You forgot the third: Google+

I suspect at least some of the dying services will somehow resurface as a new G+ feature.

Have to give props to AMEX here. While traveling for a living I apparently got my card skimmed shortly before a flight home Friday. They called me at my connecting airport, we discussed which charges were mine and which weren't. They canceled my card and had a replacement card ready to pick up within a few miles of my house on Saturday so when I flew out Sunday night I had my new card for the rent car and hotel. (It was a corporate card; I don't know if that makes a difference.) I was briefly concerned when the fraudulent charges showed up on my balance on the website, but they took them off again before I started getting antsy about the fraudulent-claim window.

I suppose it might have helped my case that my travel was on the East coast, I live in TX and the fraudulent charges were in CA.

(And btw...traveling for a living sucks!)

Things may have changed in the past couple of years, but I distro-upgraded-before-I-looked from Ubuntu Hardy LTS to Lucid LTS and found that the OpenVZ components were removed and LXC components added which threw me for a few loops on my home containers. At the time I found LXC to be lacking in tools and documentation, and OpenVZ wasn't being supported in a sane way. I had enough troubles with Lucid in containers that I put everything on a hard box and later moved all of it to Windows and Ubuntu-in-Hyper-V. But once LXC has decent tools and documentation I might look into it again. Sharing a kernel was very handy for my home sites.

Weren't you surprised nothing was pixelated?

Not.

XXXX XXXX xxxx xxx XXXX xxxxx XXXX (stupid word count filter for posts) xxx XXXX

(^^ example of a post on your twitter for intellects site :-) )

In 140 characters you can learn whether or not you want to follow the link. (Or the tweeter.) It's brilliant.

Not sure what 6 seconds of video can do, but I'm interested in finding out.

NT

Every person I've ever met would say something like this:

"All the other drivers should get a car like this. I don't need one because I'm a really good driver!"

Then why do I have to install two or three versions of Java on each desktop to support my enterprise apps?

Oh, nevermind.

Isn't Pussy Riot close enough? But they got thrown in jail for saying words.

Really? It's been a while since my history classes, but I thought it was the U.S. ability to manufacture more tanks and ships and trucks and things. The Sherman was outclassed but was sent in much larger numbers. And their bomber's couldn't reach the U.S. factories whereas the German factories were having to move into hollowed-out mountains and such. The Germans had ballistic missles, cruise missles, superior tanks and were on the verge of intercontinental flying-wing bombers.

They also were fighting a two-front war.

Japan put a prototype jet fighter in the air during WWII.

I don't think the Allied Forces had superior tech in WWII.

I had a guy a couple of gigs ago that would call me when one of his desktop icons moved a bit. I'm not sure you're exaggerating with the phrasing "would poop themselves".

Also, if you have multiple monitors it's harder to hit the hot spots when you want them and easier to stray onto them when I'm scrolling on my second monitor on the left of my main monitor.

Some questions to you:

Do you use Metro IE?

Do you use the built-in PDF viewer app? Image app? Media app?

I find myself avoiding the Metro apps and instead living on the desktop.

Simple question: Do you use Metro IE or desktop IE?

I'm trying to run Win8, and when I'm living on the desktop I'm okay. But then I try to open up a PDF, media file or image and suddenly the default Metro-based app launches and my desktop and task bar are gone. I haven't yet figured out how to close the Metro app to return to the desktop. I have to alt-tab back to the desktop and then right click in the top-left hotspot to close the Metro app. Instead I am now manually dragging PDFs into Chrome (the desktop version) and right-clicking media files to launch in desktop WMP. (Adobe's PDF reader annoys me, too, so far I am avoiding installing it.)

I've installed Win8 on my main home machine to force myself to get used to it, but I have yet to like anything about Metro. Shutting down or sleeping the computer takes several gestures and clicks.

When I look at the Metro screen my brain wants to explode. The Win7 start menu does a decent job of promoting my commonly used links while allowing me to pin items if I want, but I can also search the start menu, and unlike Metro it will show me apps, files and control panel items in the search results. In Metro I have to move the mouse a lot and click to search files, apps or control panel items. In the Win7 menu I have the option of browsing the hierarchical folder structure, too. In Metro I get the mass of gaudy tiles that make no immediate sense to me and then a bunch of ugly tiles for installed programs and all the items that might have appeared buried in the hierarchy in Win7. I am not liking it yet and haven't yet figured out an advantage for me with Metro.