https://learn.microsoft.com/en... Maybe I am wrong?

Being an engineering CAD user is the one single thing that prevents me from using Linux (and mac). Although I still play around with Linux as a mild hobby.

Sure. But the one thing that DT does well, is,... represent the people that voted him in. ;-)

This has probably been mentioned before, but here goes anyway,.. I think if I was a producer of "digitally transportable entertainment", then I would at least TRY working WITH the pirates to some degree. This is because it seems to me that trying to "beat" the pirates is possibly impossible and therefore futile? ("possibly impossible",.. I like that) [BEGIN LIST] [0] I would make the assumption that people are by default,... nice, fair minded, and not of the typical mentality of the modern day Slashdotter. :-) [1] I would make the product easily and legitimately available at a low cost and at high quality. [2] I would then pay the pirates to advertise this legal option on their sites,.. yes, right next to the porn/malware ads. [3] I would place info on the cost of production on the legit download site to help with guilt-tripping the customer into wanting to pay SOMETHING for the product [4] I would see how that goes in terms of revenue before trying anything else. [END LIST] Of course this means that the producer is making a high quality version of the product available to the pirates, but isn't this a business model that is at least worth trying? I am guessing that I am about to be told that it has already been tried many times and failed, or only had moderate success compared to more ubiquitous marketing options. Also, this is a kind of inadvertent semi-troll I guess. So, sorry about that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... John Wetton from the band called "UK". Sorry, just couldn't resist.

For actual work I like 16:10, preferably at a resolution of 1920 x 1200 or greater and on a 24" display. I find 1080p is really annoying for work, and I haven't updated my monitor for YEARS as a result. I do a lot of "CAD stuff". My personal preferences always seem to be in the minority. Why can't I just be normal?

Why aren't Google, Apple et. al. doing the same as Lavabit and Silent Circle? They should shut down until they are happy that their customers are happy with what they are doing.

Solidworks, SolidEdge or ProEngineer (PTC Creo): If any of these packages worked on something other than Windows, I could be potentially be free of the Windows OS: Until then,...

It will be interesting to see what happens with google glass. Even if they release a product with no camera, the media will still report it as a privacy invading device.

Sounds like a sensible response from the judge. But what is the long term solution here? Maybe there needs to be a mechanism for disallowing "obvious" ideas to be patented. But then there is the problem of defining what is "obvious". There must be some pretty boring/bored patent lawyers out there.

I want a laptop with a 24" screen with resolution of 1920 x 1200 (NOT 1920 x 1080) The 24" screen is going to make it a very large laptop. So be it. Also, I want the keyboard to be as close to the user as possible. And no built in mouse pad. I will always use a wireless mouse. Why is what I want never available? I must be a freak?

I guess this is something that has probably been said a thousand times before, but, If pirating stopped overnight, then surely open source would become the standard within months? There's no way that pirates would suddenly start paying for software. And I mean NO WAY! In a way, pirating is doing corporations a massive favour by indirectly stifling open source, yes? Anyway, I love reading threads about this kind of topic, so I thought I should start to contribute :-)