I mean I just expect him to be terrorizing the world from a giant mechanical spider to which our weapons are useless

expect? I would link to the videos but the NDA prevents it.

I don't do business based on my personal hatred.

This, a thousand times this.

I would rather crunch numbers on a chain gang in Alabama than use an Oracle product ever again.

I think we can walk and chew gum at the same time.

You must be new here!

I see Cyberdyne Systems shares are up today.

a third agent responsible both for earthquakes and full/new moons

Yes - its agent Gibbs - don't you watch NCIS?

give users more flexibility

I, for one, look forward to someone bending and twisting a few of these new, flexible twits.

I do see a number of Surface machines in my local university library.

So that is where they all went!

Here in the UK, I have only seen them in PC World.

You are omitting the main reason: CAPITALISM

Windows is for profit and thus hurling money into advertising, and funding massive amounts of illegal anti-competitive activity are very profitable.

Linux is not for profit, and there corrupt contracts or EULAs, is no big spend on advertising, and no years of illegal and criminal underhand deviousness, and without data-slurping, no backhanded subsidising of bloatware filled laptops, or bribing software providers not to support the competition.

If Joe public and his boss understood the extent to which they are being stiffed, things might be different.

As my aged grandmother used to say "the adverts speak very highly of it, dear" (which, as usual, and was her intentional sarcastic implication, suggests that no one else does, unless bribed).

In my day, they had writers who would develop and plot and lure the consumer in with a film which appealed to them.

What was it like when dinosaurs roamed the earth?

The end user wants a single system that will send all their personal info to Microsoft/NSA/Random offshore criminal hacking gangs.

Hence the high rate of adoption of Windows 10.

More to the point, if they are chucking out this amount of RFI, it is hard to see how they comply with European EMC requirements.

Some people need to learn about screening and earthing.

A lot of the posts are going to be speculative or outright wrong

You mean there are some that are not? I am shocked, I tell you, shocked!

I may even have to switch to Twitter to avoid any risk of sanity!

Without violence and conflict everyone would sit around getting fat and having sex until the population surpassed the available resources.

Not if the mosquitoes have their way.

Most Americans believe this is due directly to US oversight and military dominance.

I am not sure many others believe it. Americans seem to have little idea what goes on beyond their borders.

Replacement parts for older cars are only available for as long as stock lasts

In Europe, replacement parts have to be available for 7 years. Otherwise you don't get to sell the car here at all. (Probably why some models are not sold here).

Most of us are shocked that the same rule does not automatically apply to all electronics. The objective is to reduce land fill.