I can answer that. I used Firefox for years, but the memory leaks got worse and worse and the browser got slower and slower. Chrome was at least 500% faster right from the start, and as soon as extensions became available most of my Firefox extensions were ported. There's even a decent port of AdBlock-- the only major extension I miss is NoScript. I still have Firefox on here for the occasional site where I'd prefer to use NoScript, but I can certainly say there's still a major speed and RAM consumption difference.

Oh, and I'm 34, in case you were wondering.

Shit, I wouldn't even call a Cryix a 486. Like you said, higher end 386s tore those things to shreds. A guy I knew back in highschool had one, and it had a notorious chipset defect that caused it to semi-randomly scramble floppy writes under certain conditions.

Already exists. iPhone Justin.TV client can broadcast over 3G or wifi straight to the net.

Simply isn't going to happen until someone writes a development environment on par with Flash's, which doesn't seem to be happening any time soon. Chicken and egg problem. There's no interest in moving off Flash until the tools are there and nobody wants to write tools until there's interest in them.

You can set up mailing list addresses that you can assign to one or more people.

Nine fives? I think they just work nine TO five!

Had some early chipset driver issues in XP way back in the day (a six month period of major problems between Detonator drivers and Via's 4-in-1 chipset drivers) but in recent years (XP, Vista, and Win7) I've only had problems from the rare occasional "driver went very very wrong" crash or dying hardware crash.

BSODs don't show up nearly as much as they did back in the 9X days, that's for sure.

Did you put in a bug report on this, or at least check to see if one existed? If it's really a problem (and it sure looks like one) then there are mechanisms in place to tell the devs "Hey! I need this fixed!"

Note I never assured you that they'll LISTEN. That's a completely different angle, but you really can't complain unless there's at least a bug report on file.

I'll agree with you there. I was a CoCo user for most of my formative childhood, and I was sad to see the line die off. Great keyboard. I still have some mental adjustments when I switch between it and a PC, though. Shift-2 being " and the oddball shift-@ pause function.

I don't necessarily agree here. It's not the verification, it's the "Okay, what facts do we have?" question.

At least in my case, someone told me the guy had died and my first reaction was to google it and see HOW he had died. I'd think that's more likely than the suspicion of a hoax.

At least for USB drives, it looks like the successor will be exFAT (or call it FAT64 since that essentially IS what it is.)

Myst? Certainly one of the defining moments of its' short-lived genre, but I think I would have picked The Seventh Guest instead for that slot.

Well, I know that if you build one of several PE configs using WinBuilder, it'll give you the option of installing ClamAV on there. I have a bootable USB stick running PE 2.0 with a full explorer interface and a whole set of tools for rebuilding, repairing, and cleaning Windows installs.

SS2 is a Windows game, so obviously no. Eleventh Hour? Well, not entirely sure about that one, but I know that The Seventh Guest was added to SCUMMVM recently. I wouldn't be surprised to see the sequel on the list in a year or two.

Check my past history if you like; I'm no astroturfer. Still, I'm not going to try to convince you otherwise on this particular topic -- really, it's better you judge for yourself in the first place. That's why RC1 is downloadable.

I am, however, going to say that my experiences so far have been pretty smooth and stable. I've only got an Athlon X2 5000 and 2GB of RAM, but it runs a whole lot better than Vista did on this hardware and actually seems to approach XP speeds in terms of feel.

I HAVE had some problems, though. It doesn't seem to like my bluetooth USB device for some reason. I imagine putting BlueSoleil back on would make a difference but I was kinda hoping the built-in drivers would suffice.

I really need more time to be 100% certain, but things are definitely looking up compared to the clusterfuck Vista ended-up being compatibility-wise for me.