At least if Windows 7 doesn't recognize your video card, it will at least show a bad quality GUI. With Linux, your video card isn't recognized, if you're lucky, you'll be stuck at a command prompt with an X-windows error that says something like, "No Screens Found" (which is ironically displayed on your screen).

When the PlayBook came out, their app store consisted of about 15,000 temperature conversion apps, none of which were free.

TMI;DNR

Phone and power companies are not run by the government but they are required, by said government, to provide services at a reasonable cost to rural locations. I don't see why the USPS couldn't be required to abide by the same type of policy without needing to be a government agency.

That must have been an enormous rabbit!

Great, so you can technically use two applications at a time, although the second application gets shoe-horned into a tiny, non-resizable portion of the screen. You've never had to consolidate information or designs from more than two windows, or from sections that do not neatly fit in a staticly sized window that can never grow or shrink? Ever?

How many of those vulnerabilities allow complete root/administrator level access to the entire system? I may be guilty of observational bias, but it seems that every time I bother reading the details of windows vulnerabilities, they mention that it grants the attacker complete control of the system.

If they don't, Italy will probably send them to prison for not warning everyone.

Actually EDT is currently in use. Daylight Saving Time ends this Sunday, after which EST will be in effect.

Windows 7 was just as "snappy" when it first came out. When Windows 8 gets bloated with over a hundred security patches under its belt we'll see just how snappy it is. Frankly, I'm not bothering with Windows 8 just for a nicer Task Manager and crappy user experience.

I believe FTL is made possible by the use of any source of Brownian motion, such as an advanced tea substitute.

Any software written by ADP?

Well, gee, if a playwright from a century ago says that vaccinations are a scam, it can only be true!

They could be booting a LiveCD image in the background while they're displaying all of the AMD, ATI, Nvidia, Intel, Dolby Digital, SquareEnix, LucaArts, EA, and other development and production house, etc. full screen ads that come up when you launch any major title these days. I doubt anyone would notice the additional delay of loading an entire operating system.

Our CFO bought a Blackberry Playbook when they first came out, partly because he is (or was) a stockholder. I took a look at the app store and basically saw about 10,000 temperature conversion apps (for only $1.99 each!) and not much else. Needless to say I was not impressed. It didn't help that you had to tether the damn thing in to an existing Blackberry handheld to access email, so they were only ever going to sell them to existing Blackberry customers. The user interface for enabling said tethering was convoluted, not user-friendly, and didn't work out of the box. It required a software update to work, and the software update process was confusing and didn't seem to work most of the time. It had a damn nice screen with good build quality, but the user interface and software was lacking in so many ways that he finally gave up on it and got an iPad.