Yes. It's "Format C:" followed by installing some flavor of Linux and Open Office.

What does "DLL Hell" or side by side assemblies even have to do with it?

Indeed. A stanard Windows DLL is not quite the same thing as an assembly, and as far as i know only assemblies have ever been "side by side." If you're doing plain old C++ on Windows, sxs doesn't enter into it, because side by side is a feature of the .net runtime.

Yes. I copy it with my regular, non privileged account and then change ownership and permission in the target machine as root.

You don't need root for one of transfer of files.

Nobel prizes are never awarded for new work, they are awarded for work you did sufficiently far in the past that it has been extensively peer reviewed and tested and is now accepted as being one of the bits of scientific knowledge that everyone in the field knows. This one is being awarded for work originally published around 1980 (as it says in TFA). Others have now tested this the published results in sufficient detail that it is now something that almost everyone with any awareness of biology knows.

A Nobel Prize is not like a 'best paper in conference' award. You don't get it for new and exciting theories, you get it for theories that have withstood careful examination and testing. If the LHC finds a Higgs Boson then Peter Higgs will almost certainly get a Nobel, for the work that he did predicting it back in 1964.

You don't need a brand to run a business model, in certain segments. Lonely, desperate men with no self esteem are sitting ducks for an anonymous promise of cheap, easy, self-medicated improvement.

Your other point is well made - at the moment, law enforcement can't legally respond to a spam email, pay for the product, and then follow the money trail. There are sound legal reasons for this but I reckon there is a good case for narrow legislation to deal with this specific problem. The answer isn't educating users: at the end of the day, you need a certain IQ level to recognise a given example of spam, and for any given IQ level, there will be a certain percentage of the population below that, no matter what you do to try and raise their awareness.

The complexities take power away from judges, I suppose, but then they put the power in the hands of the lawyers, who have to interpret the laws for the judges.

I prefer keeping the law simple and being able to recall judges who get out of control.

Injustices are going to happen anyway, the only way to deal with that is to learn rudimentary social skills, so you can get others to help you correct them. (Or am I being unreasonably idealistic in asking that?)

I've had no problem with IG chips, they run all my software just fine and can even play Oblivion. Unless you're gaming or running some eye candy OS, I don't see why you'd need more.

Then again, I suppose I'm judging a discrete graphics card vs integrated as two very different things. If I have a discrete graphics card I expect it to do more than "even play Oblivion".

You're right, I did miss the point.

About 6 months ago I bought a 17" dell studio laptop with Vista Home Premium. When W7 RC came out I installed it and have been running it ever since. After reading your post today I became curious and tested the media buttons with WMP minimized, while browsing the interwebs (IE8). They all worked, which REALLY surprised me. When was the last time you tried this and with which OS and hardware?

Absolutely insightful. Too bad that most people don't understand probability and expectation very well. In fact, unlikely events occur every day -- for example, lottery winners are announced every day. The fact that somebody will win is certain; however, that any specific pre-designated person (including me, sadly) will win is highly unlikely.

More correct analogy would be "but I did not stab anyone, I just gave the movement to the knife. It wasn't me who stabbed him, it was the knife!"

The reason the movie sucked was that it was a shitty love story, not because the story of the Titanic wasn't told well.

I concede your point and agree that is was a crappy love story and their story was Cameron's focus, but using the backdrop of the Titanic tragedy for this trivial, and poorly executed telling, was repugnant -- and poorly done. I never considered the story of Rose and Dawson of any consequence and contend he could have picked a better plot for focus.

See, NOW I understand why you think it sucked -- and I add that to my list of objections to the film. Thanks.

Finally, ONE DAY, there will be a killer app for the general public using the power of the GPU. Then I hope everybody will understand.

a high speed, high quality dvd ripper/transcoder would do it for me, and it sounds (to my uneducated mind) like something that lends itself to GPU style parallelism.

Dave

Sarah Connor Chronicles. /shudder

Thank you! (Though I don't think he directed those.) In any case. So much potential wasted. So much whining (paraphrasing):

• Sarah: We can't kill people, even if they're bad.
• John: I just want to be a normal kid with a life.

Hello? Fate of the human race at stake. Man up pussies. Cameron (Summer Glau) was the only one who could consistently do what had to be done.

Notice that they put the qualifier "It's believed". As in, some people believe that. They don't even commit themselves to a "We believe" let alone taking the huge leap of faith of just "The new technology will cost more",

Amen to all your points. And to your sig as well!