Mmm, you mean like all those people that will want 3D LCD and therefore will require double the current FPS to look as smooth as it does today?

Exactly my point of view to. Intelligence is simply a measure of raw power, like MFLOPS (all the D&D geek references were already posted so I had to find another one). It simply state that your brain is able to do some basic tasks like pattern recognition and similar stuff. You need much more to be "smart", you need to be able to filter the basic information you found your "processing" on, you need to analyze the outputs to see if they actually make sense, you need to make sure you factored in all the necessary variables. To me, "smart" is probably more of a methodology than an actual quality; intelligent people will only be smart faster :P.

It would have been nice to also include the time it takes to do a clean install of Vista on the low/med/high end machine and also a clean install of Win7. The benefit of those extra numbers would be to know if one should go Retail/OEM vs Upgrade for Win7.

I'm among the few (1-5%) who suffer from amblyopia, this, among other things, mean that stereoscopic 3D has no real effect on me. On another thought I think the way they decided to go is a rip-off. First, I think Sony plans on delivering 3D only on top-of-the-line 240Hz TVs, when 120Hz is enough (ok, not ideal, but who cares). Second, they probably could have introduced a 3D upgrade kits for existing TVs instead of something completely new; such kits are already available for PC for ~200$.

Everybody knows that 73% of people will believe anything you say when you state numbers in your claims and it rises to 91.7% when you add decimals... :P

Hey, I have good faith in NVidia, they already fulfilled half of that promise ... I think their current product is crap.

Mmmmm, made me think of this.

I never considered an occasional depression a disorder and this tends to prove it; depression would just be a state of mind to help you solve the problem that caused the state of mind in the first place. To me people that are always depresses or even always happy are probably the ones suffering from a disorder.

Pidgin crashed on me maybe twice in the last year. I actually switched from Trillian to Pidgin and found Pidgin much better. The only big downside I found with Pidgin is the MSN file transfer support. Then again, if it was such a problem for me, I would just contribute to the project to fix that :P.

The power of choice: change IM client. There are tons of free IM client, just change it to something else like Pidgin.

The things that can take much space are: temporary files, restore points and WinSxS. You can fix the first with softwares like CCLeaner, restore points you can just disable or remove older ones (with Windows utility I think, I simply disable it so not sure) and the last (winsxs) you are screwed :P

Over time I used SQLite for various purposes:

• Small persistence layer in school project (Java).
• In custom Ant tasks to store metrics and various information.
• Even used it to replace the storage of an MS Access based application in C++ we were trying to port to other OS.

So SQLite is quick, portable, self-contained and ... lite :P