Google says that patent expired in September of 2025, as it was filed in 2005. Yes, we are getting old.

Personally, I prefer the old rectangular Thinkpad charging connectors.

LOL, What broadcom is doing is a tried and tested formulae, you buy a product/company and you raise prices to milk the product till it is dead. They bought some of the most knowledgeable people in the world at doing this when they bought Computer Associates. There are a ton of options that are as good or better than VMWare now, but migrating can be expensive and slow, but make no mistake people are migrating on mass. I work with a collection of organisations and everyone of them has a VMWare migration in train.

Still a lot that are basically being held ransom. They are stuck with huge legacy farms that will take years to migrate away from. I work with one organisation that is desperate to get off VMWare as their bill is just on $50m a year now, but they are still a good 18 months away from being able to retire VMWare due to regulatory and certification requirements of the replacement systems.

What a stupid statement. It isn't about one size fits all, it is about 1 size saves you a bucket load of integration and maintenance costs. managing 10 different products, licenses and updates as well as there integration is hugely expensive. buying a product that is ok in all of those can save a business a fortune.

nothing to do with genetics. It was a population shift from Black to Brown rats, sanitation, isolation and general cleanliness. The Plague is still as deadly today as it was 700 years ago, except now we can easily treat it.

and just like resident evil 90% of the story is false. She didn't break a test tube in a lab, she was returning from a field trip when she got ill and tested negative for the plague. What she died of exactly is unknown at this point. Really the only reason this is in the news is because of where she worked, if her job was elsewhere this would barely make the local news.

what you think Russia doesn't do medical research?

It has nothing to do with the cameras, it is to do with difficulty of stealing them. Tesla and mercedes are both very difficult to steal now ({wasn't always the case with mercedes).

the majority of thieves don't give a shit about consequences, flock helps to catch after the fact. Your average thief gives little thought to getting caught or doesn't care if they are caught.

Then it is not better. Teams is a general use solution, yes there are better meeting products, presentation products, cal productrs, collaboration products, chat products etc etc. what there isn't is one product that does all that better than teams and implementing loads of different products to do all that is hugely expensive. Teams is average at moist things, but average is currently the best.

Teams is shit...But there isn't anything out there at the moment that is better.

Back in my day, it was popular with boys about 9 and up. But it was a bit of a niche game - it had its die-hard fans, and a whole lot of people who never played it.

Isn't "Mexico" from a native Mesoamerican word, and not from a Hispanic language at all?

Describe "0 free memory". When I say it is 100%, I am literally looking at Outlook, Windows services, and Excel taking almost 16GB by themselves. This is not cached memory model of the Linux and MacOS where free RAM is reserved for caching. At 16GB, the "cached memory" on my Windows machine is disk swap as I can see the disk activity.

I am not searching through this forum just because you can't be bothered to retype or paste a link. Also I have to read your mind to determine which of your posts apply? That's a no.

There are lots of things that could be removed from Windows that are unnecessary; however, MS makes it more difficult with each new update and patch. Removing them for the performance is such a hassle that few do it. For example, I don’t have an Xbox but MS deems it that I must have Xbox Gaming installed with each major update. It used to be that you could uninstall it. Now you can remove it but it really is not uninstalled as components still exist; for example all the modules that connect to the Xbox gaming servers still are present.

There are all sorts of service running that do not to be. I don’t have a touch screen yet all components for it cannot be removed. My machine is a desktop not a laptop yet airplane mode exists and cannot be removed. I know because one day it was triggered somehow and I was off the Internet until I rebooted and reset everything.