Note that if you run as a non-administrator account in Vista and try to do something that requires privilege escalation you get a password prompt on the UAC alert (exactly like in Linux or OSX).

If you run on an administrator account UAC only requires a mouse click to escalate your privileges.

Personally I'm surprised at people who'd used Linux before complaining about UAC, you'd think working with Linux would have taught them, the benefits of escalation password prompts and being able to run with limited privileges and escalating only if necessary

On the other hand, there are many past instances where pilots have panicked when things went bad and made terrible decisions that made things worse.

So pilots aren't immune from panicking in a sticky situation.

The soviet army didn't have medals or anything else during the early stages of WWII. You can do your own research on the topic, but overall it didn't work well for them (along with a lot of other things). It turns out people like being rewarded (even if it''s just a colorful emblem) for doing their job well. At the end of the war the Soviets had a whole bunch of different medals for their soldiers and realized that sometimes it's good to not treat everyone as equals. Anyway, just because others could have done what Sully had done doesn't mean Sully isn't a hero, Sully ACTUALLY did it, he actually saved hundreds of lives doing what he did and water landings are not a common occurrence at all. And just because I have the capability of pulling a little girl away from the train tracks doesn't mean I should get the same attention as the guy who actually pulled it off or that he should get less credit for doing a good deed.

Same here, this feature is absolutely awful and it boggles my mind why this is not disabled in Vista and Windows 7

I think it may be more accurate to say that 'Kanji' is the japanese pronunciation of the chinese character which in mandarin is pronounced 'Han Zi' and in both languages mean: "Han Character". The characters are written exactly the same, it's meaning is unchanged between the two languages, but the pronunciation is different.

,P.Honestly? I agree that the Tibet - China issue is a lot more complicated than evil communist takes over peaceful buddhist community, but I think saying China was the best thing that could have happened to Tibet is going a bit far don't you think?

I have to agree, obviously the end result is pretty crappy MIDI style background music, but overall I'm pretty impressed that it's able to generate something that actually does follow the flow of the song programatically.

On the other hand, are they actually selling this thing? It might be fun to play around with, but I don't see it working as a commercial product.

How do you know that all those infected windows systems are infected due to Windows and not because of some user's fault, some app's fault... etc.?

The latter scenario should be far more likely on windows because the userbase of windows is far broader and encompasses a much larger population of clueless users than the Linux world.

Personally I have never had any luck with the desktop search feature on Vista.

I have no love for macs but all I know is that spotlight feels a LOT more accurate than Vista when it comes to real time desktop searching and I'm not sure why

Goddamn it, someone mod parent up.

One word: Drivers The biggest problem with 64 bit vista: very few hardware manufacturers have 64 bit drivers for their system. There are various ways around a lot of the driver issues but it takes significant work, not something the average person is going to be able to do.

I think he has Windows and keyboards manufactured by Microsoft (which typically comes with some massive crazy configuration program) confused.