No, he's not. He said:

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The first raises the question, the second makes a blanket statement. Whether the question is valid or not is up for debate, but it is not like in this article Eric Schmidt has said he's going to start taking steps to curb users' privacy beyond complying with legal requirements, nor has he said that privacy is immoral.

Click on the drop-down menu button to the left of the search box (which contains the Google icon if Google is currently your chosen search provider). Pick you desired other search provider, or click "Manage Search Engines" to do more complex stuff, and you're done. This is in Firefox 3.5.4

But what decides where the line is? If this theory is true, why didn't we get hung up before the discovery of the electron?

Because reusing existing spinning disc technology means saving a little money now and not improving on the future, whereas making a whole new, probably much better technology means expending more money now in order to save money in the future.

Also, cars have a much more standardized interface than software/OSes. In general, someone who's driven a Buick for the first 10 years of their driving life doesn't worry about stepping into a Mazda and not being able to find the controls, beyond something like a one minute quick scan to see that pretty much all the controls they expect are there, and in mostly the same places. Software, on the other hand, doesn't even dream of being that standardized.

Neither does most junk food.

It's my experience that open source upgrades don't utterly bork things between versions, nearly as much as Windows does. You just keep your system up-to-date, pay attention to your distro's news bulletins, and things go alright.

Then again, I am an IT professional with only about 3.5 years of experience. Perhaps my elders can chime in with more experience.

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It's what the bots crave.

That does not somehow make it right, IMHO.

That would be a more fitting name for the Higgs Boson if it didn't already have a name.

How did parent get marked troll? That whooshing sound is deafening.

Go deeper. This points to a major systemic flaw in a large portion (>50%?) of humanity, in that on the whole humanity would rather have ${whatever_it_is_they_want} rather than have less but more quality stuff. Not everyone has as much attention to detail of computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, scientists in general, etc.

I wish I could believe in that, but I think it's the beginning of a monopoly. Then, in about two decades, people will finally wise up and start to do something. Then, another decade will pass, and a better successor will finally take hold.

The same thing is happening currently in the software industry.

120 mm fans are actually pretty quiet. At my uni's computer labs, we always buy cases with 120mm fans to keep the roar down.