Not exclusive no, the US does license out that right to other countries :)

First off, I like alternatives as much as the other guy, I use firefox and opera as my main browsers. However, this complaint is just stupid. Are some of you so jaded that you can't stand the fact that you will be in IE for all of 30 seconds while you choose something else? You don't even have to manually go find your browser of choice, for the vast majority of us our choice is among the ones listed. This whole browser ballot thing is just an inconvenience for about 90% of the population out there.

I say this to customers and friends too, but I am serious. Norton AV is horrid. It does make your computer more unusable then most virii out there. It's sad to see how crappy the norton name has become. I still fondly remember using Norton Commander back in the DOS days, loved that program.

It's VERY annoying now. I built a CarPC and had it working well with my old WinMo phone, making/receiving calls over the BT connection, address book, and the like would come up on the computer screen (8" touch screen). My new magic is awesome, but I now have nothing BT wise working beyond a basic headset.

Well Rogers has both the original G1 and the Magic. The local Rogers outlets here in Southern Ontario have had them for several weeks at least (thats just the first time I went into a store, could be longer). Rogers is nationwide, so you should be able to find them there too.

One massive improvement Vista made to file copying over XP, is in relation to the prompting. In XP, if you start a file copy, say it's 20 gigs and thousands of files. You start it, and walk away as it will take a couple hours. You come back two hours later to see it as 3% done, with a prompt asking you something. FAIL. On Vista/7, with the same scenario, you come back to a prompt, but it's at 97% complete, because it did everything that didn't conflict first, and then prompted you at the end for the conflicts. WIN.

The first line of this summary is quite wrong. Intel has LOTS of Core2Duo's that do not support Intel VT. A quick look through their processor matrix will confirm this. Still, it's common practise for laptop manufacturers to disable things like VT on their consumer models. My Toshiba satellite has it disabled (not changeable in BIOS), but the pro version of it (same mainboard and cpu) has the option. I'm sure there is some way to get it working via a hex editor or something, but then we're into voiding warranties (if the bios gets fubared).

Agreed, this is a non issue, or at worst, a very tiny issue. For the very tiny amount of people out there that will run "Chkdsk -r" on a secondary partition, they may see almost all their ram used up while it is scanning the disk. If they have prexisting hardware or software glitches, it might blue screen on them. For the 90% of consumers who would never run chkdsk, and who don't have more then one parition, this is a complete non-issue.

Regarding a descent remake, interplay's website had a post last year saying they wanted to bring back some old franchises, thought they didn't say which. There was a picture with it, and right in the center was a blue descent shield orb. So maybe we will see Descent again. I can only hope.

I never found D3 overly laggy. I played D1/D2 on Kali and Kahn back in the day, and I found the PXO experience better in general. Even in D3, a large amount of people were on dial up and you'd see the ones with high pings skipping everywhere, but it was still quite playable and no more laggy then other online games of the day. I never had video card issues with D3 either. not sure if I am in the minority or what, but it ran great on both my Voodoo3 and later ATI video cards, I think I ran it in D3d mode after I upgraded past the Voodoo3. I do remember some people having issues with white boxes appearing and other artifacts, but I never had them. Kevin, did you attend Califest 1? I remember there were a couple guys there from Parralax/outrage. CDN_WingMan_^BoTS^ (Descent 3 name) :)

Indeed, Descent rocks. I still jump into Descent3 from time to time. I travelled North America going to descent2/3 lan parties in my youth.

I'm a little confused. I have a htpc/media center, and when I get a movie that has been compresed into multi-part rar files, I simply extract it to it's original file. If you have WinRar installed it's a simple right click, and pick extract here or extract to subfolder. One click, seems pretty simple. I fail to see how this is a critical feature to add to VLC. It seems simple to me to just setup something to automatically extract the rar's if you are too lazy to do that single click yourself. Of course I can't speak for everyones situation, there might be situations where this isn't possible, but to be it just seems like bloat.

There are tiny odds of just about anything happening, why is it news?

I've got Win7 on a few machines, ranging from a P4D 3.0ghz, to a C2Q6600. The P4 has 1gb of ram and an old geforce fx5200 and it runs 7 quite well. Oddly it keeps waking up from sleep every hour or so, then going back to sleep, then waking up, etc..