I personally never really had problems with vista perhaps because of never installing it on legacy hardware, but 7 was a huge improvment in performance/stability.

Compared to the dinosaur that is XPsp3 win8 is probably awesome.

Compared to vista/7 it is a fucking nightmare

You should stop reading slashdot, it's not for you.

How the fuck do you think the qr code redirected you to the "scratcher" ticket?

Also where they print a menu with "Fish of the day" which may be a completely different menu item from day to day, necessitating the price being set differently on different days.

Saves them having to reprint a menu every single day.

If he's using a 5 year old laptop he is not doing serious work on it.
It's probably a core2, probably 32 bit. Definately slow, hot and hungry for power by today's standards.

You can get some legs out of an older laptop by replacing the spinning disk with an SSD, but at that point you are spending 30% of the cost of a faster replacement for a slight extension in life when the rest of the laptop is starting to become pretty worthless.

You have obviously never installed mcaffee before

If you rear end someone you are by definition following too close and the accident is your fault. That means that if you get rear ended the person you should be suing is the one that dented your ride.
At least that is the law where I live (not in the US)

During a gold rush the only person who actually gets rich is the man selling shovels.

And in australia.

Pretty sure they released a mountain dew xtreme or some shit recently that is basically the US version except with actual sugar instead of corn syrup.

They also seem to think that inputting your password with an on-screen html keyboard using your mouse will provide *ANY* extra security.

The one thing that i'm happy about is that unlike commonwealth bank, they are not integrating facebook with their online banking system.
Just let that one sink in a little bit.... integrating FaceBook with your online banking

Hydraulic and transmission oil is changed far less frequently than engine oil.

Also all-electric cars don't have the same complex tranmissions since electric engines don't have the same narrow power band

Preferential voting is way better, it allows you to vote for your preferred minor party rep without missing out on your descision in the Red vs Blue battle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

Although there are some downsides, such as in the Australian senate where there are around 50 cadidates for each state in a half-senate election. Compared to the house of reps, where there are generally 4-8 candiates per electorate.
I don't think our solution to the "number all boxes from 1-50" problem is perfect, but most people would refuse to vote if they had to do that.

Pun intended?

Depends on the app.

Many .net apps either
1) use winforms
2) include unmanaged calls
3) use 3rd party toolkits that suffer from 1 and 2

Wpf apps shouldn't be too hard to port, but the UI paradigms are quite different so you will have to perform major surgery on that part of the app

If your phone had a robust backup procedure you wouldn't care either.

If i lose/break/whatever my iphone I can walk into an apple store, get a new one and leave with all my data (minus my music which will be added next time i tether since i dont' pay for itunes match) and applications restored to the phone using their wifi.