I must need to update ad-block, it missed this one!

It is more like a chain letter, but in reverse.

It should be: "Get 4 other people to sign up OR Microsoft will teach you how to code"

And you think the utilities will suffer because of this? Here in Australia power companies have just started bringing in (opt-in for now) billing at different rates for different times of the day for all a house's power. They will simply make day-time power prices stay the same and increase prices for night-time usage, passing the loss on to customers as they always have.

Quite naive to think a company would accept the losses themselves.

Bet you are great fun around kids.

So, in regards to the other stuff, Brain and Brawn series? Planet Pirates? Doona?

I thought we were talking sci-fi, I was referring to the sci-fi books in the Pern series, not the fantasy. If you want to discuss fantasy then I have Elizabeth Moon, Kate Forsyth and Katherine Kerr as my preferred authors.

For me? Because when the rest of my diet is reduced to basic carbs, a dietary supplement (hospital grade sustagen) and liquids, then sometimes a diet soft drink is preferred.

Can't speak for the rest of people out there, my opinions are my own.

And if you are wondering why the dietary lockdown, crohns + T2 Diabetes. Basically anything with fiber, acid or undigestible matter (seeds, etc) is off the menu.

Heh, I was raised on Anne McCaffrey. I had dreams of integrating brains with computers, meeting alien species in a non-hostile manner, flying around on bio-engineered dragons and, above all, things generally working out okay for the majority of people.

Well, the single thing limiting how big a skyscraper we can build right now has nothing to do with structural limits and materials.

Elevator traffic. At some point you reach an elevator event horizon where adding a new floor on top means losing one or more floors at the bottom due to needing more elevators to move people to those new floors.

Spock, the captain and the holy Bones.

Then Picard can be the second coming :)

Do you work for Fox News?

Seriously, post his whole sentence not just the excerpt that gives you the most support for your lambaste.

And yes, calling you a fox news employee was ad hominem. But at least I based it off something you actually said/did, rather than invent something.

[citation needed]

You a biter then?

What I mean to say is, play the field, get something from each one (even if it is just some of the cooler stories each have) and don't swallow ;)

Only reason my 15 year old m0n0wall setup was replaced recently was how hard it became to find modern DSL PPPoE modems in retail outlets and the hard drive just stopped spinning. Still, 15 years out of one router (was a VIA integrated CPU + MB with a few gig of ram) is fairly good.

One downside I noticed recently is the silly change that makes the WAN (in my case DSL) password blank out once entered. I really don't see a point in that.

Yeah... considering how many overweight people will be buying them, that haven't seen their junk in years, I don't think they are going to do all that great for this use.

Not to mention you will get motion sick trying to focus on a moving image...

http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/...

My PC is a gaming PC, OS and applications is about 1.1 TB of storage on it.

Also, here, $50 will not get you an SSD. For around $100 I can get a 80GB one, but anything over 100GB quickly rise to hundreds of dollars+.