The first Lego tower was built in London in 1988, since then Toronto, Moscow, Sydney, Tokyo and Munich have been among the cities which have held the title.

That's a pretty fucking ingenious scam Lego's got going there. Each year, go to a new city and ask "wouldn't you like to have the world record for the world's largest lego tower?". And sales go through the roof in the host country until it's time to move the record onto the next country...

I don't have an actual windows machine, just a virtual machine that I'm connecting to via remote desktop, so I'm not entirely sure it's DirectWrite. Toggling compatibility mode doesn't seem to change anything for me at least.

Anyone know how to turn off cleartype? There doesn't seem to be an option for it in options, so, registry change?

Let's hear it for redundancy and good planning.

Let's hear it for redundancy and good planning.

Let's hear it for redundancy and good planning.

Displayport is multilane (and Displayport 1.2 has twice the number of lanes as Displayport 1.0), and per spec has enough aggregate bandwidth (with 1.2) to drive a single display at 3840x2160 x 30bpp x 60hz. But, I'm not aware of any devices that actually supports that at this time.

HDMI 1.4 can do 4096x2160 at 24p, which is great for film, but not so good for computer displays, which you will probably want at 60 fps. Displayport can do 3840x2160 at 60p incidentally, and probably higher than that I would bet. I wonder what the next revision of the HDMI spec will bump HDMI up to...

A contract is voidable if the innocent party can prove that it had no other practical choice (as opposed to legal choice) but to agree to the contract.

In the above hypothetical scenario of someone who's house is burning down, there is no pratical choice but to accept whatever demands the fire department makes. Someone could always find another doctor.

IANAL, but there's no way that contract would be considered valid, if it went to court. Signed "under duress".

Free as in beer, I guess. :3
You're right though, i completely forgot about vmware server being free.

keep the existing setup and virtualize it (vmware is nice, but, xen is free)
upgrade the vm host hardware as needed or as necessary, instead of upgrading a machine that should really be left alone.

benefits:
1) minimal effort needed on your part
2) your dad doesn't need to learn new software as it is exactly the same, and all the data is retained
3) hardware upgrades are transparent to the client vm (hopefully)

(but, don't forget to routinely backup the data on the vm like any other machine though)

the first blurb was sorta believeable, then it went downhill from there..
(posting this just to get the achievement..)

Applied Cryptography