Actually, I'm wondering if 512M is enough space for core vista. The problem is OEM's preinstalling crapware on all their machines.

the most hardcore free speech zealot understands why you cant shout fire in a crowded theatre. therefore, everyone recognizes that yes, there actually ARE limits to free speech.

There is no law that says you cannot shout "fire" wherever you want to. Any limits on that are the property owner's. They can say that you shouting "fire" is dangerous to their business and ask you to leave if you want to do so. The converse applies too, get the owner's permission and you can go around shouting "fire" all you want.

So no, that does not limit free speech, because it's long established that property owner's have control over what goes on at their property.

The iPhone's touchscreen is so integrated into the actual screen (plus it's capacitive) that calibration should never need to happen. And I've never heard of anybody iPhone being off.

Well, a normal user couldn't go removing libraries, you would elevate to root if you need to. So it seem reasonable that Windows wants Administrator access to do the same. I've noticed in Win7 that I can't just go playing around with stuff in C: without granting permission.

So they are making it (where it is the consumer version, the servers are locked down properly) more secure, and we shouldn't be bashing them for that.

Of course, removing a Photoshop DLL and finding it doesn't work anymore is hardly evidence for DRM. I wonder what happens if I remove libgimp...

Most wi-fi is run by routers in people's houses. I don't expect Apple to travel everywhere to approve everybody's network. And the iTouch/iPhone already only runs Apple approved apps (which is why I jailbroke my iPhone)

Go by kernel version (of NT) and you will see:

3. Windows NT 3.1
4. Windows NT 4
5. Windows 2000
5.1. Windows XP
6. Windows Vista
7. Windows 7