I can speak from experience that some of the Thinkpad software is not crap, but actually improves the operating of the computer.

Under IBM the battery and power scheme setups were a lot better at maintaining battery life. Some of these hardware manufacturers actually know what their hardware does and the best way to manage it!

Even under normal circumstances, the procedure requires more radiation than most other types of CT scans, said David Brenner, director of radiological research at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.

Anyone else read this as David Banner?

How hard would it be to build a cheaper version to teach kids programming?

Never heard of local chairmen of Atheist societies, but if it is so easy to check, why not give us one example?

It was written and submitted by AI. What do you expect? Proper editing?

Open source projects can charge reasonable fees for distribution of source code. Why are these any different?

How many people out there consider the hours of work this upgrade will take to be free as well? Everyone who purchased a computer has obviously been using it for months, and chances are the majority of them won't know how to or be too afraid to attempt the upgrade themselves. $17 really is irrelevant compared to what they will expect a lot of you on here to do for them. Would anyone here charge under $100 to babysit a stranger's PC while this was going on?

Mickey: Good dags. D'ya like dags?
Tommy: Dags?
Mickey: What?
Mrs. O'Neil: Yeah, dags.
Tommy: Oh, dogs. Sure, I like dags. I like caravans more.

Did you pick SPDIF? My Windows 7 showed analog stereo, HDMI stereo, and SPDIF and I had to select the device I wanted to use. Why on earth HDMI couldn't do full surround and only 2.0 stereo, and the HDCP crapped out every time I changed inputs on either my TV or Onkyo 607 is another story.

MOD PARENT UP!

I think you completely missed the point.
Adobe is a huge company, with tons of resources, and they are shipping TODAY an insecure version that is the cause of most zombied / spyware infested computers in the past few months.
All they have to do is put the patched version on their freaking download page!

Says who? Whose porridge is here in this bowl?

Apparently you are unaware of the writings of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson? Or his impact on the elections in the 1970s?

Is FAT used for anything other than USB drives?

Do you have a bigger source for this? I was wanting to know a good place to take a vacation this summer.