I don't understand the nostalgia concerning Windows XP. It was always a mediocre version of Windows in comparison to NT and 2K. It's main claim to fame was that it was a major leap from 3.11 and wasn't as bad as Windows ME.

Win 7 is a huge improvement, once you disable the user access control (UAC). I agree that Win 8 is a mess with the touch UI. Once you get past it with Start8 or some other utility, it too is a huge improvement over XP. I also understand the frustration with settings, etc., being move around in the menus, but you get used to it after while.

The only thing that I re-enable in newer versions of Windows, that was enabled by default in XP, is the quick launch tool bar. Personally, I have been very happy to leave XP in the dust.

it's simple... facts are boring... anti-facts, better known under the scientific term "made up stuff", are much more fun....

Then you get your money and the police....

So gamers will be popular either because they are known to be good or simply because they choose the right name and get publicity...

So this is like the difference between Morgan Freeman and Kim Kardashian.

First they tell us that dark chocolate is good for us because of the antioxidants and that it reduces the amount of fat that your body adsorbs from other foods.
http://www.scientificamerican....
http://www.medicalnewstoday.co...

Then they tell us that whole milk, cheese, etc. keeps us leaner
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesa...

Now bathing in sunlight (don't forget the sunscreen) will help us manage our weight.

So, I guess this means that eating dark chocolate, chasing it down with whole milk, while sitting in the sun and reading (good thing I own a Kindle) will help me get rid of those unwanted pounds... Ahhh... This IS the life.... (grin)

Here ya go... http://www.theguardian.com/med...

Top Gear is Cartainment... In my opinion, it isn't a serious car show. Though, it is popular... Those who watch it understand that the hosts have their tongues firmly planted in their cheeks and that they drive cars hard, not like normal people in day-to-day traffic. Saying that a show is disingenuous because it doesn't represent daily driving habits is a specious argument simply because it isn't that type of show.

The point is that Top Gear isn't a show for people to find information on daily driving. That's what Motor Week and Consumer Reports are for....

Windows RT is basically a bad hobbled version of Windows. Now Windows Pro tablets, on the other hand...

Unless you actually do real work...

It sounds like the organizers of the show gave away too much control to the sponsor's representative. It's a natural thing to want to not aggravate the sponsor, but there is a line where you give up way to much control and bad things happen. The point is that you need someone on the management team to step up in these situations to reign in any loose canons. It sounds like this group was missing this key ingredient and everything ended up going off the rails...

I could see this type of thing helping on blind corners with lights and in relatively light traffic. It would also help people who don't pay attention to the lights or where the lights are too high to see.

One issue that no one has brought up yet, though, is that people will rely on using the system to the point where they will go through new or existing traffic lights simply because they not in the system...

Boston is on the leading edge of it's time zone. I always look forward to DST. If we didn't change the time the sun would come up at 4:30 am here and go down at 7:30 pm during the summer. I'm a night owl and the sun coming up that early would kill me plus it wouldn't leave much time for summer evening activities during week nights. Boston really should be on the Atlantic time zone, but that wouldn't go over well with business because of ties to the NY stock markets, etc.

Netflix is utter crap if you want to watch new movies. It's the reason why I dumped Netflix a year ago. Amazon and Redbox both get new movies much faster and you can stream them. I'll grant you that Netflix does a good job at adding to their impressive old movie collection and they tend to add TV series fairly quickly. They may meet your needs, but there are many of us left wanting.

A combination of Redbox, Amazon Prime, Comcast, and NHL Game Center Live does it for me...

This is not a commentary on Microsoft so much as it is a commentary on Peter Molyneux's personality and work habits.

Some of us are self-starters and don't need constant crises or deadlines to get work accomplished or be creative. Others require that sense of the world will come to an end to be motivated. Hell for me would be to constantly be in crisis mode. Hell for him is to not be... To each their own...

You know that the whole Pimp-my-X meme has jumped the shark when NASA scientists think that they need Tron style space suits and that they actually think they look modern and cool...

Um, he did say he got it for her for WORK... That means MS Office, email, etc. While I love my android tablet for personal stuff, its not capable of handling my work activities. Surface Pro 2 Supports Visio... For that alone I might pick one up....