Commenters whining about loss of freedom clearly don't live in Boston. It took five days from the bombings to having both suspects off the street. No civilians were hurt after the bombings. One police officer lost his life, and one was critically wounded in their efforts to bring the suspects to justice. If you are not impressed by that, you're not human. That's why, in Boston, we were applauding law enforcement, not bitching about some imaginary freedoms that you wont actually lose. Shut up already.

Wouldn't it be nice if there were a whole bunch of third-party desktop environments from which to choose? That way, if you don't like one, you can use a different one, or use more than one, instead of waiting for the next release, all the while hoping that MSFT changes the desktop environment to be better suited to you personally. While they're at it, they can shrink their OS size to be less than tens of GB, get rid of the registry, and separate user space from kernel space! Oh! oh! and while they're at it, they could add support for other filesystems, like ext3/4 and zfs!

If only there were an OS that had all this...

Wouldn't it be nice if there were a whole bunch of third-party desktop environments from which to choose? That way, if you don't like one, you can use a different one, or use more than one, instead of waiting for the next release, all the while hoping that MSFT changes the desktop environment to be better suited to you personally. While they're at it, they can shrink their OS size to be less than tens of GB, get rid of the registry, and separate user space from kernel space! Oh! oh! and while they're at it, they could add support for other filesystems, like ext3/4 and zfs!

If only there were an OS that had all this...

Clearly the judge is a firm believer in piracy, else he wouldn't have made that ruling. Seriously though, people are trying to sell "used" mp3's?

Industry's 100+ year-lifetime claim is based on write-wear alone, which is pretty much correct, but a marketing ploy. SSD's fail from firmware problems and other hardware problems unrelated to write-wear.

True, prices are coming down, but spinning storage is still much cheaper, especially at the high-end, though the high-end doesn't much matter to desktop users. I can get a quality 3TB HDD for $150, but it would be hard to find a 1TB SSD for less than $2500. I could be wrong, but I don't think 3TB SSDs even exist yet.

yes. twitter could have absolutely stopped the war from happening.

My guess is that physics has something to do with it; the disk head has to focus a magnetic field on a very small area. But, I am no physics expert. We could take this idea to its logical conclusion and ask, why does the disk need to spin? We could cover the entire platter with heads.

Is the spinning disk industry really being rocked? SDDs cannot come close to the capacity per dollar that spinning disks offer. The two can be efficiently (both cost-wise and performance-wise) used in tandem by using the SSD as a cache.

"If this estimate is given a causal interpretation, it means that clicks on legal purchase websites would have been 2 percent lower in the absence of illegal downloading websites," according to the study. If it is given a casual interpretation they can come to pretty much any conclusion. All the study really shows is that people who like music are more likely to visit more media outlets to acquire it, be them legal or otherwise. I'd like to see a better analysis on this topic just because I am actually curious to know whether or not piracy hurts online record sales.

Hey man, if all you like to do with a computer is watch porn and reboot often, Windows is for you. As a Linux/BSD user, I prefer to watch porn without rebooting.

Right on brother. the problem is that windows users have come to just expect constant reboots to be normal. *nix machines will go forever unless you replace the kernel. I don't know why people have so much trouble getting programs to work, I've found linux/bsd works out of box. Arch has some quirks but its my fav so far, and if that's a problem, mint works great out of box.. better than any windows I've used. Thanks for the "Unknown Error" popup, that helps me a lot, MS. Windows 8 even pages kernel memory. What!?!

The Windows Watch, in addition to crashing on leap years, will feature an hour hand, a minute hand, and a "number of 100-nanosecond intervals since January 1st 1601" hand.