Flywheels are very efficient and require no maintenance. They operate much as a battery does.

That means your computer is running more efficiently. Just because the drive can transfer 10x more data doesn't mean that more data will be required. You will do the same work with the SSD as the platter drive, just in 1/10th the time. The exact same CPU cycles will be required, but the CPU won't be idle as often waiting for the drive to return a request. It will still be idle. Probably the same amount with either drive. But with the SSD it will have completed it's tasks before going idle.

HAHAHA.. You think the average Slashdotter has shame? That's so cute. HAHA.. no really, what did you mean?

In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, they are not.

You are parroting the Republican idea that there is this huge population of lazy people that don't want to work and want handouts. Could you post a link to some research that supports this conclusion? I hear the claim all of the time, but I just don't believe that the hardworking Americans turned lazy in January of 2008.

Maybe you just need a more Linux friendly sound card? Lot's of noobs complain about Linux when they are actually trying to run on hardware that is not fully supported. Did you pick your hardware from the HCL? No. You probably had an old Windoze machine and decided to run Linux on it. Those types of problems were more common 7 years ago. Try a modern distro on equipment that is compatible and you won't have any of this.

'I've had more kernel panics, lock ups, *nix FAIL in the past 10 years than BSODs.' - Then you're doing it wrong.

I am with you on that. And it could be especially meaningful as we come to understand the influence of broken telomeres. I think they would be more likely to change over time.

But doing the extra work for IE is not economically viable. As a web developer, I spend at least as much time modifying my CSS to make IE happy as I do developing the site in the first place. So my labor is doubled, which means my costs are doubled. And for what? Vendor lock-in. That is not of any benefit to me.

IE is only where it is because of illegal tying of the OS to the web browser. As many people have said, most users just use the browser that comes installed on their computer.

I started learning to program computers 35 years ago and I have never been into games because I have more fun programming than playing. I would rather figure out a way to get data from a database with fewer calls than figure out how to kill the ogre with the magic sword.

If you never listened by Bone Phone, you don't know.

Yeah, I am a small Internet business owner. I can't imagine the time it would take me to manage tax rates for all 50 states and to pay 50 states at the end of the quarter. That will bite.

Citation required. Your anecdotal information is not valid here.

If nobody lived in the country, what would you eat? Good luck with raising cattle on the roof of your apartment building.

It's totally useful. I used it to check the sound level differences of noise coming off of fans and harddrives. The electro-magnetic spectrum analyzer is useful also. The tool is in the hands of the user, not the intent of the maker.