Yes, it runs in the family.

That's nice to hear, about Win8

Smarter? Probably, but this is a matter of being observant. Pick someone bored looking, towards the end of their shift, or go when lines are long. They won't care due to either boredom or stress. The smarter ones will be more vulnerable during the boredom times, the less smart will be more vulnerable during the packed times.

Not really high risk as you might thing, a lot of places like that pay rather low salary, and so their employees, and it's a rather boring job - those employees aren't going to have that much concern.

People autopilot a lot, especially when bored. And if you are *really* smart, you put the stickers on a few extras (make sure they don't have your prints), and then you can say you didn't do anything, or say 'all of them had stickers like this, I thought it was some new way of doing things'.

-26 here.

I use the magnifier (in certain situations), and then the standard font/color change tool. I prefer Windows XP over Vista/7 because you can make input elements separate from other things, whereas in Vista/7 many non-input-elements have the same color as input elements :-(

I doubt it.

It didn't arise last time. What arose last time was companies offering unlimited internet, because it was one of the rare cases where there was a large block of consumers with a similar/unified desire, and it actually had a successful push.

If they try this route again, then some companies will find that they can get more customers and generally increase their profit, by getting rid of the competition, and offering unlimited plans. The companies with pay-by use will again migrate back to offering these plans as well. The prices will again drop through competition, and we'll be back to the mediocre state we are in now. Unfortunately, between now and then, it will probably suck a bit.

Normally, when it is a company vs. a group of individuals (consumers) the company wins because the variety in the individuals, and their inability to have a cohesive opinion and exert a reasonable market force to change, except in the most extreme cases. This situation has been shown in the past to be an exception to this pattern/trend.

I think the "problem" is for the investors, not the people who sold the stock, the original shareholders or the company itself.

Part of me sees this as the main facebook shareholders deciding it has plateaued, and trying make their profit and get out what they can, with an initial hyped-up IPO.

Odd, being highly visually impared, I've found Windows to be much easier to work with than a Mac. Mind you, I'm not completely blind, so I don't know about how well the screen reader software is (though, in my experience, it isn't so bad). Also, without doing anything special, I can use the keyboard for almost everything in Windows. The only Mac user I know, who uses the keyboard for everything, had to do quite a lot of tweaking to set it up.

I'm curious to hear why. I have a 17" and it doesn't seem bad. My previous notebook was a 18" Satellite, also not a bad computer.

number pads have been common on laptops as well. My last two Toshibas have had them, but you do need to have at least a 15" machine.

Which, I guess would be my answer to the question in TFS - Toshiba. Yes, it's plastic, but it seems to be rather sturdy plastic. Unless metal is an absolute must-have, I'd go with Toshiba.

Pointy Hats Ascendant.

Basically, the Unseen University has moved into space.

(note, the ENTIRE university, not just one member, so no saying "it's already been done", and citing "The Last Hero")