Microsoft windows monetization strategy is changing with time. Windows is moving towards subscription based model for enterprises and ad based model for home users. If you don't like ad, buy enterprise edition.

I am well informed user but sometimes I prefer to type partial URL in Google and click on first hit. I do that mostly for banking websites where one single letter in mistyped URL can take you to a fraud website.

Bugs are good!
-- software engineer paid for maintenance

No need to imagine when you can have Atrix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x7omSTSzl8

Indeed!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2osExsJR9Q&feature=related

Certificate is not a single public key but 'chain of trust'. If you get one certificate from a known CA, you should be able to sign more self generated certificates with that.

Not true for Google India. Normally Google finance is 5th or 6th in search result. http://www.google.co.in/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=csco

HTML5 youtube does not work as good as flash(at least on my 1Mbps connection). It stops for buffering for so many times whereas flash runs smoothly.

How can you install a new released version of android on old phone? Android uses different kernel(read device drivers) for each release.

Cupcake: 2.6.27
Donut: 2.6.29
éclair: 2.6.31
Froyo:2.6.32

Google does not write device drivers or port kernel. Google get involved only in reference platform which is required to develop android user space. For rest of devices, kernel porting is mostly driven by OEM(for a particular hardware) and it is done by hardware partners. What is the incentive for OEM to port a new kernel for old hardware which is already in market?

I like the way P4Win GUI works. When user does something, it prints the actual CLI command it is running in lower half of window.

Embedded System on Chip= ARM cores + Peripheral(SDIO, USB, I2C..) Controllers + Video/Audio Decoder + Interrupt Controller + Power Manager Unit Controller + RTC + ... Most of the SoCs are designed to have different power rails to all ( or few combinations) of these modules. I am not aware of any SoC which keeps ARM core running while playing music when screen is OFF. To serve an interrupt, you don't need to keep ARM running. You can always wakeup ARM core through some custom circuitry and save power.

or you can use your pee as rocket thrusters.

I agree with parent. if you can't avoid numerical calculations, provide printed log tables.

How is this news? Driver source is available in android git from a long time.