Does that make it right then? Is the moral standard for what's right now "whatever the public lets us get away with"?

If so, I understand your desire to minimize exposure of public information....

Why "ride the coattails" rather than "stand on the shoulders of giants"?

Is it so terrible that someone might benefit from someone else's work? That multiple eyeballs see the same info, multiple brains ponder meaning, multiple voices tell its story?

Attempting to protect exclusivity with public information is not the right answer.

Good idea in theory, non sustainable in practice. There's just too much information generated daily; the cost of hosting would be overly high and I bet the UI for navigating it would be horrid.

The current process is nominally OK, less the fact that only one person benefits from the work of retrieving it. Once found, it should be free for all.

And waste more taxpayer money forcing a public employee to go through all the work again?

Free for one, free for all. Putting in the initial request is performing a public service, not something proprietary.

If the process is a "maze", that suggests a process improvement to be made, not an excuse to privatize public information.

FOIA is about releasing information held by public agencies to the public. We all "own" it, we have a right to see it, and if we ask, we can.

That's the public "we". Putting in a FOIA request doesn't make that information "yours" and a business model that depends on you adding an additional layer of secrecy is fundamentally flawed. The public has no interest in helping to maintain your flawed business model.

Well I for one am coming back here...

Is there any place where the supposed speedups and other improvements are demonstrated?

Win7 is a pretty good OS. 8/8.1 are horrid. I'd like to see the benefits clearly shown somewhere before upgrading.

No, it was fully preemptive right from the start. It was a major selling point.

It was the Mac that did cooperative.

Mind you, preemptive on a 68000 wasn't flawless. Saw a lot of GURU in the day.

-MB- is that you?

The 1541, on the other hand, would misalign if you looked at it funny.

Amen brother.

My 3 Amigas were NOT "PC"s. 2 of them were "PC compatible", thanks to Bridgeboards.

Son, I was there. Owned 3 Amigas.

Amigas were NOT PCs - and saying so in the wrong circles would get you shot.

"PC" meant it ran MS-DOS.

That's no longer true.

The Catalyst drivers have made *huge* gains over the past year to year and a half, both in terms of performance and stability.

Civ V and the recent Civ-BE preview run just fine on my HD 7870.