At my University, the CS100 class had a median score of 91 or 92, but the mean was much worse. Basically, 70-80% of students were "A/B" level, and just about everyone else was a total failure. Of course, those everyone else's probably never took another computer science class, so I guess the system worked for everyone.

Wait a minute, Chrome and Firefox have no vulnerabilities?

+1 to this - Silverlight is much better than Flash for video. In my experience, it runs with better quality and less CPU usage than flash on all of my systems (Core i7 all way down to Core Duo). Of course, my only experience with Silverlight is with Netflix and March Madness, so YMMV.

The 2.6.32 kernel fixes the HDMI TV detection for 720p resolution on intel chips. Everything else works great for me in intel world (using Gentoo x64 stable).

It's faster, according to Lifehacker.

SYNC works really well and is a huge reason I would consider a Ford vehicle (Fusion or Mustang) over competitors. Of course kdawson will find negatives about it since it's a Microsoft product.

IE8 isn't garbage - it's Javascript performance is pretty awful, but it does bring a few decent features to the table. Accelerators are simple, but effective; web slices might be glorified RSS feeds, but they work and Yahoo mail supports them; and the best part is that each tab gets its own thread. IE8 and Chrome are the only browsers that do this (to my knowledge) and it's really handy - broken websites don't hork up your entire browsing session like they do in Firefox and Opera. FWIW, I use Opera as my primary, and IE8 as my backup in Vista/7 and FF3.5 as my backup in XP. For whatever reason, IE8 feels faster than FF in Vista/7, whereas FF3.5 feels faster in XP.

No, the article is pretty crappy and is definitely troll bait, but the website is good in general.

Bit-Tech is actually a really good website - kind of like the British version of AnandTech. It's also Custom PC magazine's website, I believe.

Google's Checkout is a failure, much like most every other Google product other than search. Now that Google Checkout is the same price (or in some cases, more expensive) than PayPal, yet less feature rich, I assume it will just disappear in time like every other PayPal challenger.

No sir, I have never watched a person drown in icy water and then revived hours later. Is this a common thing to see?