My thing with the 'data' is when you consider those Facebook users who friend *everyone* because that is just how they use the service. Case in point:

I was listening to a local radio personality who was telling a story about how he un-friended someone and the huge fallout that happened because of it. At one point he lamented over the fact that since he had over 800 friends, and asked like who dosen't!, how was he supposed to know that person was someone that he actually worked with. (Not directly but they are a part of the same company.)

To me while the whole 6 degrees thing has always been more of a fun social thought game, trying to say that what Facebook has done here is anything more than that does not ring true.

This is an intresting point and I think, as well as my crystal ball ever works, valid as well.

That being said there are some noteable differences between the Apple back then that was a PC company and Apple now. A big one being the vast amount of cash they have now. No longer are they going to have to rely on a handout from MS just to stay afloat.

And THAT being said there also is the fact that they no longer have Jobbs and so...yeah.

So someone who just wants to hobby code a project/driver/whatever and give it away is a bad person?

Think about what you said for a moment. Yes I agree that there is a point to what you are saying overall but you lost me with that right there.

This actually lasted up until AQ40 and Naxx40. However in both those raids the whole raid really needed to be on top of their game or you can and would wipe.

Citation needed.

I have seen more websites that ask that I have Netscape v3.0 or higher than I've seen websites that did not work with Firefox. And that is with NoScript and ABP installed!

I have to wonder if this is part of the reason why MS has forced their 'ribbon' menu on everyone. To force the majority of those who still use MSO to become used to that setup.

And I also wonder if MSO was not a defacto standard would MS have provided an option to include the standard drop down menu/tool bar setup rather than forcing UI changes on people.

My old hardware hack was a 486SX that had IIRC 8M of memory. It was an old Gateway desktop (the old style case where it was designed to sit on your desk with the monitor on top) that I don't even remember where I got it. I had it running 95/98 at some points for my dad at a real estate office he was working at on and off to use with some awful 14" CRT. (They would not have had a computer period had we not put that thing there. But that is another story.)

So once I got it back I was in need of a router. Installed Barebones RH v5.0 and removed every package that it did not absolutly need to run to get enough room to install GCC and some other things on it. It ran ipchains like a champ for a few years. I remember one of the NICs was a 3Com who's driver had been written by some guy at NASA back in the day.

One day the PSU fan's bearing went so I had to pull it and did not have a replacment for it and so it ran totally fanless for a while after that until I retired it. I don't mind having my much smaller, more modern, and lower power all in one wifi router but I do kinda miss my old pizza box router sometimes.

I've yet to see any real personal drop off in the quality of Google's searches. I have to say that with some effort, tweaking my search terms and the search tools, most of the time I am able to find what I'm looking for for even relativly obscure things.

That being said I honestly don't shop around like I did in the 90's when if one search engine did not find something for me I'd move to the next.

Did you ever see the video about how Google disposes of/recycles their hard drives? (Video Google 'google data center')

I'm quite sure they have a protocal for how they recycle all of their hardware.

Grin.

I think the reason would be that most laptops only have the one hard drive port. So if someone wanted the benifits that using a SSD plust some storage space they would have to get a big one.

Of course his particular issue seems like it screams for a nice big USB drive solution but shrug.

Sounds like the old option when installing from CDs. Where the game would leave some parts of the data, like movies and sound, on the CD.

Now the question is the SSD market saturation high enough to warrent game makers to program that type of option into the game. My gut says no but it is indeed an intresting idea.

That is the thing with anecdotal evidence it is not factual. And as such when people bash Seagate/WD/Intel/AMD/Ford/Chevy whatever unless they back it up with fact it has no weight.

For some reason it is popular to bash Seagate, I see this all the time on the hardware forums. But it is important to take that for what it is. Nothing.

As I get closer and closer to building a HTPC I have been looking at remotes and while spending $100 for a remote is not even topping out how much you could spend, there are options that are a fair bit less too. The Loftk Rii Portable Remote for example.

I agree that your overall point is valid but do you really think MS is going to 'audit' home users anytime soon?

Don't get me wrong, MS is evil but they are not stupid...well not that stupid.