Windows Vista was the set-up to make Windows 7 look good. Now, they are switching things up so that there is no obvious continuation of the "Bad Word Version saved by Good Numbered Version" pattern followed by ME/2000, Vista/7.

Windows 8 is clearly lowering the bar and defecating on the playing field to make sure that Windows Chasm is a savior-success story.

There are people out the smoking cigarettes, for crying out loud. Not to mention saving injured woodpeckers and selling fresh milk.

Seems like there are more important things for the government to be doing rather than changing speed limit signs.

Something Austin Powers wouldn't go near or attempt to save, I expect.

You mean Bill Gates is the enemy?

Welcome to Slashdot!

"Shit happened, how can I exploit it to force other people to stop doing things I dislike?" would be closer.

The ghouls of all stripes are dancing in the blood of these children to push their own personal political agendas, whether it is banning video games, goths, guns or "loners".

Most, but not all.

Any chance of providing a link. The site http://sc12.supercomputing.org/ doesn't appear to have downloadable papers.

"Assault Rifle" is a technical term, for a light rifle firing an intermediate round that is capable of selective fire, switching between semi-auto (one round fired per trigger press) and full-auto (more than one round fired per trigger press). It IS abused by the media, either through ignorance or to grind a political axe, as a term to describe any long arm used in a crime that does not look like Elmer Fudd's shotgun.

"Assault Weapon" is the made up term by the Brady campaign to sound scary, as part of the campaign described by Eric Holder to brainwash people to their way of thinking. The truly extremist "journalists" tend to use this term.

It's like the tree falling in the woods: Can someone be an asshole, when there is noone in their parent's basement to hear them?

What about this other thing? Is that ham a "condition", not a disease?

I was probably about 4km east of you then. Cloud passed the sun with about 4 minutes to spare before totality.

Didn't get as many pics as I'd like as I was standing there in amazement trying to see if I could get my brain to believe what it was seeing.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danack/8184416042/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danack/8184416212/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danack/8184416534/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danack/8184417362/in/photostream

If that IS his real name.....

Maybe they can get Mel Brooks under contract and we can FINALLY get to see "Jews In Space" in its entirety.

And it seems like a better idea than the one Joshua Flaherty had.

Although there is an unjustifiable disparity for the common items they examined, it's even worse for specialist equipment.

E.g. I would like to purchase a large format printer to be able to print and sell my photographs. The price difference between the US and Australia is over 100% !

B and H - $1,575.00

computeronline.com.au - $3645.00 inc GST

camerapro.net.au - $3,156.00 [Includes GST]

Although Australia is a smaller market than the US, and so there are higher stock costs and lower turnover, having something cost more than twice as much here as it does in the US is just ridiculous.