The actual legal standard for a monopoly is the ability to set prices without regard to the offerings of competitors. MS was ruled a monopoly on PC OSes because they could set the price of Windows at several hundred dollars (retail) and ~$50.00 for OEMs even though their competition, (linux, the various open source BSDs, etc.) cost zero dollars.

At the time of the lawsuit, open-source OS's weren't even on the map as competition for MS Windows.

Vista on my MacBook semi-regularly just locks up for about 10s at a time. Not even the mouse/touchpad is responsive. I've never had this occur on any other machine with Vista. It's Apple's fault.

Even more of of a huge benefit: sex would be more fun.

Google et. al. can support pro-democracy movements... when they aren't in important emerging markets like China.

As opposed to...

Want to grow up to become an athlete? Sorry, you didn't inherit the right genetic mix to predispose you to becoming tall / strong / better cardiovascular function.

Want to grow up to become a model? Sorry, you didn't inherit the right genetic mix to give you a slender physique, blond, and blue eyes.

Want health insurance? Sure, but it's going to be more expensive FOR EVERYONE regardless of your genetics because some luddite outlawed screening for genetic diseases.

I suggest playing the number 4 8 15 16 23 42.

Every 5, 10 years or so, hold an auction for the right to administer each gTLD.

You did give permission, dipshit. They offered you the release notes and asked if you wanted to continue the install.

Forth is ONLY really useful as an embedded language. The only reason for its existence is that it is even easier to implement (and has a smaller runtime) than C.

I would just LOVE to, when installing Windows, have to sit through a dozen screens asking me "hey which browser do you want, hey which text editor do you want, hey which music player do you want, hey which chat software do you want...". NOT. FUCK YOU EU, your whole court system is a bunch of money-grubbing morons.

People keep complaining about this, and the example is simple: Terminator time travel DOESN'T RESULT IN A STABLE TIME LOOP. No ontological paradoxes in the Terminator universe. Rather, when you go back in time history just starts rewriting itself from the point you went back to. It works just like the time travel in the latest Star Trek.

Have you ever read the code for that? It's impenetrable! (I've tried to port it to other OS's.)

That's not true at all. They didn't want freedom of religion because they'd just left England (many of the colonists set up their own theocracies as soon as they reached America). They wanted freedom of religion because they were all different flavors of Protestant, and didn't want any of the other flavors to be able to persecute them.

But it's goddamn useful. It's a business model that suits plenty of software providers and fills a need of many users. Which goes to show that demanding all software be Free is counterproductive.

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