I beg to disagree.
I've lived pretty much everywhere, except the Northeast, but I have driven there.
In my completely non-humble opinion, 2 places in the United States tie for Most Insane Drivers. The 1st is St. Louis, Missouri; I grew up relatively close to it, and spent a lot of my formative driving years there. It wasn't until I moved away that I realized that in most places Bumper-to-Bumper traffic was supposed to exist at speeds UNDER 70mph.
Atlanta, GA ties it. If you've driven there, there is no point in going into details; I don't want to cause anyone to have a PTSD attack.
Most other places, like the Mass turnpike, LA freeway system, they are just annoying.

Sorry, the only comment that comes to mind is "you are stoned on batshit". I don't mean that in a harsh or mean way, it's just what comes to mind.
I had a computer store when Warp & 95 came out. On identical 486-40's, I had Warp and 95 running; Warp would run ANY Dos or 16-bit program easily, obviously faster than '95. There was no real comparison, it did EVERYTHING better.
I've never forgiven IBM for screwing that up so badly.

Amen.
OS/2 is a close 2nd, though.

That would be a pretty interesting innovation for clippy.

1: You are the only person, of the several who replied that stated this.
2: Google "Office 2007 sucks".
3: You are the 3rd person I've ever encountered who likes office 2007; the first person had never used any other version, so didn't know that it could be better; they had an excuse. The 2nd just likes whatever is newest, just because it's newest. He did have some problems loving Vista, but luckily Windows 7 came out soon enough that he didn't have to suffer with it for long.
4: Seriously? you like the ribbon?

Openoffice HAS been around for a while.
But seriously, I just simply do not believe that aspect of the data; Office 2007 sucks balls, and the vast majority of business installations I've seen have been Office 2003 or Office 2000.
It sort of kills the validity of the whole thing to me, even if the Vista adoption numbers look right.

1st off, I can't duplicate it for Win2k. I'm using Windows 2000 Advanced Server as my testing machine, but that really shouldn't be an issue.
2nd off, the release says the worst possible thing that can happen to Win2k is a DoS; the intense hatred microsoft has for people still using Win2k makes me think that they are possible telling an untruth.
3rd off, I'd be sort of suspicious when the same thing applies to Win2k3 also; they aren't making money from windows 2003 these days, only the operating systems that ARE drastically affected by the problem.
Regardless, with either Win2k or Win2k3, set it up right and you don't have to worry about it. TCP/IP filtering for the win. Tiny personal Firewall v2.x doesn't hurt.

There is actually some interesting insight into this debate at the University of Kentucky Library in Murray, KY (of all places).
I'm not going to go in to details, as I've been labeled a crank a few times to many lately, but if you have access check out the Stubblefield papers in reference to Tesla, ignore the respective wiki article, and form your own opinions.

plug: gotthefire.net

I see one good thing about this; they positively could not have poisoned Freenet, (unless they are talking Freenet 0.7, maybe) but every additional Freenet 0.5 user makes the network faster and more anonymous; by trying to screw with it, they made it a little better.

plug: gotthefire.net

That IS pretty big news.
Does anyone here have any inside details?
While SF has made great use of Tunneling Diodes, there are some genuinely freaky potential applications of this; the process outlined ITFA makes me think that they might be able to produce very strongly matching tunneling diodes....and that is just scary (in a mainly good way).

There is NO good reason to use Vista, unless you have a tablet PC.
I still use Windows 2000 on my Surfing/Gaming system; so far, I've only had to use my dual boot to XP for 2 games, everything else works perfect.

Really want to be safe, and have all the bells and whistles? Windows Server 2008. It Rocks.

I have some insight on this.
I ran a Computer store from '92 to '95. I started doing a "buy, sell or trade" thing on computer games in 94, I immediately noticed a big jump in new game sales, and the reason was told to me by hundreds of customers, being able to sell or trade the game in when they were done was a gigantic incentive to buy the games in the first place.
I also tried renting them out, BTW; that helped sales a little, but only because every 3rd or 4th customer ended up buying the game through late fees.
Up until Microsoft's attempt to kill or seriously injure the PC gaming industry came out, the "games for windows" program, I would have said that PC game reselling was a 100% good thing for the gaming industry; I imagine it would be impossible with the state of EULA's to do it legally, these days.
Blatant Plug: www.gotthefire.net/dnn. Go. Be Round.

Disclaimer: I've been mainly retired since 2004.
I love the "Paper Raj" comment.
Gods, I hate process Nazi's. Has anything innovative EVER been done with full process control?

Scary.
Sort of off the subject, but does anyone know of a database of surveillance cameras? I've found one in New York, and one in Chicago, but that is WAY too far to lug a soon-to-be-burning tire.

Not necessarily.
Mediasentry could have gotten it wrong.
It could have been a Trojan on her machine (seen this several times).
It could have been a ex-boyfriend.
It could have been the kid next door, even though there is no Wireless involved.
It could have been bundled in with another download.
It could have been someone relatively skilled who was screwing with her.
If this trial was closer, I would offer to be an expert witness.