Amusing fact: I'm working on publishing a math-heavy work in a biology journal with the original written in TeX. They only take Word. Oy. But the journal is pretty awesome and said they'd try to find a way to use the TeX for the final version if it gets to the publishing point.

Seems to me they really *are* shooting themselves in the foot with this. Consider people like myself:

• Look at D&D rules via OGL SRDs
• Download some PDFs and realize they are a bit easier to find information in, and I enjoy much of the artwork
• Purchase several dead-tree versions to the tune of a few hundred dollars. Cash to WotC.

The 4th ed policies make SRDs harder, and with no PDFs to help draw me to paper versions ... well, they'd entirely have lost customers like me, and several of my friends who did the exact same thing. Bad idea, WotC.

Your numbers are problematic ... I should point out 4.7+6=10.7. Couple this with the 200% increase according to the study linked by jeorgen, and you get an anticipated autism rate of 10.7+2x10.7=32.1/10k. That is to say, a number slightly higher than what you quote.

Impressive, as changing TCP/IP settings takes six clicks, and getting to the advanced status takes three:

1. Right-click Network icon in taskbar
2. Click "Network and Sharing Center"
3. Click "Status" by your connection
4. Click "Properties" on the resulting status screen
5. Click "Internet Protocol Version X (TCP/IPvX)" on the resulting list summary of all connection aspects
6. Click "Properties"

Of course, a single click gives you a basic status, and the second click gives you a good network summary. This is (if I recall) one click more than XP, but the intervening window is generally more relevant to what I want to do than the connection properties window. If it takes me one additional click so I have a more useful dialog in the interim, I'm fine with that. In any case, it doesn't take 1 click to access properties in XP, nor does it take 15 clicks to access TCP/IP settings.

I think that says more about your Windows usage than Vista. Its been a Windows convention to use "Alt" to reveal (even hidden) menu options since about Win95. Otherwise, the way to show file extensions is identical to 98 in Vista.

Also, I don't know what crazy universe you are living in, but in the control panel, "navigate up to the previous menu" is the same as the rest of the operating system — click the parent on the address bar. Very simple.

You, and people like you, just are bashing Vista because you hate change, and not really any other good reason. Its damn painful to go back to XP, because its so much less productive and so much harder to find things. Besides, everyone at /. is supposed to be a nerd, but apparently the addition of more keyboard shortcuts in both Vista and 7 is easily overlooked because RAWR IT'S M$.