I guess it depends on the application.

For example, I recently got to play Thief for the first time in years - it refused to play on Vista. The only reason I had Vista installed in the first place was in case I wanted to play some games.

It seems to me that when the games I want to play (command and conquer, dungeon keeper, alpha centauri, thief) work better and are easier to install in Wine than in Vista, I don't see the point of using Windows at all.

I think you may be wrong there.

would you say:
a) "all of the data in a computer is crap"
b) "all of the data in a computer are crap"

I know that 'data' is technically a plural, but it's not treated that way by most people.

also - "ones and zeros" is correct. If you were asked "what numbers are there in that hard-drive", you would not answer "ones or zeros"

also, to the other replier - "zeros" and "zeroes" are both correct.
http://www.bartleby.com/68/49/6649.html

arghh.... "give it to me baby, uh-huh, uh-huh"

damn - change your sig. /me burns karma

maybe a silly question, but wouldn't running multiple benchmarks simultaneously cause spurious results?

> Petric used his father's key to open a lockbox and remove a 9mm handgun

so what was the father (a pastor) doing with a gun in the first place?

whatever happened to "thou shalt not kill"? or was he planning on maybe clubbing burglars over the head with the stock of the gun when they entered the house?

> Games aren't meant to be simulations, they're meant to be fun.

what about simulation games?

"schools that switch save tens of millions of dollars"

"the world could save up to $500 million each year"

paraphrased: "nothing == everything"

you are an idiot.

are you mad??? if light had infinite mass, then every torch would act like the Half-Life 2 gravity gun.

no... if you turned the torch on, you would be instantly destroyed.

there is no such thing as "infinite" in reality - every case where "infinity" turns up is a case where the existing maths is not quite up to describing reality.

silly me. picture in article doesn't look remotely VTOL.

but in that case, i don't really see the point - if it's not a VTOL, it would need to take off and land at airports, in which case why not just use an airplane?

are these things not VTOLs? in which case, why would they need a runway?

my son Jareth is also autistic. I gave him one of my own laptops when he was 4. no problems with a mouse, as it had a synaptic pad.

I set him up with a simple system - Ubuntu with KDE3 in Kiosk mode. he was locked down to a few simple tasks.

He spent most of the time browsing around the CBeeBies website or playing "BridgeBuilder-Game".

Eventually, though, I had to take the laptop off him - he got so engrossed in it that he would forgo food and the toilet in favour of getting his "fix" of the laptop.

I'll give him another laptop when he reaches six or so and is understanding that he is only allowed the machine for an hour or two at a time.

To the OP: just get a vtech or other similar machine. A real computer is just too much coolness for a 2-year-old to handle. You need to give them something that they can let go of after a few hours.

And to the "oh get over yourself" poster - grow up. This is the 21st century. In the 20th, kids grew up with lego. Now, it's computers. You don't need to be a "genius" to use a computer. Any kid can handle it if it's set up properly, so asking for hints about a laptop to give the kid does not imply that the kid is somehow gifted.

-- this quote was originally uttered by Hal_Porter

I notice you did not name this "someone". Does that mean that your quote is illegal?