Ballmer is going to rearrange the deck for the chairs! @*#% Microshaft!

The problem with people like Lamar Smith is that they are still putting distortion ahead of science. We've listened to 12 years of distortion and a lot of overstated facts. By now most agree that we are in a warming trend and more now believe it's man-made. What we really need is for a science team dedicated to putting all the facts up for broadcast and distribution with no spin. XL pipelines to bring in more oil no direct impact on climate science. We will burn and eat that oil regardless what it gets pipped in. Burning forests on the other hand are directly related with carbon contribution. So are the effects of hurricanes and rising property insurance. Insurance already have actuarial tables based on real science data. Building codes have been revised in almost all coastal regions and places of high risk of catastrophic damage. Now we just need to get that data honestly to people that can make a difference and not fights on capitol hill.

I've been with the beast since the mid 90s before that the Amiga was already better than eight. I've got linux not on several boxes including a MSI winpad (virtual keyboard is flakey but the tablet is faster now).
I've given up on anything past 7 maybe 9 if it cleans up. Anything with a point in it is just 5 bugs fixed and 10 added.
On the other note I know two people that have gone full desktop 8 (overclocked etc) that love it but with one caveat, they modded it with the win 7 hack. LMAO.

I saw Newman's device in person and it rated more of a fascinating light show than energy device. It was also plugged into a wall mains pulling up to 7 amps the amount needed to light a handful of fluorescent tubes. The trick was 20+ standard 40 watt tubes and a huge coil for a solenoid pump that moved about 1 liter every 3 to four second about 12 inches back into the reservoir. You can find many of these devices under overunity and other names that charge big coils of wire and dump the flux voltage back into fluorescent tubes. The tubes normally operate at 60 (US) cycles and most don't notice the flash. Newman took advantage of persistence of vision (a function of neurons). The device flashed the 20+ tubes at 1 cycle every second in unison with the pump. This trick was convincing with the bright flashes but it was on for one cycle and charging the other 59 cycles. It was producing enough voltage to arc the tubes igniting the plasma but not producing over unity. Efficiency was high but lighting was not effective.
High hopes for the E-Cat which I assumed was burning the hydrogen as the energy source but saw no real energy ration. I never saw much on the device and what I did see was very little in the way of proper testing.

Learned that 20 years ago with their dial suck service and avoided them for all but the landline I'm stuck with until better network options become available. "Dull"house Cable is not an option with it's monthly rising costs.

That is the point. 123 was just a highly functional tool that worked and well from when I remembered it. I even knew accountants that ran all the books on 123 back in the pre-windows days including income and balance statements. I'm sure it works with todays fair as the functionality ramped up. Open Office is the best bet as it was at last check still clean and uncluttered with ribbons. I may have bought the MS version in 2003 when it was close to working the way I though it should but glad I found OO instead. [insert flames about Microsoft here].
While on the subject of Office suites, using MS-word over Word Perfect I don't understand how the MS version surpassed WP. MS-word has never worked correctly and still does not have the html source viewer. I could only imagine how much junk is laying in the object file of a typical document. I use to open MS documents in WP and clean up all the hyper-text markup that was just garbage and cut the file size by 30 to 60%. Another product based on Word from what I could tell was Front Page, it just mangles web page source to no end. Even with only 3 font changes there would be no less than 40 font slash-font statements.

You don't need permission from some big corporation every time boot the raspberry.
As others have said you can load any compatible OS when and how you want to.
No Contracts.
No one is tracking what you are doing nor where you are unless you really want that.
Only you can brick a Rasberry Pi.
Who is going to hack into it, that is what you get to do.
Oh and all the sexy IO pins to play with.

