I got in the November wave of beta invites and so far I l like what I've seen. The only reason I've stuck with Windows at home is for gaming and if Valve can get enough traction behind Linux gaming I can finally cut out Microsoft. It will take years for that to potentially happen but Steam on Linux it can only serve to help Linux in general. Valve has already worked directly with AMD, Intel, Nvidia and Canonical to name a few companies and if consumers and game companies see some success more will (hopefully) follow.

Just dump the data into the tubes, add a few valves, screens and pumps and boom, problem solved.

No, the US isn't corrupt, its the person who can afford the most lawyers who wins, silly.

When they ran the pilot last year (or was it two years ago) I found it useful and actually was fairly accurate. Deerfoot bottlenecks and congests at certain points every day and once you are past those it moves along OK if there aren't any accidents, blizzards, etc. If I see an estimated time that is way larger than the usual time including bottleneck congestion I'll probably try a different route. I was surprised and happy to see it up and running yesterday.

Compared to Gnome 3... Metro isn't all that bad. I can still put things on the Desktop with Metro, what a concept!

Now isn't that nice!

I don't remember them removing features though

The PS3 is the console they did that with. Backwards compat with PS2, ability to install Linux, fewer USB ports I think, etc.

Right now when I build a PC I can pick motherboard X and processor Y, getting the price/features/performance combination I want. If this does go through the choices we have a consumers will be greatly reduced I would guess.

which should release in about 3... 2... 1...

"You've been Broginated!"

So your parents know of everything you did when you were young? Methinks not, guv.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Canada

The openings were nice, but the Avengers is sitting at $1.5 billion worldwide and Iron Man 2 about $620 million.. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avengers11.htm

Steam works the same in Windows 8 as in Windows 7 from what I've seen thus far. There is no way most gamers would buy a game in the Microsoft app store if the same game was available on Steam. Seems like Valve is more concerned about the competition from the Microsoft App Store than about how open Windows 8 as an O/S is.

Perhaps that happens when you use the Ballmer app?

http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-US/app/steve-ballmer/e1cd420c-8d42-4cc0-aa54-3254b41b7ed5