Golly, Mr Wizard. I'm gonna pitch Firefox now.

That's the same thing that I thought. The CO2 at Mammoth Mountain here in California has been so high it's killing trees. It's all volcanic too.

It really took a pile of government money to fund some geniuses at a university to figure that out, huh? And people wonder why the planet is going broke!

I lost patience with Adobe long ago. I know Gimp isn't as good as Photoshop. But it does 98% of the stuff I need to do and it's hard to argue with FREE. Inkscape is coming along very nicely now too. Getting off of their upgrade treadmill is a relief.

Steven Sinofsky was the head of the Windows division of Microsoft. He was probably fired. But he says he left for his own reasons. Yeah, sure. That should tell us that even Microsoft realizes they pooched this deal. Everybody I know that got a computer with 8 on it has begged me to put 7 on it for them. But I actually put OpenSuse 12.3 on a bunch of machines lately. UEFI is a pain in the a$$ too.

I was making a joke. But I actually have an HP XW8600 as my desktop machine. It has 2 quad core Xeons with 12M cache running at 3Ghz. I also have 32G of ram and an Nvidia GT520 graphics card with 2G ram. It runs games pretty nice. I have a dual boot with Win7 Ult 64-bit and OpenSuse 12.3 64-bit. Most of my games are now on Steam for Linux. Actually works quite well. But those big burly Xeons arouse my techno lust. ;-) Oh, and Windows 8 is just stupid.

Hey, I want a pair of these new CPU chips from Intel with 10 cores each and 30M of cache in my next PC. These CPU's will now directly access a measly 12TB of ram. Heck, they're only $4616 each. Why not use them to run Far Cry 3 real fast? ;-)

http://ark.intel.com/products/53580/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-8870-30M-Cache-2_40-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI

Windows 8 takes a decent interface and hoses it up. But Microsoft had to change something to keep you on the upgrade treadmill. It's not about better, its about money. Told ya so.

These people spend all their time trying to deny other people of freedom. If we need any kind of control, it's Senator control.

Geez.

If it was gaining in Botswana, Outer Mongolia or Paraguay it might have been believable. Nah.

Since Microsoft is so good at ripping off other ideas, they might as well be consistent. Why not steal KDE for their next brilliant idea.

The latest Mint is a Debian based distro too. Much better than that crazy Ubuntu distro.

OpenSuse has as the default desktop KDE 4.10.1. It's a stable UI and very customizable too. I love it. I just installed it on a bunch of computers.

Shakespeare, in Henry IV, Part One, 1596:
Falstaff: 'The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.'

I'm with Billy Boy on this one. If there was one inkling of a national security issue, I would opt for a different choice than these Chinese companies.