That would be why I dumped AVG, actually, which is what I used before trying Avast.

Spy-bot will throw up some cookie warnings once in a blue moon too, but nowhere near as often as AVG did.

I voted for "somewhere betweeen ..." It depends on the value of N and where the building is. I worked on floor 58 (of 60) in the John Hancock building in Boston, and it was very nice: great view out over the harbor and Dorchester Bay, lots of natural light. On the other hand, working on the top floor of 25 story building in downtown Manhattan won't buy you much, unless you just can't get enough of the front of that discount drug store and the windows across the street.

If I want to run a UNIX app, I can do it on Cygwin, MSYS, or any of the UNIX or UNIX-clone operating systems you mentioned. But what do I do if I want to run a UNIX driver? The point of ReactOS is that it runs not only NT 5 apps but also NT 5 drivers.

Especially when you consider that Windows NT is based on concepts that Dave Cutler brought with him from VMS.

And when Costa Rica becomes a state, sharing in the national debt and under the IP laws of the US, then they can sell their sugar to Montana.

It's not that difficult:
It's like living in Nevada and having an 80 mph speed limit on I-80 if you're going to California and a 40 mph limit if you're headed to Utah because California payed to have the speed limits changed to benefit themselves.

The iPhone doesn't do secure email because not enough people want that feature, not because Apple can't do it, or because Apple thinks they know better than you or I (which is the expected response to this post).

no, they can't make gold, because they don't move elementary particles, they move atoms. gold is an atom, hence they'd need gold to make gold, which isn't a very impressive feat. what would be cool is if they could take simple graphite (pencil lead), and assemble it into diamonds, and make the whole process significantly cheaper than diamonds are today. it could be a real game-changer, and i'd really enjoy seeing diamonds that now cost millions of dollars lose almost all their value, thus screwing over anyone who has made large investments into diamond jewelery. something like this happened with aluminium - it used to be a very expensive metal, because it was difficult to extract it from the ore, so there was a lot of aluminium jewelery. then some guy came up with a new way to extract it, and it became the cheap-ass metal we all know and love today.

You should get modded down, for being an idiot.

Solaris and BSD have linux binary compatibility layers, they work fine. Wine is coming along nicely and the pay for version supported LFD2 the night that game shipped. Bloat can come from many things but merely implementing another API ain't gonna be it.

That wouldn't help you make gold, since gold is an atom, not a compound.

Well I use Ubnuntu 9:10
Your milage may vary on other OS's with other media players

I can perfectly see 'unobtanium' becoming the jargon term for it amongst the subset of the population that we saw on screen. Heck, the proper name for the material is probably something like hexagermanium qunitofullericarsenide... crystallosulfate. Or something equally mouth-bending.

Also - How about people just talk to each other during physical intimacy (and before!!!) and figure out what each finds pleasurable? Why is this so hard for some? Sheesh. (*weeps for humanity*)

I'm not convinced that the internet has made the signal to noise ratio worse. As Sturgeon reminded us in 1958, "Ninety percent of everything is crud." It's always been that way. Go to the library and blindly grab 10 novels in a genre you like; I'm betting about 9 are crap. Grab a random mainstream newspaper and check the quality; remember the ads are part of the newspaper! Watch ten hours completely randomly selected network television. Watch ten random mainstream movies; your choice of year.

What the internet gives us is volume. If you're considering picking a magazine to read, and there is a selection of 20, of which only maybe 2 are good, it's not that hard to check them all out, or ask friends for opinions on the 20. When you're facing millions of web pages, it's more daunting. Fortunately it turns out that Web 2.0 is a good enough filter. My problem is a surplus of good stuff!

The other danger of the internet is that it lets cranks find each other, reach critical mass, and convince each other that they aren't crazy, leading to insanity like the birthers, the 9-11 conspiracy theorists, the LHC will destroy the world nuts, that the earth is expanding, and more. I want to believe that good speech, in the form of science and reason, will keep them back, but I fear it's not enough. The knots of crazy form a protective shell to protect them from science and reason. Because understanding why the crazy is wrong can take a fair amount of time, they successfully put out "Isn't it odd that..." tendrils that spread like crazy. Fighting back with reason is hard, since "What you learned in high school is basically true" isn't as fun of a fact to share with friends as "Science is all a lie!" A random comic book artist "fighting the power" is a more compelling than a scientist repeating what everyone knows.

*sigh*

Yeah I knew the suggestion was a joke, but I was responding to the not-necessarily-joking sentiment behind it of why not have a method of cleaning the panels. And not in a particularly dark manner I thought.

It is in my back right pocket, shaped suspiciously like my wallet.