I'm also outside the US but I voted 10% or more for the same reason that others vote for this: The rest of my goverment sucks in money management so use it for something that creates beter technologie and has a return on investment posibility

FF9 doesn't crash my NVidea drivers, FF10 does, and this because all the 3d bullshit after FF 4 Now I'm on Chrome which also uses 3d rendering but doesn't crash my XP. and i'm getting used to it being faster and smoother most of the time. Oh yeah, upgrading Hardware and OS isn't a real fast option in our company because the IT guys still promote IE 6

ok then why not talk about how 100y ago nobody thought the speed of sound could ever be broken by human beings. The point isn't the myth about "the earth that once was flat and now is round" but the fact that sometimes humans limit their own way of thinking until somebody proves it to them right before their eyes. And physics still being a science that eventually needs to prove it's statements is a real incarnation of that way of thinking. (This doesn't prove that the research isare correct but that we might not be smart enough yet to see past the speed of light if that where somehow possible)

Is my math wrong but i come to different numbers:

20'x8'
135TB * 280 = 36.9 PB
2^88 Bytes = 274 877 906 944 PB
=> ~ 7.5 Billion shipping containers

1 container = 160 ft => 1miles = ~174240 containers => ~43000miles
=> stack 8 high => 5380miles => 73 miles to each side

40'x8'
135TB * 1400 = 184.6PB
=> ~ 1.5 Billion shipping containers
1 container = 320ft => 1 miles = ~87120 containers => ~17220miles
=> stack 8 high => 2152miles => 47 miles to each side

maybe there is some space left beneath area 51

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.