However, a 32-bit process doesn't see more than 2 GB unless the "large address aware" flag is flipped in its executable header.

When I was in school, there were tools floating around that let one avoid a memory wipe on a TI-83; they provided a menu that looked like the system menu, complete with the reset function, but which did nothing. IIRC, the most sophisticated ones also replaced the menu with the memory / saved programs, hiding them after the "reset" so it looked like something actually happened.

I've never seen ads in the music app for music on my own system. The music app also streams music from Microsoft's Xbox Music service; if you do a search within the music app, I think it looks for Xbox Music music by default instead of music in your own library. If you're playing that music, you get ads unless you subscribe, which I think is perfectly reasonable. I really like getting free music, by the way, and a good number of the albums I've tried searching for are on there, including some somewhat obscure ones. We don't get Spotify or Pandora in Canada, though.

Where? That article discusses issues with Metro/Desktop integration, the store, and wishes that cloud support was better. The only thing it says about multi-monitor support it:

Which doesn't really clarify anything at all.

There are two different underlying questions here which could potentially have two completely different answers:

A) Which project will have the larger set of developers using its code in some manner
B) Which project will have the larger set of developers contributing back to it?

Your (2) is called a number of different things. I think Dawkins calls it "strong" atheism. I've also seen "positive" and "hard" bandied about.

What about Huxley? Well, your definition of agnosticism definitely has nothing at all to do with his:

Where g is god, exists(x) is the premise stating that x exists, demonstrated(y) is where one takes as true that the evidence of the positive truth value of y exists, and where believe(not(p)) => not(believe(p)):

(1) agnosticism*: !demonstrated(x) => not(believe(x)) AND not(believe(not(x)))
(2) atheism: not(believe(p))
(3) "strong" or "positive" or "hard" atheism: believe(not(p))

Agnosticism, as Thomas Henry Huxley states it, is a system whereby one does not believe something to be certainly true/false unless they are actually demonstrably so. Following from this, the agnostic position would be not to believe in a god's existence or non-existence as neither is demonstrable, meaning that atheism follows from agnosticism. That is, unless you believe that a god's existence is demonstrated.

However, yes, the way you've used "agnostic" and the way Huxley used "agnostic" are not the same as the definitions of "agnostic" that many other self-identified agnostics and non-agnostics use today. You need to use epistemology and/or certainty of belief for most of the remaining ones. Sorry if that makes you uncomfortable.

I'm also sorry that this is so, but it is. By-and-large, prominent atheists and atheist organizations use the definition of atheist that I've used. Substitute "atheism" of the "soft/negative/weak" variety with "agnosticism" in your mind if you want to. However, if you do, then what are you going to call the other definitions of agnosticism?

Not if you ask Richard Dawkins (who declares himself both atheist and agnostic towards God), or just about any other prominent atheist. Not if you ask the guy who original coined the term "agnostic":

Agnosticism is not being certain about conclusions when there's no reason to be certain about them; when used in the context of gods, it's about not having certainty about either conclusion (gods exist or gods don't exist). Atheism is not having a belief in a god, which says nothing in itself about the certainty about a god existing or not.

Apologies for not responding to this yesterday; I was busy. But I'm here now! :)

Yep, I knew I brainfarted somewhere. I shall now revise my summary of the veracity of Fuhrman's claim: it's a load of shit, he's irresponsible for making it, and he's unethical for abusing journal references to support a claim they cannot. That is, my position remains the same, and I assure you it's not merely out of quacking. Let's look at all three studies then:

Kaartinen K, Lammi K, Hypen M, et al. Vegan diet alleviates fibromyalgia symptoms. Scand J Rheumatol 2000;29(5):308-13.

This is the one I discussed. It cannot be used as evidence that a raw vegan diet is a valid treatment for fibromyalgia, and it certainly can't be used to support the specific claims made by Fuhrman that the reason such a diet would work is because it's "a high antioxidant, acrlyamide-free diet".

Donaldson MS; Speight N; Loomis Fibromyalgia syndrome improved using a mostly raw vegetarian diet: an observational study. BMC Complement Altern Med 2001;1(1):7.

Oooooh, full article! Yes! Unfortunately, this article is worse than the last one. There was no control group (and by extension, no blinding). Again, there was no comparison to other diets. Six of twenty-six patients (23% of the study) dropped out after two months and aren't included in the statistics. Not all of the patients studied actually met the diagnostic requirements of FMS. The study does not state how many did not.

