How well they do it is anyone's opinion, but they do it. Of course, that's a magazine that's not marketed to the general public. If they were going to do software reviews in media geared for the average American, then it would mostly be reviews of all the wrong software. It would still be interesting to see, and it would probably grow a decent readership, but it would have to keep focusing on stuff like browser plugins, smartphone apps, and utilities like recipe keeping software. Stuff that the average reader would find interesting.

Then there's also the disadvantage that you can only install so much software, so readership might taper off after a while. You can watch as many movies as you want, but there's only so much room on your smart phone when it's already filled with mp3's and bad snapshots.

When Windows 95 first came out, I replaced "shell=explorer" with "shell=progman" in system.ini so I didn't need to get used to the new interface at the same time I was getting used to all the other changes. In this case, though, I really hate it. Badly.

I'll probably have to learn to live with it at some point, though.

Thank you. I know there are 3rd party tweeks, but I hadn't gotten around to figuring out which, if any, are worth while. I'll take a look at that next time I have to boot Windows.

'zactly. David Cameron is calling for "social responsibility". These leaks are social responsibility.

I only use Windows for dual booting when I need Windows for some reason, which is rare, but XP was a solid and decent version of the Windows family. I'd have kept it if it weren't being sunsetted. I now have Windows 8 on my other partition. I hate the interface, passionately, but luckily I don't have to use it often. I felt like I had to move to 8 just to have software support.

Sad to see it go. It was the first decent OS Microsoft made.

Thanks, and that's exactly it. I don't care enough about gaming to even know what make and model it is, but I bought it because one title was good enough to justify the entertainment expense. As far as I'm concerned, the entire setup -- console, steering wheel and game media -- is just one driving game.

Gotta admit, I'm not much of a gamer. I played GT5 at a friends house, and was so in love with it I went and bought one. I basically just asked the guy at the store what I need to play GT5, and he sold me a console, a steering wheel, and the game. So the console is just "that black thing in my living room that has a steering wheel." So, yeah, it's a Xweestationthingie that I play The Car Game on.

In any event, this all goes to the point: A lot of people, like me, who aren't particularly interested in gaming, and (very clearly) have no knowledge of it, still buy a console just to play one game.

Cheers.

Damn. Meant GT5. Maybe I should have bought a pair of glasses to proof my posts with, instead.

I bought an xbox just to play GT3. It's a fun enough game that I was willing to throw down the extra bucks for a console and steering wheel just for that game. A lot of people buy a console just because they like one game that runs on it. Kind of a first world problem.

No, I got it. It was other people blocking off the passing lane, slowing the flow of traffic, causing traffic to back up, and creating road rage. You were nearly the victim of that bad situation, a situation that was created by someone up ahead blocking the passing lane, and exacerbated by a hyper-aggressive asshole in a big truck. If traffic were flowing smoothly, and the left lane was moving faster than the right lanes, as it was designed to do, then H-AA in the big truck would have been in the far left lane, staying in his lane, moving past you safely.

When you see a traffic jam for "no reason", no wreck or road work or anything, it was generally caused by people blocking passing traffic in the left hand lane. That's what creates these situations on interstates that become extremely dangerous for people back in the line.

Your story is exactly why driving slow in the passing lane is dangerous. If the person at the front of the long line of stuck traffic were to move over instead of riding the passing lane, then the psychopath in the black truck would have passed safely and gotten a ticket up the road somewhere. By the way, this is not just etiquette, in most states it's law -- and for a good reason. For example in Florida, "Driving too slow" is a traffic violation, and it's defined as "driving slower than traffic to your right." That means that you could get a ticket for both speeding and for driving too slow at once. If they enforced that more, then stories like yours would be less common.

"Slow" being defined as "being passed by traffic to your right". If traffic is passing you on the right, then you should get over to the right. It prevents accidents and pileups behind you.

I don't know about South Africa, but here in the States, if you have people tailgating you all the time, it means you're driving slow in the passing lane.