I guess it depends on the application.

For example, I recently got to play Thief for the first time in years - it refused to play on Vista. The only reason I had Vista installed in the first place was in case I wanted to play some games.

It seems to me that when the games I want to play (command and conquer, dungeon keeper, alpha centauri, thief) work better and are easier to install in Wine than in Vista, I don't see the point of using Windows at all.

I think you may be wrong there.

would you say:
a) "all of the data in a computer is crap"
b) "all of the data in a computer are crap"

I know that 'data' is technically a plural, but it's not treated that way by most people.

also - "ones and zeros" is correct. If you were asked "what numbers are there in that hard-drive", you would not answer "ones or zeros"

also, to the other replier - "zeros" and "zeroes" are both correct.
http://www.bartleby.com/68/49/6649.html

arghh.... "give it to me baby, uh-huh, uh-huh"

damn - change your sig. /me burns karma

maybe a silly question, but wouldn't running multiple benchmarks simultaneously cause spurious results?

> Petric used his father's key to open a lockbox and remove a 9mm handgun

so what was the father (a pastor) doing with a gun in the first place?

whatever happened to "thou shalt not kill"? or was he planning on maybe clubbing burglars over the head with the stock of the gun when they entered the house?

> Games aren't meant to be simulations, they're meant to be fun.

what about simulation games?

"schools that switch save tens of millions of dollars"

"the world could save up to $500 million each year"

paraphrased: "nothing == everything"

you are an idiot.

are you mad??? if light had infinite mass, then every torch would act like the Half-Life 2 gravity gun.

no... if you turned the torch on, you would be instantly destroyed.

there is no such thing as "infinite" in reality - every case where "infinity" turns up is a case where the existing maths is not quite up to describing reality.

silly me. picture in article doesn't look remotely VTOL.

but in that case, i don't really see the point - if it's not a VTOL, it would need to take off and land at airports, in which case why not just use an airplane?

are these things not VTOLs? in which case, why would they need a runway?