The man was a poet. Cheers.

Most 5-year-old PCs won't run Windows 7 very well

Not true. Windows 7 will run on any computer that Vista does, and better (assuming specialized laptop drivers are available). I've seen ten year old Dell OptiPlex units run Windows 7 just fine so long as you upgrade the RAM to 2GB or more.

You don't need Windows aero to make the OS a functional experience. Which is precisely why some features of aero are only enabled depending on the graphic card's capability.

1. There are thing that are known.
2. There are things were we knew we don't know.
3. There are things that we know that we didn't knew we know.
and
4. There are things that we simply aren't aware of.

Santorum got exactly as he deserved. He attacked a group of people relentlessly and the grassroots, the real grassroots, got him back.

True.

Santorum the tool and santorum the frothy mixture of blood, semen and feces.

Now I think less of the person and people who keep perpetuating this on the internet.

I'm not taking sides. Both sides can go to hell!

I could see that going either way. Perhaps his phone was bugged. But think of this scenario. Imagine him never making a phone call mentioning anything about his hotel. Would it have been out of line for that same person to apologize about his room not being properly made? Perhaps one of the maids ratted out her fellow co-worker in order to earn brownie points (backstabbing is notorious in China I've been told). It could also have been SOP at a major star hotel too. As an American, one thing I've learned about China is that they are extremely kind and courteous to westerners. It's a cultural thing if theirs to treat their guests with the upmost respect. Right up until you violate their laws.

Word of advice for those traveling abroad. Keep your nose clean and you should be fine. Don't bitch or start a fight. You are a foreigner in a foreign land. Remember that!

Now that's a good idea. Maybe someone could retrofit two Lytro light field cameras to record stereoscopic video. Using a eye tracking system, the object in question would come into focus. Though, I'm not sure how multiple people could watch the same screen. If such a system could be devised, it may only be limited to head mounted displays. I'm thinking something along the lines of Sony's HMZ-T1.

Totally crosses the line. As a long time member of Slashdot, you have no idea much hope some of you people show for humanity. The ability to call bullshit on both those defending CP, and the politicians who hide behind the "think of the children" mantra in order to pass legislation unimpeded. Those two groups are nothing but cowards! It's about time people start calling it out like it is. By all means, keep spreading the message.

Yup. Just ask the folks living under the USSR, China, and Cuba post revolution. Sure enough, the vast majority of the rich got shellacked, but so did th average citizen too.

Well, you know what they say. Misery loves company. Sad but true.

That's what happens when hardware gets so mass produced the point of being a cheap commodity. Eventually time costs more to fix or refurbish a computer than it is to outright replace it with something newer and better. It's also one of the many reasons cloud computing based web services are so popular. It can be accessed regardless of the platform or device you're on.

The real money in IT can be found in innovation and replacement. Maintenance and support of aging technologies is for the crows. It's the one American export that's quickly losing the upper hand in competitiveness.

Live by the sword, die by the sword I always say.

Why even get involved at all? There will always be trolling on any public forum. So why not let the community deal with as we've always have in the past through moderation? Honestly, I think you are giving yourselves too much of an unneeded burden by policing slashdot.