Sheez, driver over to Bielefeld once in a while. I live there, and sometimes work in Gütersloh (for Miele as a consultant). Yeah, Gütersloh itself is pretty bad, none of the people who works there wants to live in the town, but well, it is half an hour drive to Bielefeld, and there is at least a little night life ;) And gorram Slashdot, grow some Unicode support...

Yeah, especially now that even the original story does not show the OMG PONIES style anymore. Someone at Slashdot should rebuild that one just for giggles and link it to the original post. As in, I wanted to see it again just now to remind me how awesum etc it was, and found the story, but well, it didn't make sense. "We changed our layout to attract more females", and it just looks like always... meh.

Yep, really just lolcats, just checked, not blocked here at work. Of course, there are pictures like "Oh mai god, ceiling cat is watching me masturbate" (a cat with a surprised face), so there is your sex. And oh, a wet cat that looks like it really enjoyed their owner bathing them, so there is your animal cruelty...

I actually solved that problem by going from 2 to 4 gb ram on my Vista64 machine. Before that e.g. landing in Dalaran made the game basically unplayable for a minute or so, and alttabbing to a Firefox window that was open in the background with 20 Wowhead tabs opened was taking somewhere in the 2 to 5 minutes range - seriously. By adding the additional 2 gb of ram (actually I swapped the ram, to a faster CL setting as well, but that's a minor detail, I guess) I was able to boost my framerate from typically 1-15 fps in Northrend to 10-40 fps, and be able to alttab to Firefox in 1 to 2 seconds, and landing in Dalaran now doesn't cause hiccups at all.

So you might actually just be at the limit of your hardware as well?

To get back to the original topic, though: I felt a much bigger performance hit when going from TBC to WotLK then when going from XP32 to Vista64, all on the same hardware.

The difference here is that astronomers call a lot more elements "metals" than chemists do, it seems to be a convention for this specific field of work. So in that context that quote is not really wrong. At least that is what I have heard, I am neither ;)