that the Glowforge machine is a CNC laser cutter and engraver, not a 3-D Printer.

So what's it doing here, then?

bottom of the food chain

I do wish people would stop using that phrase incorrectly.

You do know that a flea is higher up it than you are, right?

IBM T40. No Sound or WiFi on Windows 7. Both work fine on Scientific & Kali.

Asus Eee. Everything works on both, but the touchpad configuration utility (which was excellent on XP) doesn't work on 7.

Clevo D900T: Had problems getting sound on both Win 7 and CentOS driver didn't install by default. Can't get WiFi to work on either. Can't find a GeForce driver that will install on Win 7, so only get full resolution on Linux.

So for me Linux wins more often than it loses in the driver game.

One one side we have all the schemes that Gates & Zuckerberg dream up to make every kid a computer genius.

On the other we have teachers who are as dumb as box of rocks.

If you layer a guitar with enough delay, chorus, compression, tube distortion, tape saturation, EQ, and maybe some octave effects, even a rudimentary player is going to sound pretty killer.

Rubbish. I can strum about three chords from memory and six if I study them before playing.

The only way you could make me sound like Clapton, Page or Blackmore would be to erase all my shit and record them over the top.

Like the new name - "Moregayer" - is any better in that respect.

This. If the sequence is ABCD then with the adverts it goes ABC[adverts]BCD.

There was one on youtube about WW2 where I lost count of how many times HMS Hood was sunk.

With the attention spans the current litter of hiptarded fucksters have, a typical pop ditty seems to them like 2112 or Shine On You Crazy Diamond to a normal person.

Autotune can only do so much.

UK readers may have seen an episode of The One Show about it, they just couldn't get Adrian Chiles to sound right.

It was submitted by schwit1.

If it said the sky was blue I'd look outside to check.

It drives itself a bit - enough to make an idiot think it drives itself totally.

It's like the automation equivalent of uncanny valley.

Why don't you remake it?

In PowerPoint, of course.

The Beetles

Did you mean The Roches?

Needs a bit more Cowell!

Hang on...

Do we know that with 100% certainty? If not it makes sense to hedge the bet a little.