrow - one of a million things could happen. Especially if your backup policy is not as good as you hoped it was.

There was a card released over a year ago, the killer NIC, that did all this and more. It basically ran traffic shaping to save people some 5ms on their gaming ping times.

Except when your playing a game - Driver dies, windows holds the game reboots the driver and continues the game. The game being in the same state as before kills the driver. Windows holds the game reboots the driver and continues the game. The game being in the same state as before...

You end up having to ctrl alt delte kill the ame just to get back to a working system.

Nup...

Any decent torrent client will seperate the tracker data from the torrent data. Ergo - send all tracker data through the proxy and have the torrent come in as normal.

Now all anyone sees is a few small requests to random ips and a lot of big requests to other random ips.

Its no different than being a tor server. Or any other proxy server for that matter.

I provide a service to others...since when was it illegal to provide a service...even if the service is used for illegal purposes that is NOT my fault. Find the guilty partner and prosecute them. Isn't that what my tax money goes into?