So true. I see so many internet ads that are as bad as those singing commercials on TV (you know the ones that sound like kids do on a portable tape recorder in the back yard).
1) Ads should not move or play music unless you are on a video channel. I'm paying for the band width, I won't click on the annoying thing in the first place and will more than likely close the whole sire after I see it. Dancing or shaking credit cards is about as stupid as selling snowballs in Antarctica.
2) Content of the ads should remain near the content of the site if possible. XBitLabs is a good example of a site that uses quality ads that follow it's content. 90% of my time on the net is research and I rarely buy from push advertisement. Influential works for me as I may see a great computer case and note where I last saw one.
3) Slide shows including non-advertisement (this runs in java and is hard to eliminate). I block the whole site if I see this ANNOYING CRAP. Many sites must have caught on and stopped using it as I close less sites than a year ago. That motion deflects off the motor cortex response system causing adrenalin leakage.
I have started opening my ad blocker on sites like SlashDot and XBit labs and other places I spend time on. In will also visit one if it has some interest. Still purchases only happen when I type in the URL so the ad is info only to me.

No, the Vulcans put it there to teach us how to build a warp drive.

I've done it with Verizon so far but the landline and TV are monopolies. Our congress sucks on the media and corporations thus we get this kind of crap to deal with. Unfortunately no one here seems to see the corporate control as a big thing while bashing any Democratic president in office. In fact most of the people I see regularly dance and sing to the fact corporations are people in the US as if that is great. I still love my country as about 60% of it's people are still good in the soul. It's the staunch rightwingers (that still think they are conservative) that are creating the biggest division. Freedom (An American dream that is only reserved for those that rip off the other 99%). For the word, any music I hear from unpaid for sources, If I like and listen to it I buy it.

But is was too late. That tiled look would have been great in 2000 but now it looks like bringing back VGA display "toobs", Balmer is doing more the send the company backwards.

Yes, someone saw it!
Plasticity! No it's not plastic but the ability to modify. I think what the author,OP is trying to say is that the left and right hemispheres are "evolutionized" to handle certain aspects on the left (mundane) and right (creative). Does this mean that being Liberal frees up your right-hemisphere for more intelligence and creativity. Most of the cerebral matter controlling parts of your body are on the opposite side of the part it is controlling. Hypothetically, possible blood flow issue as when one side is strained the muscles tend to transfer part of that energy all the way up (jaw clenched attempting to pull the door free of it's hinges). Besides all the flamebait I read on this article, it does make some sense. Now you can't say conservatives as pussies or cats as cats are independent. They are more like dogs that follow a lead dog. This trait to may be rewired but it may be that it's built along the hardwired part that makes it hard to change. Many traits like religious beliefs, gang or group affiliation are hard to change. These actions all fall into the same realm of forced choice or upbringing. It can be done, but it takes stronger influence.
"We are all just a few neurons short of being crazy, one good short circuit in the purkinje clusters and you are toast"

While politics and media commentary rule the blogs and airspace, Science get shredded into worthless dribble. Climate Science needs to be taken seriously and not turned into media spectacle. The problem is, the real stuff can be quite boring and mostly looked over. Stories about carbon levels, thermal convection and greenhouse gasses are not read by the majority of readers. Most of the media today is sensationalized and pumped with soundbites to increase readership. Just about every attempt by Al Gore to pass along data his group has collected is countered with disinformation. You never see an attempt to deflate some missed data and provide what the other group thinks is more realistic, We only see a polar opposite approach the just discredits each view and the public takes these battles to the office and public places. Even with all this funding the real Science does tend to get heard by the people that need to hear it. I've noticed over the years how changes have taken place that are more indirect approaches to reduce climate change. Many businesses are reducing consumption of power, most say it's to increase profits by reducing waste. Recycling programs have been around for at least four decades now but it's just starting to catch on due to waste elimination costs. Meanwhile these same corporations are funneling money into the disinformation channels. The real question becomes, why are we wasting money on propaganda when that money would better to be spent in fixing the problems.

Now go explain to the Lynard Skynard Bands remaining members and heritage that they have to change the song to "Sweet Home King". At least find a name with 4 syllables so that don't have to change the melody.

Another race to entropy. When we need progressive learning the most to be competitive with other parts of the world we settle back into the trough of the flowing stream. Did someone forget to tell them that stream is the river Styx! (Not the band). Here is my answer to this, if some intelligent being gave you a brain then use the damn thing and stop listening to babble.