Mel? Oh how you've fallen.

I seem to remember it was for a generic "We're making an MMO" type place, not anything related to hardware design though

This this this. If you're going to go through all the trouble to do it in minecraft, why not do it on some CPLDs. You probably won't get as much internet fame, but you'll e able to show that off on the job/college hunt!

My preference is forward-up, because that's how I think spatially while driving. When I was learning to drive I rarely sat down with a paper map, I just jotted down enough directions to get me to where I needed to be and learned surrounding streets/businesses while driving.

Much more distracting than that was the giant billboard with a picture of a woman's derriere and the scorching light of a thousand suns.

Does XBMC sound better to you?

Well, original Xbox isn't supported anymore.

Yes!

I seem to remember when they gave up support on xbox, the official name was changed to just XBMC. So it's not an acronym anymore.

This is for the people who want a 10 foot interface on their little nettop hooked up to the TV.

The Apple crowd is by far the most vocal? In my college experience it was the Apple haters that were the most vocal.

Wasn't logged in, unfortunate!

It's unfortunate that the barrier to entry for hardware/robotics is still pretty high. I remember trying to break into the hobby when I was in highschool 5-7 years ago. My parents still weren't quite on board with ordering something over the internet that wasn't from Amazon or some other trusted site (not arduino, but some other uc+programmer kit). Getting into programming was also a bit of an ordeal, but I was able to secure a copy of Visual Studio and do an independent class which involved me blindly fumbling about with Visual Basic.

Having said that, I've been sending out Launchpad kits to friends who have seemed interested, because they're amazingly cheap.

I like to keep Windows on its own little drive for this reason. The only problems occur when I need to do major updates (Win7 SP1 comes to mind) where I have to set up boot order so the Windows disk comes first so it can pretend it is a unique and special snowflake and get on with installation.

Program Files is locked down nowadays, so any applications that try to write there end up going to VirtualStore or something like that in the Users folder. (I think. I don't actually use Windows that much.) But I agree with the sentiment, there are way too many places for data to hide.