While I find the technology interesting, I've never thought of a single thing I'd want to use one to manufacture or build. I am completely bereft of ideas for things I need (other than a new computer.)

Life is ever so much less stressful when you don't have a long list of "needs". :D

Now your iPhone can scream "Ouch!" when you hit it with a hammer out of frustration. :P

"I want document management, but not a document management utility."

Don't fight it. Use the right tools for the job.

You can run a business without incorporating. As long as the registrant is a "legal entity" for operating a business, they should be able to register a commercial domain.

I've lost track of how many times I've been burned by a driver update from Microsoft that turned out to be incompatible with my hardware, likely because Windows Update misidentified my hardware as compatible with the driver. I no longer install any drivers through Windows Update, but instead go to the vendors sites and get them straight from the source.

Fortunately, the drivers are always optional updates, so you can just flag them as hidden and ignore them.

What are you running -- a 1024x768 screen?

The problem is that there are parents who believe in this crap that use it to "treat" their kids instead of providing them with proper medication and therapy. I've known some of them.

They're as bad as the religious fundamentalists who insist on "prayer healing" for their children instead of taking them to a doctor.

It's the kids who suffer, not the idiots themselves. So, yes, homeopathy can do real harm to people other than the nutbars and lunatics who believe in it.

I've never had a computer's memory go bad on me since I bought my first Amiga 1000 way back in the day, and I've *always* had anywhere from 1-5 machines running at a time since then. *shrug* Anything can happen, I guess.

P.S. Never buy Kingston memory, no matter how cheap it is.

I'd agree with that. I've been chasing random crashes on my Linux box for a few months before I got around to running MemTest86 on it, and discovered half my memory had gone flaky over the years. The new memory is in and ready to be picked up.

Since I flagged the bad memory with GRUB_BADMEM, not one crash. Yet I'd gone so far as doing a full install of a different "flavour" of Linux just because I thought the video card drivers for NVidia on Debian were borked. Total waste of time and a red herring of symptoms. The X server was crashing because of memory corruption, not bugs.

Saline clears the nasal passages, too. The fact that water will wash out mucus should be a surprise to no one.

That doesn't mean homeopathic crap is clinically effective at anything.

Who said anything about validating third party licenses? They'd be content to nail everyone who pirates Office.

You raise an interesting point about the automated "testing" data, which is also a very convenient way of monitoring the "flood of pirates" that join the program. You can bet those automated tests tell Microsoft what programs were installed, which were running, and which was active. With someone who was pirating the OS, you can bet they didn't pay for those applications, either, giving MicroSoft valuable information about which software they need to write "crack detectors" for and deploy them as "security updates" to nag the pirates or delete the illegal installs automatically.

Personally I think Krauss is just jealous that over a billion people will listen to the Pope and ignore him.

Such is always true of the famous: they hold far more sway over the small-minded masses than the educated and intelligent arguments of scientists ever have or will.

You're a particularly special kind of "stupid", aren't you?

The disk servers are mirroring to the backup disk servers, obviously. And I used the term "disk server" because there are several vendors and brands of products available that do the same job.

The courses shouldn't be designed for idealized setups like multiple monitors. Most people who are going to be taking an online course are those who can't afford to go to a college or university, so they're far from likely to be in possession of multiple-monitor or other fancy-schmancy setups.

I'd lay odds that a 1080p laptop is even pushing it; many of them probably have 720p laptops.