I canâ(TM)t believe it hasnâ(TM)t been mentioned in this thread already. Mercedes-Benz didnâ(TM)t make it illegal. Technically, what happened, was that all vehicles were illegal, and Bill Gates wanted to import. I think a 983 or something. And he lobby to have that 25 year clause so he could import his Porsche.

I think that was data CD. Red book audio I donâ(TM)t believe ever had copy protection

This is patently untrue. Do you have a source? Does it include the methane links for the gas lines?

No.

Thatâ(TM)s my answer. No. At this point the âoedesktopâ is moot.

Fifteen years from now âoedesktopâ will mean workstations. And a tiny sliver of the populace will use them.

I used to work in IT and in my new role everything is an app on my phone. So who cares if I run Void or Open BSD on my laptop?

I feel like itâ(TM)s becoming like being the biggest coachbuilder a decade after society switched to automobiles.

of a Tom Clancy novel?

If they sell fewer they need to charge more per item to make the same amount of money overall.

Itâ(TM)s also blown the tracker I attached to my cheating ex-girlfriendâ(TM)s bicycle before I headed over to the range to buy a box of 9mm.

December 1 through February 28.

We never stopped going in to the office.

for years. Apple, Microsoft, Google, all of them Have Issues. Smaller, more nimble, companies may be more easily contacted, but it often takes knowing someone who can bypass the various gatekeepers.

And not just in software. Several years ago I had a highly repeatable weird glitch while closing the top of my German convertible. Couldn't seem to get it fixed. Complained to Warren Brown (RIP) at the Washington Post during an online chat, and two days later I got a call from a regional engineering guy at the car company, and was in that weekend getting a switch replaced.

Put Hyper-V on its servers OSes

Or perhaps Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems.

Windows gets upset if you mix codepages. I suspect Linux and Mac do, too. Sure, mixing US/GB codepages shouldn't cause much trouble. But mixing Hebrew and US causes all sorts of fun, since the text moves in different directions. And Chinese can move vertically in addition to horizontally. If you don't start each snippet of text with the byte order mark things can get weird.

Congrats to those chemists! I hope that they enjoy the honor and prize money.

I don't put much faith in the awards themselves though. They gave a Nobel prize to the creators of the lobotomy.

They gave peace prizes to President Obama and Henry Kissinger.

Not to mention all is the economic prizes which aren't even technically Nobel prizes.

with running into police cars and fire trucks that are parked by the side of the road with their lights flashing. Oops.