He was also an obese asthmatic and died from the strain of trying to run away from a volcano.

Oh, sexconker, you and your stories - "the study is wrong", "beer kills brain cells".... Now let's go back to that ... building ... thingie ... where our beds and TV ... is.

But refresh, as advertised, only works for modern "metro" apps. It does not do a clean refresh for the desktop which is what everyone uses. Or more specifically, for metro it will reinstall the apps for you but for desktop you will have to do this yourself.

Or at least this is what it said when I read the description from Microsoft. Thus I have never actually tried it because I don't want to blow my system away and reinstall everything.

I'd like to see package dependencies too. Microsoft applications are every much as convoluted as Linux apps when it comes to the files they depend upon. DLLs, shared directories, etc. But when uninstalling the applications they don't always uninstall the shared stuff cleanly. Ie, an app wants vbrun300.dll or such, so you visit the relevant Microsoft site and get it, but then you uninstall the original application but the dll is left behind; and there is no uninstaller for these libraries, they don't appear in the control panel.

I used to have a utility that would monitor all system changes during installation so that it could clean up later when uninstalling. Almost every time there would be some junk left over even after a successful uninstall. There would even be junk left over if you installed and immediately uninstalled without ever using the application.

Another problem is even if the application has an uninstall file, if it gets corrupted or lost then it's useless and the standard Microsoft uninstallation will refuse to run. This is not hard to do actually, just installing an application on top of itself will often cause severe confusion if you try to uninstall later.

IT is probably a bigger cause of slowdown than Microsoft. Corporate approved spyware stuck on the PCs and Macs, validating that all software running is on the approved list, periodically running audits, etc.

Microsoft went further than just having a bad registry, they essentially forced developers to use it if they wanted to get the approved sticker (ie, to say "works with Windows 95" or such).

Given this, Microsoft could have named this thing Windows 15 - adding up 7 & 8.

Technically 15 is 7 OR 8.

7 AND 8 is 0. Which might actually be more appropriate. Windows 0.

Technically Americans are allowed to go to Cuba; they're just not allowed to engage in financial transactions. That can be waived with a license from the Office of Foreign Assets Control.

http://www.treasury.gov/resour...

I agree that it's pretty ridiculous at this point though.

Fallout must come first before the crappy console games.

your reductionism to the point of condescension disqualifies you from having a meaningful opinion.

Hello, kettle!

I think those were proven to be done in a movie studio in Culver City.

I agree that "not allowing people to fly from those countries" is ridiculous, but only because it's insufficient as a quarantine measure. Exceptions can always be made for people and materials to enter a quarantine, since that doesn't affect containment, so the argument that medical personnel and drugs couldn't get there is specious. The key point is that they wouldn't be allowed to leave again until it was all clear, if such a thing was really necessary.

That said, it doesn't seem like that's a step that we as a planet need to take just yet. Basic controls appear to be working, at least on the global scale, with outbreaks isolated to populations with poor hygiene and a strong distrust of (mostly foreign, to them) medical workers.

Bureaucratic Time Units?

Well it says that you have the right to secure your persons, houses, papers, and effects. It doesn't say anything about cell phones. If the founding fathers had wanted you to have privacy on your cell phone, I'm sure they would have put something in there about that.