Out of 10. Come on. It's like complaining about a hammer. Days of complaining about OSes is over. Use 'em. Done.

Why was he genuinely concerned yet many here are flippant? I say because it's typical. We have a lot to worry about and media as always are doing sell-by-fear campaigning 24/7. We all wouldn't know when to be concerned, really. Because we are told to be concerned about everything! He has obviously put considerable thought into it and his point of concern is missed. He was talking about unpredictability therefore uncontrollable outcomes. This is a valid reason enough for caution.

Abbot Point is about exporting massive amounts of coal. The Abbott Government is the most anti-environmental I have seen in my life of 62 years. He himself is a climate change skeptic and he was elected on a platform of repealing the Carbon Tax. We are only in the first year of this vandals office. After 3 years he will have done untold damage and the apathetic voters will probably vote him in again. We love economic growth and we don't want the party to end. Environmental stuff is just a party spoiler. I'm ashamed of so much that is going on here.

We heard of the problems with Simcity, now we apparently have a problem with HOTS. Bought my copy yesterday--- battlenet can't authenticate today. Over paying good money for games that don't work out of the box.

I seem to remember this as the discussion we have had before any windows release. It's just like a hammer with a different handle. We will still use it to drive our nails.

To know is impossible. Everything is claim and counter claim. We establish an idea for a period of time only. Everything is up for review therefore to know is simply a transient claim.

A game just has to be good. I don't care about storyline unless it's a bad story line. It shouldn't get in the way of a good game.

On the surface it appears to be the case but I think it could swing back the other way. Bricks and mortar shopping is an experience which people enjoy. What are we to look forward to? Living in isolation where everything simply arrives at our door is not a very appealing thought. The "village" atmosphere has appeal even if they are now shopping centres.

Buying cheap is not reserved to United Sates. We here in Australia are excellent bargain hunters. And China plays the role in satisfying all our cheap buying habits. But let's face it- we all like cheap. Off the subject a bit-- if the Iphone was not manufactured in China but in the U.S. then how much would we expect to pay for it today? It's an interesting question concerning the cheapness of quality items.

There is nothing to say that every civilisation has a technological sunset clause inbuilt. There is also nothing to say that we will run out of natural resources capable of sustaining our existence. There is nothing to say that intelligent life trends to extinction. Drakes equation is simply one way of looking at the subject. The subject of intelligent life in the universe will remain a mystery whilst we are using any of the current ways of thinking. We are relying on one thing and one thing alone------discovery! Until this happens and how it will happen is unpredictable, we simply must wait. Hasn't this been the way of things since the start of our technological journey. Discovery is unpredictable, serendipitous and a phenomenon all of its own. This is where I personally look for the intelligence or god entity of our universe. I am not so smug in my intelligence to rule out any possibilities when it comes to the reality of intelligent life. I am open and humble in my thoughts.

So story is-- we will keep filling the world with obsolete PC's just sitting there or here capable of working but growing little annoyances. I have found through all my years that old operating systems fail at something at just the right time-- usually something small like not doing wireless as is the case with XP on both my clunkers. Somewhere along the line of service packs the wireless networking functionality on XP became corrupted on many older machines ( Ok on wired connections though). So being that they are unsupported the problem remains. A small annoyance to home users but enough to want an upgrade of course naturally

Ok. Apple is like a religion then. Freedom of choice is still possible even when a religion is on offer. You have simply demonstrated that. You have failed to disprove Apple is a religion however.

It is a religion.

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