My biggest gripe with Windows 8 isn't the Metro interface. No, my problem is Microsoft saw fit to reduce a large Start button to a tiny 4x4 pixel area. How in the absolute fuck am I supposed to click that easily/quickly/reliably when using multiple monitors or Remote Desktop? And the Charms bar is even worse as it's only a single pixel (so it seems, but it can't be bigger than a 2x2 area) in which I can activate it. Again, how do they expect us to use multiple monitors or windowed remote desktop with this crap? It's like trying to run XP on a tablet and use your finger to operate it - ridiculous!

I agree with most of what you say, but this:

is retarded. Perhaps you don't like pinning apps to your taskbar, but the rest of us find it exceptionally useful. You don't like putting apps in your taskbar because you can't tell what's running? That's what the border is for. It couldn't be any more obvious. If that isn't good enough for you, try adjusting your resolution because you must be blind.

The MacBook Air doesn't have Gigabit Ethernet. When I want to move more than 10GB of stuff to my laptop, wireless doesn't cut it and neither does USB, even USB3 as firstly I actually need a spare drive to use and second I have to wait for the data to be transferred twice rather than once.

Of course, the other thing you get with Apple's rubbish is that you have to use their bullshit overpriced adapters and converters to connect a display, whereas with a PC ultrabook you just plug your stuff straight in cos it uses standard HDMI connectors and you get an included adapter for VGA if it has that. And of course you don't get all the other standard PC features like card readers and swappable memory/HDD.

Macbook Airs are really just overpowered thin clients rather than small laptops.

MSE is not free: it is free for home users. Business may use only up to ten free licenses before they are required to upgrade to Forefront. If you're a business and using more than ten copies of MSE, you're breaching the license agreement.

Source: the MSE download page

That is not correct, and is a non-argument. Sometimes you get some warning with a hard drive rather than sudden death, sometimes you do not. The frequency of drive death occurring suddenly rather than over time will vary with personal experience, but regardless: if you value your data, then you should never just assume that a drive will give you warning before your data suddenly disappears into the void!

Compared to what other brand - Samsung? WD? Toshiba? I know of no data which suggests that one popular brand's modern drives are any more or less reliable than that of any other. These days, they are all about the same. Any preference or suggestions that I've seen for one brand or another are based purely on anecdote. Case in point: just over a month ago, I had my second drive failure in two months, and they were both WDs - Caviar Blacks, no less. One of them had been going strong for almost two years before it failed. The only sensible thing to do is distrust all storage, no matter the brand, and keep backups (and plenty of them).

FTFY

Uh, sorry mate, but that's not correct.

Your problem is that you see things in black and white, when in reality there are many shades of grey. This is a fallacy related to the false dilemma.

Really? Are you sure? Why don't you go and think over what you've just said there a bit more and get back to us.

I don't, and I'll help you out a bit here: American populace != American Government. In addition, the mere fact that they democratically elect their governement does not in any way suggest that any individual American nor the populace as a whole, agree with every single act and decision of their governing body. When they criticise other nations for human rights abuses, they frequently direct the same criticism toward their own government. And you've still stereotyped them regardless.
Regardless of their hypocrisy, a valid criticism is still a valid criticism.

Maybe (s)he is, but then again, you're drunk on your own bullshit too.

I use them like bookmarks. Bad habit, I know. Whenever I'm doing something that gets shoved to the side in favour of something else, I leave the tabs open so I can resume where I left off, and to remind me to come back to them. Sometimes I go back to them and finish with them, sometimes I never get around to it. Over time they just stack up.

Every now and again I go on a tab-closing rampage and close 80% of them. It's probably getting around about that time now...

Well, right now, Firefox 9 on my work system is using 568,948K of RAM and I have 73 tabs open. It has been open all day, with heavy usage for most of it. I sometimes put my work box to sleep instead of turning it off.

I personally find that Chrome is better at managing small numbers of tabs and Firefox is better at managing many tabs. If I have saved around 10 tabs on each, Chrome always starts up within two seconds and loads all saved tabs quickly, and uses around half the RAM Firefox does. Firefox takes around 10-15 seconds or so before it's fully ready and uses twice as much RAM as Chrome does. In this way Chrome is a lighter and faster browser. However, if I have more like 50 saved tabs in both, then I find Firefox is ready to go sooner and uses far less RAM (30-40%) than Chrome does.

Some people find Firefox is fine, others find it is a huge hog. I get this behaviour on all my systems on which I have both installed (ranging from Atom based to Sandy Bridge machines), but I have had friends say they have the opposite experience I do. So it depends on the user and the sites they visit, the number of tabs people keep open, the extensions they have installed and their browsing habits.

I found the file on my phone, as another commenter posted it is in /var/root/Library/Caches/locationd/consolidated.db. I also found one in /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreLocation.framework/Support/consolidated.db that is five times as big. It also seems to contain location data from cell as well as WiFi APs. I wonder what that file is for?

Hmm. Even though my approximate whereabouts are available to law enforcement should they demand it from my carrier, I'd still rather not have the phone recording my every move. I wonder if I could rename the file and create a symlink to /dev/null in its place? I'd do it right now and find out what breaks, and rename the file back again if I kill something but I don't want to brick the phone and have to worry about restoring etc... rather keep my jailbreak.