It's obviously designed to be a touch interface and using it with mouse input can be very frustrating. I have been shopping for a basic laptop and I see this over and over on customer reviews when I look at models that ship with Win8 now. They usually go something like "Great laptop. But Windows 8 is difficult/horrible/doesn't belong and you can't downgrade this version. I wish I had gotten one with Windows 7". I totally understand that feeling as I felt the same when I tried Windows 8 on my existing laptop. It seemed like it would be a nice touch interface, but that became extremely annoying since I didn't have a touch screen and using the mouse to do the "touch screen stuff" can be cumbersome and is not intuitive at all. You get used to it after a while, but I think it would remain annoying to most people and seems to reduce productivity.

Only if you have Windows 8 Professional. Most new PCs sold come with Windows 8 Home, which does not provide downgrade rights.

I tried metric time one time and my head nearly exploded. Must be an ancient Egyption curse keeping us on base 60...

Yes, but that happened on foreign soil. People feel disconnected from it when it's happening on the other side of an ocean. When the house next door blows up, its going to start getting more real to people.

The tanks are required to be below ground by the fire code. I think the better question is why put big data centers on a low lying coastline/island and/or a city with a giant target painted on it by every anti-american, anti-establishment, anti-whatever whacko the world over. Data centers belong in places with low risk of natural disaster, war, terrorist attack, riot or really anything that brings the police out.

They don't have a choice. Fire codes require the fuel tanks to be underground. It doesn't have to make sense, it's the law.

They will find a target. It's only a matter of time before a hellfire missile is used on a domestic target. And as others have said, it won't matter who you vote for next week.

So what happens if this little adventure is actually successful. Obviously there will be some side effects, but what if none of them are negative and the fish flourish and the evil carbon is inprisioned? Will they still seek to crucify this guy? Further, what "teeth" does an international "resolution" have to take legal action against him? he didn't break any actual laws.

It seems like he is swimming in a big grey sea and knows it. And is willing as an entrepreneur to take the risks associated with that swim. Makes sense to me.

I am running (6) OCZ Vertex2 256GB drives under heavy use 24/7. Almost 2 years on have only had one fail and it still works, just started kicking random errors.

Can't be any worse then those hideous looking Google goggles...