So okay, this study can't be used either. Not even in conjunction with the previous study, as both are at best at the preliminary stages. They're the sort of study you use to demonstrate that something is worth studying further when you're making a grant proposal.

Hanninen, Kaartinen K, Rauma AL, et al. Antioxidants in vegan diet and rheumatic disorders. Toxicology 2000 Nov 30;155(1-3):45-53.

Woah, I can find this one on Google. Two full articles, cool. Okay, this one is larger than the last two, but has virtually all of the problems that the first study has. There's no blinding, no comparison to other diets, nothing.

I wouldn't doubt increased fruit and vegetable intake is helpful. Does that mean it has to be raw? That animal products have to be cut out? That the rest of Fuhrman's discussion about toxins and the evils of baking and all of that is confirmed? Nope.

When he makes the claim that fibromyalgia can be dramatically treated with a raw vegan diet (the claim you quoted in the post I replied to) and that medical literature supports this claim, that study is the sole one he references. That study is not sufficient to support that claim in any manner whatsoever. There is no other relevant reference on that page. Abusing references to journals like this, as though he's assuming that his readers won't bother actually checking them, is misleading and unethical.

I have no idea why you're throwing additional quotes at me, and I have no interest in purchasing his book to get to read more improperly used references.

Only one of those references directly deals with the fibromyalgia and raw vegan diet claim that you quoted, and as I pointed out above that study cannot be used to support such a major claim. Simply throwing journal references on things doesn't make them any more true, that type of thinking nothing more than cargo cult science

(I meant "many of the benefits they tout", and left out that urine sodium levels also dropped by a full 2/3, further implying that the original diets were quite unhealthy in general. I can only hope the actual paper ends with a "More research is needed" line, since all the abstract has to conclude with is "It can be concluded that vegan diet had beneficial effects")

The only study (one study) quoted from that Timecubey article of yours is in

BMC Complement Altern Med 2001

I don't have access to the study (unless I brain farted and couldn't find the free access link) and the hell if I'm paying money to get a paper from a third-rate journal, but I can tell you what I can find from the abstract.

The study was conducted on 32 people; 15 were switched to a vegan diet, and 18 were kept on their preexisting omnivorous diet. The groups differed from one-another at the beginning of the study in terms of pain and urine sodium, which is a significant red flag considering that many of they tout are directly related to one or the other. There is no comparison to other diets. There is no comparison to healthier omnivorous diets. The abstract states that many of the patients in the study were overweight, implying that the preexisting diets in many cases may have been unhealthy in general and that generally improving the quality of the diets may have been more important than the fact the new diet was vegan.

And hell, that's just what I got from the abstract. At best this is one of those "more research is required" papers, it's certainly not enough to suggest that such a radical dietary switch is a reasonable treatment plan. Moreover, it's so oddly specific in switching from an omnivorous over to a raw vegan diet, and being published in an alt-med journal, that it sounds like it was intended to be (as the article you quoted did) treated as more than it is. And the alt-med crowd (pretends to) wonder why people call them pseudoscientists.

Yeah, levels so low we can't detect an effect, let alone any of the original substance at all.

What's more, multiple people apparently modded him up, and multiple people have modded the call-out posts (including the parent) down. Just lovely.

I use LibreOffice and I don't normally have to exchange MS Office files with others either. That doesn't mean I think Google Docs on Android is an Office replacement. It's not equivalent feature-wise, and last time I used the Android app it was even more limited, slow, and clunky than the web app. I do use Google Docs for some collaborative documents, I don't think it's useless, but it's not MS Office.

That's nice, but I wasn't really talking about cloud solutions. Sometimes, you know, I don't want to use the cloud, or put my files on the cloud. Maybe I just want to directly transfer a file. Maybe I want to transfer a file that I didn't know I'd want to transfer and didn't stick in my cloud-synced folder. Google Drive is fine on my tablet, but then I don't use my tablet for actual work. I tend to use a combination of Google Drive and SMB on my laptop.

I haven't played with that extensively, but it looks like integration with Android is still non-existent and relies on third party apps that seem kind of limited. With any of those apps, can I do print previews, enable duplex printing, print from a range, switch between coloured/monochrome, and do all of that quickly, with a large-screen formatted interface (as in, no constant jumping around between screens)? Are any of them FOSS or is there any other reason I should trust them with my documents?

Yeah, that's why I mentioned it as a potential plus for the Surface. You can program on an Ultrabook if need-be.