Windmills are typically used to mill grain, such as turning wheat into flour. Last I checked, windmills aren't usually made in China or Germany.

"Wind Turbines" is the accepted term for the units that convert Wind into electricity, and they're not "made in China and Germany mostly":
- Vestas is the presently the world's largest turbine manufacturer and is based in Denmark. It has manufacturing operations the same country.
- Siemens Gamesa (SGRE) is based in Spain and has most of its manufacturing operations there.
- GE Renewable Energy is based in the US, and they have manufacturing operations in Brazil, Mexico and the US.

Other players are smaller outfits and hail from a variety of countries including South Korea, India, Brazil, Japan and as you stated, China and Germany.

So long my friend, thanks for all the fish. May you rest in peace...

So true! I wish I had mod points!

Golf! What a great idea!

Hah! I see what you did there!

Uh, no. GP wasn't talking about BPL (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_over_power_lines ), but stringing fiber along the same poles when reconducturing is performed.

Windows 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.11, 9x & ME were indeed built on top of DOS, but NT certainly wasn't! DOS on NT actually runs in NTVDM. DPMI (32-bit DOS) is also emulated through thunking to NT APIs.

For the uninitiated, Dave Cutler joined Microsoft in 1988 as a design lead for NT, long after Windows 1.0 was out. This chap also happens to have been instrumental in the design of VMS at DEC from 1975 to 1988. His Wikipedia bio is quite interesting.

The word "its" is possessive, as in:
The chimpanzee scratched its head.

"it's" is a contraction of "it is".

It appears as if your sentence should have read:
Sadly as slashdot has no edit function available in its interface, it's a pointless exercise.

FTFY, and as AC said, please try and make an effort. Thank you! ;-)

I'm in the same boat in terms of diagnosis tools. You may already know this: PuTTY supports opening both telnet and raw TCP sessions.

The awesome thing about HTTP is its extensibility but changing to a binary protocol may make compat an interesting thing. I am interested in knowing how clients in particular are expected to operate when talking to 1.1 only servers.

Should we cue in the "Facebook is dying" jokes?

I almost choked on my M&M's! Sir, I salute you for making my day!

AC, you owe me a new keyboard!

Where are my mod points, when I need them?

You omitted the most epic part of the Windows family: Windows ME!

... and hide your husbands!