That's why the Xbox 360 console has multiple USB ports for connecting wired controllers and a built-in receiver for pairing multiple wireless controllers. PCs can technically do that too, but it's not traditionally done. The selection of games that support multiplayer on one machine is consoles' big advantage over PCs.

Even if you can't predict the caching mechanism, you can control it in some cases. Issue a sync() call (or syncfs(fileno(fp)) if available) before the copy begins, before every change in top-level folder (e.g. /opt vs. /usr vs. /etc vs. /home), and after every 10 percent.

It'd be just as bad in practice as the infamous "Calculating the time required to copy the files" step in Windows, especially for protocols like FTP where switching to each folder to do the equivalent of stat has a round-trip latency hit and where servers limit the number of threads that a copy operation can use, often to one thread per user.

Case in point: Is SeaMonkey significantly larger than Mozilla Firefox?

No software marketed for home use is perfect on its first release, and tidbits interesting to "a geek" are probably useful for support while taking fewer resources than a full debug build. For example, reviews that mention that "the progress bar stops for a while on discombobulating splines" or "the ETA stops decreasing for a while on discombobulating splines" are a signal to the developer that he incorrectly estimated the fraction of time that "discombobulating splines" takes on end users' hardware, and that the next version should make "discombobulating splines" faster or expand the step's time estimate. Or would you prefer to solve this by giving one manufacturer a monopoly in order to limit the variety of end users' hardware?

The Trusted Platform Module and UEFI Secure Boot specifications were created specifically to allow a program to know what kind of VM it's running in.

A trademark deemed "famous" is protected from "dilution", or use by other parties even in unrelated fields of use.

What company and what city, if I might ask? What did this company say when you asked "What plan do you recommend for people who telecommute from their home office?"

On Linux, DRM means something else entirely. What facility does the GNU/Linux platform offer to ensure that all high-definition video outputs are tee-resistant?[1] Answer this and I'll address your comment about the difference between "care about" and "not obstruct".

[1] man tee

For one thing, Windows since Windows XP has offered the Raw Input API. Rag Doll Kung Fu anyone? For another, Windows since Windows 98 has offered support for multiple gamepads through DirectInput and later XInput. Gamepad users could use the control bindings for the existing port of Minecraft to Xbox 360.

movement [of devices] and changes are a constant factor, making the burden of maintaining reliable routing information difficult enough to a inspire a new routing project, called the Better-Approach-To-Mobile-Adhoc-Network (BATMAN).

Warner owns the trademark for BATMAN, and I'm guessing this trademark is probably famous to qualify for dilution protection.

That and because the vast majority of movies and TV shows aren't watched more than once,[1] making a rental model more viable than a model that anticipates only purchases. Read the BBC's comment linked from the summary.

[1] Except for G-rated animated films, which play into a small child's greater tolerance for repetition: "I wanna watch Sin-duh-weh-wuh again."

That depends on the kid's age and the child labor laws in effect in a given jurisdiction. I don't see anything in the article about whether or not Derrick is 18 yet.

Perhaps these long-term exclusive distribution contracts require the film's copyright owner to do its best to grant such a recourse to a regional distributor.