When Win7 came out, to much praise, I sat down at home and did some thorough tests. I am a developer who uses some resource-intensive applications for 3D visualization, physics simulations and graphic design. Currently my OS of choice is XP 64-bit.

When I compared the two however, while Win 7 stood out as being superficially faster through caching everything and *appearing* to boot your OS and your applications in a split second, prolonged use of these applications under this OS just ground to a snails pace over the course of a single weekend of use on a 16GB machine.
While WinXP64 didn't boot as fast or launch applications as quickly, it never crashed (Win7 crashed multiple times), performance within the applications I use was exponentially better when loading and managing large files, and the overall experience was much more robust.

Ultimately what it seemed to me was that Win7 was geared toward selling you a copy of itself in the store. 5 minutes of use will show you what appears to be an extremely fast OS that launches whole applications like they were text files. In reality it's Vista with an extremely efficient booting process and nothing more.

MS continues to push the bar though! XP used to be the worst OS you could make your machine suffer to run, but if history repeats I'm sure they'll release something so far worse in the future, after XP is deprecated and beyond maintaining, that will make me fall absolutely in *love* with the features of Win7.

What does this mean for someone like me, who lives life by my own idea of morality, which is "Do whatever you want as long as you bring no harm to another"?

Maybe they're interpreting "harm" differently.

I love stuff like this. I think every creative person, at one time or another in their life, has "created" something that, hours, days, or years later they find to be an existing term, name or trademark.

I feel for you brother! Teaches you to keep your truly unique creations close to your chest...

My girlfriend majored in Library Science. Until I started dating here I had completely forgotten that libraries even existed. They are such an invaluable resource for modern society, but the administration of them and their publicly funded nature leave them easily overlooked. We check out books, audiobooks and DVDs from our local library constantly. I wish more people would use them, since we're already paying for them anyhow.

As an aside, I certainly wish more carried games, and it makes me weep to know they've basically missed out on 30+ years of a historical medium, but I think the industry and publishers are more to blame for that.

"...also take part in the CPU design of the console"

Wait... Why did Sony spend all that time, money and research on making their assumed super-scaling, awesomely powerful cell processor, if they're thinking of recreating a new CPU for their next console? Am I missing something there?

"If you were waiting for the One Game to do justice to Tolkien's universe... well, keep waiting."

Or play lotro (www.lotro.com)!