I got first because I went back in my TARDIS... ;)

"Slashdot is becoming ever the shill site since took over"

Surely that's just the universal, elitist meme talking, like no-one who's here now is as cool as the original crowd, etc.?

Well sorry for not being cool enough. Blame the Roman Catholic Comprehensive school I went to.

Actually, I was right on every count! You even got modded up, too! One of my friends probably saw it and amused him / her self with their mod points. Either that, or I was right.

You will get Insightful mods, because it's a good point,and I'll get Flamebait mods because every subsequent mod who sees my comment will see your modded-up comment, and your UID, and mod it up without reading it.

THIS comment, however, will probably get "Informative" mods, but only from those who check the links! ;-)

It is actually SFW. I stake my UID on it.

Locomotive Software called. They want their code back...

Wow, I'm scared to fire up my console now. GUIs only from now on for me - I had no idea that I was invoking the devil with my black backround and myriad switches and parameters passed!

Having been a "builder" from a very young age, I can identify with being considered "heathen" for being able connect things that other people had no idea could work together (yet obviously could work together - for example I've used a decent amp and speakers with whatever source was playing since I left home, but using the AUX input with my NICAM video recorder was blasphemy to my parents - and connecting the computer (Amstrad CPC464) to the speakers must have been like summoning demons - because they put a stop to that quickly - and no, it wasn't loud either.)

This perception of me as "hacker" carried on through school and college. Despite me having more integrity than anyone else around me at the time, and an innate sense of "right" and "wrong" and natural justice, I found myself distrusted because people couldn't understand how I did the things I did with so little (and such a crap background. Computer books were NOT on any shopping lists. I had the CPC464 manual, and POKE.)

From your "source":-

|| "The following OEM versions of Windows software are eligible"

Hmmm. Seems like my ruined Vista machine is stuck where it is, since I went out and paid my £50 for a retail copy, like everyone else who wants to UPGRADE from Vista right now in the UK HAS TO, because buying a HDD is pointless (1TB onboard) and doing so doesn't make me a new machine (so is it even legal?)

Thanks, Targus, for helping Microsoft re-secure domination again next time round. After all, a heavy brick-like screen with portable gaming specs (Radeon 4870, 1Gb) can't cost that much to make if EVERYONE wants one.

You could have it running Windows 7-esque Aero GUI when connected the KB and monitor, (come on M$, your best GUI yet and you ditch it after one, the most successful ever, release?) and running Metro and switching to Intel low-power graphics on the road.

And a small ps, Why can't I buy Win7 Retail in the UK now? Wouldn't you (M$) rather just take my £50 that crippled my rig with Win8 "Pro" (don't make laugh) and give me a key for my 7? I don't need disks...

This is extremely informative, thank you, and sorry for not digging hard enough!

Wow, a true font warrior! Scary!! ;-)

I thought that this comment was sarcasm until I looked into the "Shareware CD-ROM archive". For the Computer Gaming World stuff, there's no way to even get an IDEA of what MIGHT be on each disc without actually downloading the 600MB+ ISO's in blind faith and hoping for the best.

All the "metadata" just points to more "metadata", which points to the previously mentioned "metadata". All in XML, just to add to the annoyance.

Credit where credit's due: that's *Microsoft* Solitaire he's referring to. ;-)

Wow, is this the new "angry" typeface, or do you always post like this?