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I'd be happy if this is true. My experience getting all drivers to work in any windows machine has been usually longer. I plan on purchasing Win7 for my secondary OS(gaming) even though I use Ubuntu 99% of the time.

I do the hiring for my shop. We provide technical support for industrial machines(greasemonkey/electronics/pc/controls/etc) To me, a degree only demonstrates you have the discipline to finish a job; It's the person's attitude/team focus/initiative I'm really interested in. I have mechanical and electronic aptitude tests to measure base skills. 4.0GPA or 2.0GPA, it doesn't matter; Bottom line: People hire people not degrees(or they should anyway imo).

It's too bad no one told this woman that if she filed this lawsuit she would be forever marked as an automatic 'NO' from every potential employer. If I was interviewing her and knew she had pursued this lawsuit, the first thought in my mind would be, 'OMG she's gunna sue us if she get's passed up on a promotion/raise/whatever she don't like'

Is when some new strain of HIV becomes more easily transmittable.

sarcasm> Anything in the sky that isn't normal (what is normal exactly?) is caused by global warming, duh! /sarcasm

This ^^ With the exception it's usually more than only 3 doctors. My father-in-law managed a the business for a group of radiologists for 28 years and his 'challenges' at work really surprised. I was amazed at the ancient filing, tracking, and billing methods they used; Mainly because the doctors don't want to spend the money on it and/or can't agree on a course of action.

The model for this game design is really from D&D. E.g. Do stuff, get 'loot' randomly after an encounter, fill up the XP bar to hit the next level, improve skills, abilities, feats, etc, etc. The difference is that you don't have to go to your buddies basement(with your Doritos/Mountain Dew) and bring your dice on a Sunday afternoon to get your fix like with a video game; It's right there in your computer room. It also gives the experience to those who are imagination impaired. The potion of the gaming industry using these 'evil' methods should be thanking Gary Gygax and Dave Arenson for the money they're making.

They should really use this to mix style with innovation by putting the head controller into pimped out fur top hats or whatever is marketable. Game specific head controllers would be cool, like mock night vision goggles for fps games, football helmet for the next John madden game etc.

Clearly the question: "How big is the effect of a gravitational wave on a thin superconducting sheet compared to the effect on an ordinary conducting sheet" is the wrong question given the answer of 42. Deep Thought could tell them that...

I've been working as a tech at a 3rd party billing company for almost 11 years. I remember the talk when everyone was going paperless, but we print considerably more bills today than we ever have before. Several of the statements we send aren't real bills, but online activity statements for 'paperless' customers. The fact is people like their paper statement, even if they pay online. I don't know how much success Timer Warner will have with this fee, but I'd guess enough customer complaints will cause them to reverse their decision.