Try that with chrome,ie8,safari,... please and let us know if your windows is crashing. Because chrome will open up a seperate sub-process for each task resulting in much more overhead for windows. And ie8, well i don't have to draw a picture of it.

Wait, i can remember that storie, isn't that from one of the superman movies?

I hope your not a big shot in a company because that would be to easy to shoot your arguments down. Wasn't it capitalistic American companies that forced drinking, smoking and fastfood on they're people to make a profit an make there shareholders even richer on the money of the shareholders neighbours? Are these rich people not obligated to help the people they extorted into sickness? And what about people with genetic diseases that where caused by toxic substances they (or there parents, grandparents,...) had to work with to support the rich Americans? Most of us don't fully choose there destructive lives some of us where born in it or even pushed into it and are to tired fighting it when there first thought is to stay alive. Sorry that this sounds cruel but my father had to work hard to make a good live for his family and died early of cancer and I was lucky to climb up in live and have a nice education and a good payed job, so I'm one of the persons that can appreciate such safety nets even if it only helps 1 million of the 35 million people. And less then 1% off the American defense budget is small change for 35 million people.

If i understand the US-founders correctly they had a country in mind where everybody is equal and even the poorest have right to a respectable life in America. This bill tries to get the people who earn more help the people who earn less get a healthy life. If you earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year then you can spare a couple of grant to help a poor family get health insurance that is most likely required because of doing the kind of jobs the rich don't wanna do anymore.

O no i'm getting flashes of the matrix movies

I'm having the exact same problems with PulseAudio, some of them are related to SDL not being 100% compatible with pulseaudio, but not all of them use SDL.

Actually i never said the catalyst would change the direction of the reaction. I said the catalyst change the circumstances, In fewer words than you do.

Your contradicting yourself, if it is energetically favorable then no catalyst should be necessary because a catalyst is used to circumvent a difficult step in the making process which would normally not accure. While this company claims they have found a way to use IR to deteriorate plastic back to oil-like products without a catalyst. And this is seen (more or less) over long periodes of time in nature itself for some plastics. So it's not completely nonsens.

But most of us disable the build in firewall because my dog keeps out more virusses than it does in XP and install a 3rd party firewall of which we cannot yet be sure it well filter out the problem and it shouldn't have to do so either. So i have to agree with the mentality of most readers here, microsoft is ending support of XP 4 years earlier then what they promised when they extended the support to 2014. 2 simple solutions, we force microsoft to fix it, or we fix it our selfs. And the last one is no option because it would be illegal according to most copyright laws.

but one that can easily be made more difficult for malware writers, computers containing malware often have no or bad security, if they improve this per user then the average difficulty for malware writers will increase and hopefully make our lifes beter.

There is my problem: " after 2 weeks or so". I suspect you mean hourly use during those 2 weeks. Because it's on my pc for the last 6 months and i use Ms Office like once a week for simple excel stuff and once every 2 weeks for real typing and i'm still at a loss. Numbering is a hell in 2007 and generating a decent table of content failed the first 10 times i tried it. For those things i save and open in OOo, because in that layout i can find my way around it in a matter of seconds and have the job done in, o i don't know, 1% of the time it takes me in 2007. We are a small firm, we don't have the time to follow courses like in big firms. And what i have heard from friends and family, they all work slower in 2007 then when they were using office 2000/xp or even 2003. I have to agree with sunderland that i hope OOo drops the idee or at least allows multiple UIs so we can select which one to use.

As noted in the article, old fat-filesystem interpreters might have problems (like in dos) but according to the creator it works in the windows version that can read long names. But you have a good point, i know that you can display short names in windows xp using api-calls which could become a problem for some applications. To bad TomTom quit the fight against the microsoft patent.

Do you really expect to find a politician on this planet without some kind of criminal connection? My point is not that people can't know about there politicians past actions, it's just that there are also other people out there who might benift this law for the beter and that press freedom isn't as big a right as individual freedom.

And what about the right of a reformd criminal to try to bring his life back on track. Maybe 2/3 of the criminals stay criminals, but the other 1/3 has the right to reintegrate in the community. And it is the task of the government to keep an eye on them, not the press. Unlimited press freedom isn't always a good thing if the press manipulates the story to sell more.