I only have problems when devs write a small lightweight program for one specific function (downloading files) and then, when the program does that job perfectly fine and does not really need improvement except for bugfixes, they add on function after function, hire another dev or two to write more bloat and then one day they post on their website "sorry people, writing all that stuff costs money, so we now have to put advertising into our program". The program was fine, there was no need to add more functions nobody is interested in, especially if doing so costs so much time/money that you need advertising.

Devs create small, easy to use program which does the one job it was designed to do very well.
Lots of people start using the program because it is good and lightweight and not annoying.
Devs think "oh, our program is very good, but we cannot simply leave it as it is, we need to have MORE FEATURES".
More features get put in, making users angry, because they use the program for its ONE job it initially was designed to do, not for anything else, because they already have OTHER programs which do those jobs better anyway.
Devs think "oh, time to make some money".
Ads get put in, plus "oh you can buy the premium version".
Users leave.

First Azureus, which transformed from a simple bittorrent client to a "your personal multimedia database/video streaming/community" monstrosity called "Vuze". Now uTorrent goes down the same road, from a small, lightweight "I can only download and nothing else and that is my whole selling point" bittorrent client to a "you can stream video and organize your multimedia experience for all your mobile gadgets" monster and now they add advertising on top of it, but oh, you can buy the premium version without advertising.

Thanks, but no. I'll just move on to another free and lightweight bittorrent client, because that's why I came from Azureus(Vuze) to uTorrent in the first place. But now you turned into Vuze, too. It's not as if there aren't any other clients around, uTorrent really does not have any distinguishing features, so I just kept using it our of pure laziness to install something else and put up with the added bloat instead. But when devs really think their bittorrent client is awesome enough to make users put up with advertising, it's time to move on.

Then they should be sacked as soon as possible. Touchscreen will not take over the desktop anytime soon, because the human body simply is not built to sit and point at things for hours. A keyboard/mouse is much MUCH more comfortable than having to raise your arm to click on stuff. And that's not even taking into account that most people have their (TFT) screen too far away on their desk to even REACH it with their hand.

You COULD at least permanently switch back to the W2K UI. And most people I know did, to avoid the "Fisher Price UI". You cannot permanently switch back Windows 8 to the Windows 7 UI.

Windows Server 2012 DOES have the metro UI. Sad, but true. So many of our Blades have touchscreen.

You would be amazed. If you are not looking for completely obscure stuff which maybe two people on the whole planet like, but instead would like to have e.g. music which is ONLY sold in Japan (and not available via itunes, amazon, spotify, ... anywhere in the western world), there is an IMMENSE amount of websites which fill that gap (torrents with hundreds or thousands of seeders). I'd like to buy a lot of those CDs, I'd be willing to pay the usual $10 to $15 for an album, but I cannot download the stuff legally as mp3, e.g. via amazon and I cannot buy the physical CD except by ordering in directly in Japan and having it shipped here, which would end up at maybe $60 per CD or so. So I simply download the whole album as FLAC with cover scans like everybody else does.Seems they simply have not realized yet that they are missing out on a lot of money by not offering all the stuff worldwide, which really should not be any problem when you're talking about downloads.

Yes, definitely. Especially since the built-in graphics card will be able to handle all that graphics glory at the native resolution of the display. Or maybe not, and you'll have to scale down the resolution and it will look like crap (as some screenshots in various reviews already have shown). Oh, and thank god that 256GB disk space of the cheaper 15" model (no upgrade available) is large enough to have your OSX *plus* Bootcamp installs plus game and data (since, for games, you will need Windows on the machine).

... and let them watch each other. And enjoy the hilarity of seeing them both trying to serve ads to each other. And then implode.

Ah, good to know that there's a button for it. But... it's a setting, so why isn't there an option in, like, the "settings" dialogue? That's where I supposed most people would look, not on the tab itself, when all other global settings are in the dialogue window.

