Maybe just put a treadmill in front of the keyboard instead of a chair. A slow to moderate walking pace should be easy enough to adapt to for typing and would probably increase blood flow to the brain. I know going for short walks once or twice an hour improves my productivity (and creativity) while working on computers.

Did you read the article? (No, you didn't) It points out most modern Windows systems automatically use PAE because Microsoft has turned on DEP by default where supported. It appears 32bit desktop Windows has a limitation imposed by the licensing code since around XP SP2, not some option you can disable. It also points out most applications don't use anywhere near 4GB of memory (yet at least) and the primary practical use of that much RAM these days IS multiple applications.

At least some use the term "framelag" which, while still somewhat questionable from a technical perspective, does indicate there is a distinction. What always amazes me is the number of "experts" you run into in online games that lecture you incorrectly about the technical details of any issues occuring in game. I wish people would learn enough to know how ignorant they are or are not before making assertions as an "expert".

I agree on the pretty graphics front. If we continue to expect newer and better quality graphics all we do is push the development costs and end-user hardware costs up to the point we get nothing but recycled sequels with no real content while paying rediculous sums of money. I'd rather fun games with old school graphics over super-pretty games that you forget in 2 weeks because they are hollow shells. I don't buy that a game is good because its super pretty, I say its good if people still play it 5 years later.

Given that car accidents are the 5th or 6th highest cause of death in most 'developed' countries... I'd say most people use the wrong criteria and/or dangerously overrate their ability. Lets not sugar-coat this, people think they are better at driving than they are and take more risks as a result.

Sony is such a large company, the left hand probably has no clue what the right hand is doing. Give it time, I'm sure eventually the evil root kit department will catch on. The format supports some DRM, I'm sure using that and creative interpretations of the standards they can break interoperability.

After all, why sell a customer a working product when you can repeatedly sell them replacements for a defective product? I say this as I remember how Sony portable music players went from high quality near-indestructible products to DRM ridden a few years ago.

No, -1 misleading. Seems this is as likely a feature of greed, them wanting to control bad press in order to expand the event and make more money. I am sure organizers can get greedy no matter where on the political spectrum you or they view the event. I know, the world would be so much easier if you could just lump people and viewpoints together like that and label them as wrong.

I could point out that the phenomenon your referring to isn't a feature of a liberal system, it occurs despite of your political lean, but...

It always amazes me how people throw things into one of two buckets "liberal" and "conservative". One of the buckets is good and one is bad, depending on the person. How about instead of using inconsistent terms like that we get right to the point, call the categories "us" and "them". Remember you don't have to think about it too much, ignorance is a plus when putting "them" down.

So what your saying is you need a pin with a really REALLY sharp point so you can search for new exotic particles?

Unfortunately, these studies are probably aimed at the doctors, not the patients. Convince the doctor and often you've convinced the patient. The doctor's intent usually isn't the problem.

Just what we need, drug companies further muddling the waters so not even doctors can tell which treatments are useful or necessary. No wonder we see large movements away from things like vaccinations, which save lives. People are left with too many doubts and questions, fear doesn't lead to good decision making.

Well, it is pretty offensive as well. Making fun of a minority that in fairly recent history has been frequently abused, oppressed and even murdered. It'd go over better if it didn't leave certain things implied or in question.

The money has to come from somewhere. Having an ad on your screen does noone any good if you just ignore it.

Sadly, the quality control on many banner ads is lacking. Scams, attempts to exploit bugs, et cetera. This is the same industry that produces spam and most of the malware these days.

Maybe we should be trying to find better alertnatives for funding instead of relying on an industry which is usually best served by misinforming, tricking and ripping people off or at the very least intrusively forcing information on people.

Yes, I expect the paid sites will have ads as well. Greed is a wonderfully consistent that way.

I'm also fairly certain the ads on those pay sites will contain just as many scams and exploits. Oh and don't forget all the bright flashing ugly-as-anything crap they throw at you.

Personally, of the sites I use regularly, the ones where I can pay to disable ads, I do. The ones I can't, I use adblock.

Google gives me links on why Windows and Microsoft Office are expensive.

Bing gives me links on why commercial opensource software is expensive, why gas is expensive and why Macs are expensive.

It feels like Google is trying to find answers to my question, and Bing is returning Microsoft webpages with similar phrases and word matches then other pages with word matches. Makes the Bing search algorithm seem pretty weak, reminds me of using Yahoo a decade or so ago.