In many places, you are charged on your electric bill for demand. Take your peak usage across the utility's time interval, and you're charged on your bill to ensure that at any given point of time, the utility can provide you with that much electricity (even if you only hit that peak once). So, while you don't pay your electric bill by wire-gauge, you do pay by how much you may possibly use by your maximum usage.

I sort of agree with this statement. Your risk may or may not go up, because you may be used to people using their turn signals and may not be prepared for someone to inadvertently cut you off. With that, I hope that your brake foot is faster than your finger.

Buying an eBook reader always seemed impractical to me when you have so many decent smartphones and PDA devices out on the market. Granted, an eBook reader has a larger screen and may be more comfortable to hold, but for the price tag, you could just purchase a better mobile phone and have more features ready at your fingertips. Not to mention the advantage of portability.

I just love how at 3:27 in the video, they advertise "Family Safety" while displaying the family safety controls website in an IE6 BROWSER!!

Next thing you know, they'll allow advertisements as comments in code. What an annoyance!

Great! I've been waiting for the opportunity to change my status to "Deceased".

I used to get blisters and calluses from playing any Mega Man game in the franchise from 3 onward. Especially for Nintendo, the corners of the controllers would jab into the palms of my hands and the thumb soreness of having to hold down the button to charge your gun while jumping with the same finger.

IE8 has a "Compatibility View" that allows the user to view pages that are not not standards compliant in IE. All would agree that IE should have been standards compliant from the beginning, but at least IE8 won't "break the Web," so to speak.

You should teach a Mob ethics class.

I suppose it depends on how you're setting up your container. If it's file-based, you would have a 4GB size limit.

Okay, I'm going to admit my ignorance in the hopes that someone else will learn. I've been a bit removed from Linux, so my question was going to be "Does Linux support the NTFS file system?" Because VMs running on FAT-based file systems suck. The last Linux-based OS I had used was Ubuntu 6.04 (Hardy Heron), which, to my knowledge didn't support NTFS.

Then, with 30 seconds of research, I came across NTFS-3G implementation.

All of that to say, I agree with the Windows VM idea. But Dell had better set up the VM, because most business people wouldn't have a clue.

A Microsoft study has shown that gamers seldom use all keyboard keys; and thus, Microsoft will release Windows 7 Gamers Edition, which will only support the following keys:

• W,A,S,D
• C,E,F,T,Q
• F5,F6,F7,F9
• 1,2,3,4,5
• CTRL,SHIFT,ENTER

Users will still be able to spray their logo.

Too bad for you if you were a scalper planning on making some quick bucks. I bet we would've seen DTV converters selling like Wiis on eBay with 150%+ markups.

Nice to see that you heed the advice of your own signature.

Only where social components make sense. NoScript is a tool that is useful for savvy people like ourselves. Its current model of whitelisting will never become widely accepted unless it becomes easier to use; namely, through whitelist suggestions. Social whitelisting becomes the next logical step, because people would generally not want one source dictating which sites are safe and which are not.