Did I miss something? I have done SEVERAL tests on machines running windows XP Vista and 7. I have never gotten an overall performance increase with 7. Vista runs the slowest XP the fastest and 7 a close 2nd. 7 only comes close if you have a new beefy machine with 4gb of RAM. I am not making any jokes here. Can someone point me to any proof that 7 out performs XP overall. Grant it I did all my testing before the official release of 7 but show me a Pentium 4 with 2gb of ram and I will bet XP will run faster.

I will be holding out till some one releases a holodeck!

I have a motorcycle.. why would i ride a bicycle? My last 2 jobs were 45 miles each way. 2 miles is SWEET

I was laid off from my IT position.. I live in Ohio.. everyone is laid off. All I know is computers. In a past life I was a paramedic but figured I didn't have the compassion needed for that job. I understand computers and love to do it. Thats why I chose IT. About 6 months ago I took a leap and opened my own computer repair shop. Only cost me about 2k to get the doors open. No stock of parts except the boxes of crap I had around my house. I am now making profit after 6 months. I love it. I have no one to answer to but myself. The customers are very thankful that there is some place they can go that will actually fix there issues. I even have some older retired guys who just come in to hang out. I have no experience what so ever in running a business. Learning curve is not all that hard. Luckily my neighbor is an accountant and helped me in that area. The first 2 months were kind of scary not having anything to do. Played a lot of pocket tanks with my friends. Now I have an office that I don't even go into because I have so much to do. If your an honest person that truly knows how to fix computers. I am sure you would be a welcome asset to your community. Oh yeah and the 2 mile drive to work is SWEET!

Since when is IE NOT mainstream? They have over 90% of the market? I get it.. they don't follow the rules and IE sux and everyone should use firefox or opera but to call IE not mainstream is if nothing else a bit odd.

Ha I just find it funny this is modded 5 informative.. REALLY? did we need to be informed. We need a 6 informative but don't need to know.

I must say that it has been a LONG time since I purchased a cert. Thawte and Verisign were competing companies at the time. I know when we got ours there were LOTS of hoops we had to jump through to get it. We had to verify phone numbers, addresses and Dun and Bradstreet crap. I can't imagine that over the years they made it so just anyone would be able to purchase a certificate saying the were a new paypal site?

I for one welcome our new fat breathing mice overlords