First thing I did was to look for an option to disable the "Newtab page" (the feature that Firefox shows you your most used websites including little pictures of them whenever you open a new tab). Seems the Firefox devs decided that this is such an important function that there is no option to disable it in the settings dialogue, or at least I could not find one. But you can disable it via about:config and then setting "browser.newtabpage.enabled" to "false". Guess that is handy if you do NOT want your boss/colleagues to find out about your "hotponysex" fetish whenever you want to open a harmless Intranet page while somebody standing next to you.

a Macbook Pro might be nice software-wise, because you can run everything under either Lion or Windows Bootcamp, but I am not to happy with the HARDWARE of my Macbook Pro (a late 2011 15"). The notebook has two very annoying "features". One is that it has a real heat problem - if you run a game or any other software which stresses both the CPU and the GPU, it is easy to get the CPU to a thermal level at which it throttles in self-defense (apparently there is one heatsink which is shared between the CPU and the GPU). Also, the Magsafe power supply is sized too small - there are lots of posts on the Apple forums by users who have the problem that when plugged in while using CPU/GPU-intensive software, their Macbook Pro not only does not charge anymore, it actually NEEDS the battery, too, to run. Meaning the battery is discharged and when it is empty, the notebook shuts down because the power supply itself cannot maintain the power needed.

Like I said, I own a Macbook Pro and I really like it for everyday work - since I upgraded it with a SSD and more RAM, it is under normal load a very quiet and nice-to-work-with piece of hardware. I am just very disappointed that unlike every other notebook I ever dealt with (e.g. the high end HP ones I get to use at work), it seems to be not designed at all for anybody who actually wants to use all the CPU/GPU power they put into it.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2787732

https://discussions.apple.com/message/17771835

Pretty sure that TV series is based on books which have been available for years already. So I don't know how one week more would make a difference.

True, but from what others have written here, you get an warning message "DUAL INPUT" yelled at you by the computer when both are trying to control the plane via the joystick, so it's not as if the pilots are not aware that the other one is also doing something. It seems that the pilot in this crash chose to ignore the warning that the copilot was also trying to control the plane for too long.

So yes - the Airbus system makes it impossible to feel what the other guy is doing when you hold the joystick, but you ARE aware that the other one IS doing something, too. And you can then tell him to let go of the joystick.

If you overclock because you enjoy tinkering with your hardware or if you actually need every little clock increase for whatever it is you're using your computer for, more power to you. But I think he has a point - overclocking is not as necessary anymore for "standard" users/gamers as it was a few years ago.

I, too, overclocked everything back in the days of the 486, Pentium, P2, P3 (plus the various AMD alternatives). But that was mostly because back then the clock increase actually made a huge difference when playing games, because most stuff was CPU limited. Overclocking my PII-400 to 450 actually meant I could choose more graphical details or maybe a higher resolution in the games without getting FPS which were too low to play.

But today, when I overclock my i7-2600K (which cost much much less than my PII-400 back then), I notice no difference at all in games or in any other application, even stuff which should be only about CPU speed (say, zipping a couple hundred megs of files). Yes, maybe I save a second or two when I zip files, but does that matter? Any CPU which you can buy right now (if you do not choose something extraordinarily slow like an Atom CPU etc.) is fast enough that it does not limit you in any meaningful way when you do normal stuff or even games on your computer. Gaming performance today is limited by the graphics card, not the CPU. So if you have a decent graphics card which allows you to play at the native resolution of your screen with full details, overclocking your CPU won't give you any noticeable benefit. And that's why I do not overclock anymore. I just don't notice any difference to the standard clock speed.

Like I said, if you overclock because it's fun for you or because you need to run extreme calculation tasks 24/7, go ahead. But for games or normal applications? Nah, not needed anymore.

Definitely not required reading in school. Would be no point in doing that anyway, since the whole book is just crap, nothing to learn there except that Hitler was not good at writing :-) Maybe some excerpts are used in history class somewhere to show how delusional Hitler was.

The book could not be bought anywhere because of the mentioned copyright, but it never was any problem getting your hands on an old version of it - basically every household back then in Germany had one, and many of those books survived to this day on some grandma's / grandpa's bookshelf. I know that my grandmother had one (she said that most people threw theirs away after the war, but she kept hers because it had an autograph in it), I think my uncle has it now.