One of my personal favourites was one that took digital pictures of four different colored lava-lamps and used that to generate the random stream.

And before Blu-ray drives got fast enough to keep up with the rest of the system.

I've seen the same. I've even had iTunes 11 with current quicktime flat-out refuse to play a video as my 'computer is too slow, but WMP, VLC, ANY other program will play it without a hitch.

For reference, Apple claims an i7-3770 quad-core 3.4 ghz machine with GTX660 SLI and 32 gigs of ram can't play a file that an iPad will play fine.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again; the metro screen is a full-screen start menu with vista/7 gadgets built in and expanded.

But this is a prime example of why Microsoft is still around after 20+ years, when so many other computing companies aren't; they're surprisingly agile for a large company. They'll try something, and if it doesn't work, they'll move on.

They demonstrated this back on the 95 era, when in the space of six months, they went from 'internet, schminternet' to 'internet! internet! internet!' and they're demonstrating it again.

Soldier: Holy shit, the enemy is infiltrating our network wirelessly and shutting down our shit!

Commander: Soldier, initiate contingency plan 'unplug the fucking AP'.

Soldier: Yes sir, unplugging the AP now.

Cylons: Well, shit. Oh well, kinetic bombardment doesn't need a willing receiver.

I think (assume? Hope?) he meant Japan and Russia. Germany, as you say, was known for encouraging and rewarding tactical initiative. In Russia, doing that would get you shot (even if it worked) and in Japan, it simply didn't occur to anybody.

Democracy is three frat boys and a sorority girl deciding how to spend their evening.

And lets face it, very few websites need to be 'dynamic.' Most of the time, it's cheaper and easier, in CPU, memory, database access, disk space, pretty much everything, to simply regenerate the static HTML every time some new content is added.

How about making sure the leaders and other political figures of the party aren't ignorant egomaniacs with an agenda and a pocket full of bribe money. That is my first request.

Who other than ignorant egomaniacs are going to run for office? It's like saying that professional sports has too many gifted athletes.

Bugger that. More Captain Power!

Which is likely an extremely edge case.

Now, I doubt very highly that the 720 will *require* Internet access. But it could very well be that Microsoft's done the market research, crunched the numbers, and decided it's a good idea.

No, I'm talking about residential broadband. Cable and DSL modems. This is in regards to the xbox 720 or whatever requiring 'always on' Internet.

I remember doing that on my palm pilot. Can't remember the name of the software, though.

That said, I've had 'always on' Internet since, like, 1998 or something. It's not *that* outlandish an idea in this day and age, though I also think the Internet has taken the vague rumour and ran like mad with it.

On the flip side, remember: Feminists making dick jokes on public twitter to a friend = perfectly fine. Feminists overhearing dick jokes between two friends = get them fired.

I think you misunderstand. I was listing the two 'differences' to point out that they're not nearly worth the complaining the online world gives them. I use windows 8, and the only time I see the Metro interface is when I unlock the screen, or hit the windows key and start typing in a program name.