Someday I'm confident we'll have nanite roads. Maybe we could have the roadway act as a solar collector - if all the roads on the planet were solar roads, we would generate 100x our current power demands (which includes oil/gas). Plus, the nanites could form power conduits, creating a large, redundant power generation and distribution network. Maybe we could use them for data too - gigabit to every home. Nanites could clear debris, break up ice, melt ice and snow, and could directly generate the lines on the road - allowing for glowing lines (which would greatly increase safety). Light poles would be more feasible since it's a few feet to connect them, instead of having to run power lines. The nanites could automatically repair themselves. Heck, maybe we could get them to self replicate within the confines of the road, so we just have to spray an initial thin layer on and let them do the rest of the work.

People who claim that the desktop/laptop is dying and everything is going to tables and phones are full of two things. One is wishful thinking. Can you guess the other one?

Seen a lot of customers get the Windows 8 upgrade, then ask us to downgrade them. Too bad microsoft made it almost impossible to revert the Windows 8 upgrade.

Sorry, stupid Slashdot comments deleted the line breaks and I clicked to Confirm too fast. And now it doesn't seem to want to save any line breaks, may be from Opera. Too much effort to figure it out.

>suspecting it is just a game of no real value A game in the way that pyramid schemes are games. The root purpose for stocks is to be paid dividends. You pay the company some money for a portion of ownership, and when they pay out to the owners, you get your cut. However, it seems that many companies don't do dividends, and that people buy stocks in the hope that they can sell them to someone else at a better price - eventually, that price drops, and someone loses money. Just like a pyramid scheme, someone is left eventually holding the bag. The article summary says "the tweet briefly wiped out $136.5 billion of the S&P 500 index's value", except that stocks have no inherent dollar value. When I buy $10 worth of stock from Google, Google has $10 and I have an IOU which may or may not be redeemable at face value. When I sell it to someone else, now I have money and they have an IOU. You can't buy anything with stocks, you can only trade them, and no one is required to buy them. So yes, the Stock Market is a game with no real value, only perceived value. You alter people's perceptions, those stocks are worthless. If you have $10 million in the bank and $1 billion in stocks, you are worth $10 million, not $1.01 billion, because other people have the $1 billion you spent on those stocks. Eventually, the market will completely collapse, as it needs constant care and attention to stay afloat. Also, just came up with a great analogy: A share of stock is like a raffle ticket. You might get a prize for it (the "dividend"), you might be able to sell it to someone else, or it may just become completely worthless.

I could easily write down what you're saying while you're talking to someone.

YOUR current computer is enough.But it was probably quite a bit more powerful than the average when you bought/built it. Most people buy PC's in the low $$$ range, which means they fall behind after 3-5 years. TONS of people still on ~3GHz P4's with 512MB of RAM.

I don't know, Reddit is a pretty amazing news platform based out of the US. Yes, you might get some low quality articles and some bad comments, but you also get tons of great content.

Didn't he throw a bunch of Generals and other officials in prison?

That way they're available for the common defense of Mankind, in the event of alien attack or some other event that threatens all of humanity equally.

This is when the workers should band together and try to find positions at other companies. Losing a whole bunch of critical people at once will cripple their business, and the sub-par talent they hire to replace them will tank the company.

Then we just need two reviews, one biased in Microsoft's favor, and one biased against Microsoft.

Common sense does not require a citation. However, that post was not common sense. It was a made up "fact" based on what someone "felt" was right. In other words, that post was equivalent to religious doctrine.

I actually looked into the possibility of running Windows programs for x86 on other processors. Read posts with my name "BrentNewland" http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11078&sid=9213440b9627ba56a8beb204022e2bae#p91132 Same method applies to both WINE and ReactOS. In essence, you run the program on an x86 emulator (like QEMU). Supposedly little of the actual program is x86-specific, the majority is resources and Windows API calls. QEMU takes care of the platform-specific code, and any API requests are sent to Wine, which is compiled for the processor. That way it's not emulating the entire OS or the entire Win32API, which is supposed to allow performance up to 50% of native.