A lot more people get killed by car than by swimming pools. It's time to stop this mandatory swimming-pool-protection-fences nonsense, and focus on car safety instead!

Have you ever hear about the law of diminishing returns? Read it, and think again.

It's a two-way process: they use their search engine to promote their browser, and they use their browser to promote their search engine. Welcome to the wonderful world of monopoly.

I have always sent my CV as plain paper. That way anybody can view it on anything, anywhere and it will always look the same. I have had a few clueless IT people contact me asking for a digital version, but I turn them down saying I'm looking for a real job, not a bullshit job.

...that will never work. That would cost more to manufacture, and you would sell less bottles as you would squeeze more out of each. I cannot see how the manufacturers would be interested in that.

There is an opportunity for a business who can vertically integrate boring machine design and operation. This whole boring business run just like it was running in the XIXth century; he probably foresaw a significant headroom for disruptive technological improvement.

The marginal improvement curve is slowing but surely heading towards asymptotic flatness. Time to move on to a new product.

Based on recent development in some countries on planet Earth, I would say this is a definitive YES.

So if I understand well, the areas where Microsoft if winning money is the one they only invest in? Does this mean that Micro$oft is slowly becoming an investment company?

... do you get the right to some privacy, at least?

Agreed, but random Joe does not give a shit whether the application is not running because it's using a broken virtual environnement or if it's the own application fault. If you are not able to reliably run an application using java web-start, then don't use java web-start. Use a native application, browser plugins, or whatever else.

I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. --Bjarne Stroustrup

Given enough time, an army of monkeys jumping on typewriters will spit out the complete work of Shakespeare.

Depends on your definition of "runs on Linux". I managed to get the screen-share running (ugly I must say), after a long and epic battle with my browser. But to make the sound work, AFAIR you had to "manually" install of dozen of old/unsupported x86 libs; the operation was heading towards a maintenance disaster so I did not dare to complete it. Anyway, for sound, I usually use a plain-old-physical-phone, the sound quality is usually better.

The funny thing is that both are carried more or less the same way by the telcos nowadays.

Unless 99% of the OS are supported, it's useless for my company then (and lots of company I know). We're in 2017 for god's sake, people should start to understand that not all the people do run Windows or iOS. Especially for a conf-call stuff, where you need to find the common denominator suitable for every callers.