You're saying that the love and dedication that little Jane Doe gave to her 100px by 100px animated GIF of a kitty cat produced as part of a soulless-cash-grab by a minimum wage artist working for a corporation granted it a 'soul'?

Sure why not. That sounds pretty cute, and it'll drive anybody who takes the concept of soul too seriously bonkers.

Decent restrooms. Decent kitchens. Decent windowage.

Alright then. Riddle me this:

Why isn't the new Start screen optional?

Think about the answer carefully, because it doesn't have anything to do with the design of the the-interface-formerly-known-as-Metro. Whether or not the new Start screen is usable or perhaps even better than the previous Start menu designs is irrelevant.

Why isn't it optional?

Damn video shot right through Flashblock AND YesScript.

It's a fucking menace. What are you playing at Slashdot?

I don't think anybody here needs telling that the MS Office Ribbon is fubar.

I was really suprised when I learned how blunt the security options in Android were.

I'm used to COMODO IS asking me every time an application attempts to use TCP/UDP, start another process, look at a DLL or stuff like that.

All you get on Android is 'DO YOU WANT APPLICATION TO INTERNET? Y/N' which is totally insufficient.

Forget Google Instant

Yay!

the search giant is working on ways to push relevant info to users before they have even asked for it... Foursquare-style location 'check-ins' are also apparently on the way next year

Boo!

Anything with a level editor! (Perhaps not Duke Nukem 3D's BUILD, though.)

I did not read your post because your Slashdot ID is higher than mine. This post adds nothing of use to the thread.

Who the hell is Laptop Stickers? Is he related to Bill Stickers? Why does everybody seem to hate these guys?

The moral of the story: judge everything constantly.

And one of these would be that it allowed you to have sound in web pages.

"What? You mean making videogames involves numbers? WHAT THE FUuuuuuuuuu..."

Hilarious, and it happens every time.

I feel sorry for the poor souls who'll have gone through four years of expensive 'education' to find that they really ought to have spent their time creating a decent series of demo games and applications instead. Oh well.

You didn't think that the inclusion of NG Resonance as a sinister, omnipresent construct created by the WTO for the purposes of intelligence gathering was genius?