Couldn't agree more.

like a decimal point in the wrong place or something...

You are quite correct.

and begin selling stock images through the site he pwns as a result of the countersuit. A good lawyer should be able to get him some serious money (gratis) if he has adequate proof that the works are his.

The dude abides.

"I seem to recall reading the average delay last year was only 26 seconds."

Amtrak trains have a similar average delay. Oh wait. You said seconds. I thought you said hours.

You bent my wookie!

So my name may pre-bias me... but in my life I've had many a Windows box with a year of uptime. Granted, that was generally in the era of NT 4, when attacks were fewer, and patches weren't out every fourth Tuesday.

FOR THE GREATER GOOD!

I thought 2001 was? Or was that 2005?

Singularity is a research project. It's nowhere near mature.

Absolutely. EFI can support BIOS-based implementations as well (witness BootCamp on the Intel Macs - which does exactly that). Bye bye BIOS.

With Intel, Apple, and rapidly the entire rest of the x86, x64, and IA64 hardware world moving to (or explicitly running on, in the case of Apple and IA64) EFI, what is the whole point of CoreBoot besides being a nifty experiment? Intel won't let anything replace EFI anytime soon. Trust me - I've had EFI shoved at me for almost a decade.

My local Linux advocate told me so!

The WinFS team WAS the SQL team, from the beginning.

WinFS was a bad design from the get go, and no, it won't be in 7. The ideas behind WinFS were fundamentally flawed - you should be thankful that it isn't in there, and just hope for proper filesystem indexing and search.