And, do it for less than another half billion freaking dollars!!

Oracle's involved, so good luck with that.

Raiden: "You got enough?"

Snake: "Absolutely." *points to bandana* "Infinite ammo!"

And if the answer is "everyone gets equal financial support," then what prevents 1000 candidates from running?

And if the answer to that is "Nothing", have we really been harmed?

...and that is why you don't call business an "ecosystem".

Wait in line? Hah! They'd just strip your name off, make an ACA healthcare exchange server out of it, and LOL at your insignificance.

Apparently not one ping only.

I'd happily throw money at Intel graphics, once (a) they actually do catch up to the Big Two (they are currently not even anywhere near anything close to something that so much as resembles half their performance or graphical feature set), (b) I can afford them, and (c) they stop considering soldering their new chips to the board, or make more chips with "Windows 8-only" features.

Buying someone's chip is taken by that someone as support for their policies. Those in (c) are two that I hope I never have to support, and I don't want to pay a "competitor" that's just aiming to out-monopolize the monopoly.

"While the book lacks much about his thoughts on the whole Spore thing (presumably due to various contractual agreements with EA), the book is still somewhat illuminating about Wright. 6/10"

Won this war, and started this war.

I'm with you...is Google even using valid HTML, or HTML5,* in the problem pages? Last I checked GOOG was great at breaking both.

*I did not repeat myself.

Good call! Wouldn't want those highly advanced scientists at al-Qaeda to reproduce it at the gene level or anything.

It's probably due in part to the whole KDE Free Qt thing. It keeps Qt free in the event Qt isn't...um...kept free. It's pretty nice.

You mean "only non-Slashdotters"? People here routinely (and rightly) swoon over ad and cookie blocking.

Exactly. Besides, their move to cable misses the point of why people were cutting cable for Netflix in the first place.

(Cutting both, of course, would be better.)