It took me a while to remember that the ribbon can be collapsed by double-clicking on any tab (the actual tab part). Once you know where the controls that you use are located, collapse the ribbon, and single-click a tab to open it for the duration of the command, and then after you click the command, it will snap back shut.

I can't believe no one has said anything about OperaTor yet. Mostly because it's the only one I was aware of before this article
Is it because OperaTor doesn't appear to be in development anymore (as in dead).

Will someone please define the word "chemical" for us?

So, how do you call the power company when the electricity goes out? I mean the first time the electricity goes out, I mean (because by the time the electricity goes out for the second time, you will have looked up the number and put it in your cellphone.) Wait, no, you just look it up on your cellphone the first time, because your cellphone can access the internet.
I guess people with cellphones that can't access the internet to look up a number are becoming as rare as people with no cellphone and only a cordless phone on their landline.

The Secret Service can bring any phone they want to work on to my workplace, and work on it at their leisure. You can't get a wireless signal inside my building to save your life. Plenty of time to crack the phone without it being remotely disabled.

Tracking small rocks like this might seem like a waste of time, until we predict one that is going to hit a major populated area - lives could be saved.

I don't know, It's one thing to know when a small rock will hit the earth, and another thing to predict where it will hit within a few miles. And then yet another thing entirely to know where to send all of the evacuees. It it looks like it will hit Dallas, do we completely evacuate the whole metroplex? And how far do they go? If you are not careful, it may hit wherever people evacuated to and kill more people than had everyone stayed put.

**cricket** cricket**

To the contrary, I was living in South Carolina when I learned what a "liquor-cycle" (pronounced "licker-sickle") was (a moped).

I see what you did there.
Thought I couldn't argue with you because my keyboard doesn't have one of those fancy "L" symbols on it, didn't you?
Well, I know how to copy and paste as well as the next guy: £

(ha!)

Microsoft's support lifecycle policy was reasonable, when the company stopped selling a given operating system years before its mainstream support ended. But since they were allowing the sale of new computers with Windows XP installed pretty recently, and are still selling new computers with Windows XP install disks, perhaps they should extend the mainstream support a little more as well.

Just Sayin'