Ahhh, I see; I totally misunderstood you there. My apologies. Yes, Win 7 by all accounts was what Vista should have been in terms of reliability.

I was with you till the Windows 7 comment. Mind you, I'm no MS lover (and perhaps irrationally biased against them), but Windows 7, as far as an MS OS goes, is quite good. Maybe I had worse luck with Vista than most; maybe that was MS' plan all along, but I'm forced to live with it for my employment, and Win 7 was an absolute godsend compared to Vista.

A Ballmer-Borg? It feels wrong - not that I disagree that the Gates-Borg is a bit hackneyed now, but Ballmer just isn't... scary. And somehow "ScreamingMonkeyBorg" doesn't roll off the tongue.

> e.g., I search for intel drivers, and I get three pages worth of intelligence tests from stupid quiz sites)

I'm going to have to call shenanigans on at least one point; I just did a search for "intel drivers" (no quotes), and the entire first page was ... Intel Drivers related.

Here's a screenshot: http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/1377/20110130184253.png

If you could make fees on selling something that you could then have a guaranteed buyer to who to resell, at cost or better, and them carry 100% of any future risk... who wouldn't take that deal? I'm not sure why you're being modded Troll, since that's largely what happened.

I use a usb connected terabyte drive for media (pics, songs, etc.). I have purchased a subscription to Mozy and back it all up offsite. Every year, I purchase a new drive, copy the stuff over to the new one, wipe and sell the old one. Drives that size are cheap (and as my media collection grows, drive size has grown at least as fast for about the same cost), so I don't mind the annual cost of the backup nor the the annual cost of the new drive with zero hours on it.

> And anybody who actually wants the job is probably unfit

Amen to that. The people that want jobs in politics are the ones we least want doing those jobs. It's a pity that "serving the people" has turned into "politics" to begin with I guess, but there it is.

"Colombia", unless you meant the capital of South Carolina, in which case I'd support a war.

Of course it matters. Sometimes. Your 'rate of creation' is simply the min(rate_of_typing, rate_of_thought). If you can type faster than you are currently thinking/creating/"solutionizing" then no, it doesn't matter, and there are a lot of times during code creation where this is the case; you need time to noodle, try things out, think about a solution, need some time. But, there are times where you know EXACTLY what you want the code to do/be/look like, and those times your typing speed can be the bottleneck, and there are a lot of times during code creation where THIS is the case too.

I believe the "reduce" mantra refers to not using said item in the first place. Your "percent reduction" anecdote is well constructed, but in your 33% less scenario you've used one "bad" bag. In the similarly anecdotal "reduce" scenario, you use a paper or other biodegradable bag in its place, and you've used zero "bad" bags.

Cite?