Second this. I went through the same process, being forced to use a damn finger-painting interface on my big dual screens and suffering Metro telling me how my apps should look. It's like being held hostage by a hostile interior decorator. I grabbed Start8 and can honestly say that it saved my laptop.

Why didn't they name the two impact sites after Columbia and Challenger?

I laughed at first, but it really should be on the list. The other three things are more clear and present threats while AI might be a distant possibility, true. But those other three things are not driven by a fast-thinking computer that can act faster than we can react. An AI threat might start later but it would sure catch up fast. Put differently, the learning curve for us vs. AI might be really steep. We'd better start climbing that curve before they pass us.

Only pens I use. I even etch my name into the barrel so it comes back. The thinner ones write very smoothly with minimal blobbing. (F-301) The heavier knurled grip F-701 writes nearly as smooth but it's heavy so I hope you have manly hands. It also looks much more expensive than it really is, so it makes me look like I can stretch my grad student's salary much further than it really goes.

Not true. Jabba the Hutt spoke Subtitle.

I once had Malwarebytes identify ATAPI.SYS as malware and remove it. That update also lasted a few hours but left lots of angry customers with expensive bricks to repair.

Because he ain't overlooked. He's a rock star of sci-fi. Well, maybe the bass player behind Neil Gaiman.

She's great but hardly overlooked. Maybe by Trek Wars fans. Just finished Doomsday and it was excellent. She has a real grasp on personalities.

Ellison purportedly wrote an I, Robot script. That's something I'd like to see. The lowbrow action flick was terrible. Two brains? The robot has a secret f***ing brain? That's the plot twist?!

Good stuff but uneven quality. VALIS? Also, nuts. Still, Androids, Scanner, Policeman, and Second Variety are enough to be proud of and retire on that alone.

Dang, didn't see this and posted my own. Gene Wolfe for the absolute utter win. I think other authors can stop now. Wolfe already reached the peak. And the Pringles angle!

I don't know. Not so thrilled with the Academy (Hutchins) series, and the Benedict novels have become formulaic. The first four were great but I'm afraid he's beginning to just churn. How about the Miles Vorkosigan books by Bujold? Also an iconic and charismatic protagonist who rarely fights his own battles, but with a much higher tempo. And the entire series from beginning to end, including short stories, does not sag at all.

Absolutely Wolfe. He was a writer's writer, with strong but silent Hemingway-ish protagonists who told the story by what they did not say. Wrote a series "The Book of the New Sun" where the main character is a congenial and level-headed torturer on a dying Earth far in the future. Mr. Wolfe also developed the machine that makes Pringles. How could such genius be overlooked?

Why should they be fired? Their job is public relations, not honesty.