I've been evaluating the Win7 RC here at work for a week now, and I can tell yo that I am pretty excited for this release.

Vista suffered from being a major architecture overhaul with few bullet-point features. Windows 7 adds those features, many of which take advantage of the underlying changes from Vista.

XP mode looks to me like it will help us transition our existing (2000+) deployment packages to Win7 slowly, rather than requiring a complete re-certification process. (I'm not 100 on this yet, but so far so good).

Vista improved OS deployment via the WIM format significantly, and Windows 7 adds all sorts of usability tweaks that I think are highly inspired by the iPhone and gestures. It also adds codecs, while stripping out useless cruft like Windows Mail and DVD creator.

Discussing the speed of it in relation to XP is sort of disingenuous... it runs great on modern hardware, and does a lot of things XP will never do.

Great album, but if you're going to quote lyrics, go for the really shocking ones:

I am a big man
(yes I am)
and I have a big gun
got me a big old Dick and I
I like to have fun
held against your forehead
I'll make you suck it
maybe I'll put a hole in your head
you know, just for the fuck of it
I can reduce you if I want
I can devour
I'm hard as fucking steel, and Iâ(TM)ve got the power
I'm every inch a man, and I'll show you somehow
me and my fucking gun
nothing can stop me now
shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot
I'm going to come all over you
me and my fucking gun
me and my fucking gun

Regarding the topic at hand, Apple says they will be taking resubmissions soon, once the app store implements content ratings.

They didn't need myths, of course - the church was very busy at the time telling us the earth was the center of the universe, and having anyone who disagreed burned as heretics.

I think the flat-earth thing is a modern meme that spreads simply because it is more entertaining than the truth. "they were sooo stupid back then!"

"socialism" doesn't mean what the bulk of americans (ie "you") think it means. Most of Europe, Canada and South America are "socialist". We say "socialism" and you hear "communist dictatorship" which is something completely, completely different.

Sort of like how "liberal" is slanderous to you guys... so weird.

Stop thinking in black & white, flush the cold-war era propaganda from your mind, and you'll find there are some excellent lessons to be learned from a system not driven wholy by greed.

A computer guy who doesn't like change, huh? We have a name for you people around the office... Unemployed.

The answer is that two mirror image mollecules won't necessarily fit into the same chemical receptor (think Tetris), and therefore have different biochemical effects.

Codene is actually the stereoisomer of heroin, but it doesn't fit most of our receptors so appears mostly inert.

explain please how an entity can design itself. Just because what you typed reads like valid english, doesn't make it a profound truth. In your case, you're just blabbering nonsense.

A huge problem though is in deeming what is "defective". The fact that a gene exists in any significant part of the population beyond what you'd expect given random mutation, implies that it must have (or had) a reproductive benefit. For example, some jewish people have a gene that makes them slightly more succeptable to Tay-Sachs disease, which is an almost certainly deadly recessive trait. However, being a carrier for it grants immunity to Cholera, which would have been advantageous for a population that has been living in disease-ridden ghettos for millennia. Another deadly recessive trait is sickle-cell anemia. Being heterozygous for this trait still has non- life-threatening symptoms, but also the benefit of malaria immunity. Not surprisingly, sickle-cell anemia is prevalent in tropical african populations.

My point is, by weeding these genes out we create a monoculture of humans that will be less able to adapt evolutionarily to new diseases and environmental stress. Genetic diversity is a natural safety mechanism for species, as any agriculture expert will tell you.

I mean tightly control their licensees, so the market isn't flooded with crummy apple clones. Not talking about the technology, here!

Back then a computer was $4000, which included significant margin. Nowadays, computers (yes, even Macs) are much cheaper, and the margins are lower. Apple sells a new copy of OSX every year to most of its customers, with or without a new computer. This could make them money, if tightly controlled.

I'll be really surprised if Apple doesn't agree to simply make a deal with Psystar to manufacture clones for a licensing fee. It isn't that radical - Apple licensed Mac clones back in the late 80s - early 90s (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone#The_first_Macintosh_clones ). My uneducated guess is that Psystar has been negotiating for a licensing agreement for a long time, and then calculated that an outright court battle would land them a better deal than paying the fees initially suggested by Apple.

That or they're a fly-by-night outfit.

Worked under 6.0.5 as well, as long as you have the VT extensions enabled in the BIOS.

What does this have to do with the Mesa and X.org teams? They're graphics guys, and this isn't for graphics. I'd like to see inclusion in GCC (auto-vectorization maybe?) though.

You probably missed the part where NMap is open source.

Can I humbly recommend LOTRO? Its very WOW-like, but prettier and somewhat slicker. My coworkers and I have all switched over, and are quite happy with a new world to explore.