Looks like I fall in the more than 100,000 times more category.

Yeah... if they want to replace my hard disk, maybe they should think of getting rid of that lame 2 GB storage limit for free accounts. All of the other services like Microsoft Skydrive and Google Drive offer more storage than that. Hell, even Apple gives you 5 GB of storage for free in iCloud, and they aren't exactly well known for giving anything away for free.

Oh, and I still think that the "Modern UI" sucks. At least Windows 8.1 lets you bypass it, and go straight to the desktop.

Really? I thought that the new Start button is kinda cool. I like how it has shortcuts to most of the commonly used admin tools when you right click on it, in what could be considered to be the mother of all pop-up context menus. Someone has to backport that option to Windows 7!

I keep all of my favorite programs in the dock, so the only time I need to use the Start button is to get into a Control Panel or shut down the system. All of those options are there when I right click.

Ah, so it's kinda like VNC vs. RealVNC.

Maybe I should hold out for Ultra IRA, now with more violence!

Funny... I don't remember Comcast reimbursing me for extra electricity that their fancy new public hotspot router is using.

Given their love of tacking fees to my cable bill, I would have figured that there would be a credit on there somewhere...

And disabled it a few minutes later. Facebook's Home application seems to operate under the impression that the primary use of my smartphone is to visit their site, as it makes everything else that the phone can do more time consuming to reach. Funny me... I thought that I bought my smartphone to check e-mails and answer phone calls. What a novel idea :)

Hey you, be quiet! You're giving Diane Feinstein ideas on what to add to her next anti gun legislation bill :)

Oh well... might as well download this. I'm probably already on some government terrorist watch list for those couple of bitcoins I mined a few months ago :)

Microsoft also "sold out" of the Surface RT on launch day as well... and that thing has sold poorly after it's initial launch. They were originally expecting to sell 2 million units in Q4 2012, and they only sold about half of that.

It seems that this tactic has become a common way for Microsoft to generate some additional post launch hype for their products. I wonder how many times they can get away with it before the mainstream press catches on...

The ThinkPad T30 also had the "burn your legs if you put it on your lap" issue. The Pentium 4 M processor in that thing ran really hot, and sucked down a fully charged battery in under 90 minutes under load.

The problem is that parts of new law aren't reasonable, especially the new 7 round magazine limit.

The standard magazine capacities right now are 8, 10, 12, 15, and 30. Nobody makes 7 round magazines for most guns.

So, basically, New York has just succeeded in making most existing semi automatic weapons with a magazine illegal to sell.

Perhaps I'm getting old, but I kinda expect my new PC to be somewhat usable out of the box without spending a day installing additional crap on it.