Yes, worked perfectly on the Windows Vista and 7 machines at work. Was barely audible under linux, even at full volume.

Have you used Jockey with AMD drivers? It's fscking painful.

Agree. It took me about a month to find a pulse audio command line mixer tool to adjust the headphone gain (as opposed to overall volume) for a Plantronics USB headset, because none of the dozen or so GUI mixer tools I tried even realized it had a gain control, let alone allowed me to adjust it.

I have to use Windows at work, there's no way I'm using it at home as well. Have been running with various linuxes for the better part of a decade. Ignoring the wastage of a weekend trying to get Magicka to work under Wine, there is no game that would ever make me go back to Windows. Stupid AMD drivers!

Have you tried Mail on OSX? Or just about any Calendar/Contacts/Mail product that can talk to EWS (Exchange Web Services)?

Umm... StarCraft ][ works under Wine, even with the shitty AMD drivers. Visual Studio would be nice, though: MonoDevelop just sucks as an IDE, especially when Visual Studio + ReSharper is the competition.

Tempting.

On the other hand, my iPad had 49 Calendar items for every single Contact's birthday until I deleted every all accounts from Settings/Mail, Contacts, Calendars and started again late last week, so even the Great Apple(tm) isn't immune to issues.

Please don't confuse a bump in a major version number with a "huge rewrite". It's marketing for "we added more features," no "we've rewritten this for the seventh time."

Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 still had GDI-related vulnerabilities in WMF/EMF handling left over from the Windows 3.0 days... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms08-021

In the real world a UAV will need to deal with horizontal features like power lines, fences and fence rails - all things that trip up human aviators far too often. The first video in TFA showed it using the increasing horizontal (left-right) velocity of picture elements to correlate with something vertical like a tree approaching the monocular camera, but ended abruptly as the AR.Drone was approaching a wooden fence. I would have really liked to have seen it deal with that fence as well, say by momentarily increasing its altitude to clear it.

Everybody starts out with OCPD. Most people eventually stop giving a shit.

Most stories I see say that [insert favourite research here] will be ready for commercial production within five years. Finally, somebody's being honest and saying it won't be ready before the end of this decade.

Glad to see Linnea "The Planet Killer" is doing something more positive with her life now.

Apple used to be an open company. Apple used to publish technical manuals, schematic diagrams, and source code for the firmware of the Apple I and ][ computers and the various peripherals. That would have been called Open Source had the term been in existence.

Since the Macintosh computer was introduced they've been going down the other path, publishing less and less information about their hardware and toolkits. By the time they transitioned through the Mac 128, 512, Plus, SE, SE-30 and Mac II lines into things like the LC series, Quadra, and iMacs they had lost all sense of sharing technical details of their hardware and encouraging people to develop add-on hardware and low-level software for it. Ever since iMacs they have been at the other end of the spectrum - an unassailable, unapproachable and most definitely Closed Source company. They take 30% of all sales through iTunes so that they can pay their lawyers to sue the crap out of everybody for everything, ensuring that they can continue to take 30% of all sales through iTunes.

I for one miss the Old Apple. I'm looking forward to the day where someone hands New Apple their heads and the door hits them on the arse on the way out.