They don't need to. Office 2007 works flawlessly on Linux under Wine.

Here's a hysterical analysis. I've seen first-hand that buying a vegan woman steak or lobster does not help me reproduce.

In cases like this it's more like meth than opium!

They will have to call it the NTSC-M One, of course!

I wonder if Windows 8 will actually default to the correct time zone _after_ I've already told it what country I am in. I was amazed to find that Windows 7 still, after all these years, didn't when I was setting up my new laptop last week.

Microsoft are evil. I don't touch their OS, I don't touch their software and I am not touching their search engine. So there.

To see such significant and lasting changes to neural chemistry, just type "alcohol brain scan" without the quotes into a picture search engine.

Plus the user interface pages end in "aspx". Which is the mark of the BEAST!

...and I have to admit I've never seen him suffer from atmospheric dust damage.

The first "fluid dynamics research" project is to design its own cooling system.

Maybe the idea, then, is to hide his technology, by offuscation, from other people's patents. Personally, if I just invented some free energy source I would release all the plans for the benefit of the world and put all my resources into proving the concept for scientific verification. Maybe there's a problem with that approach that has stopped others dead in their tracks that I haven't thought of.

The way to make something sound louder than anything else is to use multi-band dynamic range compression like they do with FM radio. Normalizing doesn't fix this because the peak waveform may be the same, it's just that dynamic range compression means you get a constant instead of an occasional peak.

It is possible to measure perceived loudness and crank it down if it is above a certain unacceptable threshold. That way normal programs wouldn't be affected but only nasty adverts are culled.

A better solution would be to make excessive audio-cooking illegal. The penalty could be that the offender is strapped to an electric chair and is electrocuted by his own dynamically-compressed waveform. Then they'll be sorry. Ha!

Apart from being the inspiration for it!

I've been a Mac admin for 25 years. BSD is a Mac OSX.

CDs are silver disky type things that don't take as long to burn as DVDs do. I'm impatient when I am installing an OS!