Yet another college hater. Sigh.

Exactly! Where I live, we hardly look at the temperature to see how hot it feels outside - we look at the humidity.

I actually agree with the hard-disk manufacturers. It was wrong to define kilobyte to equal 2^10 bytes, because kilo by definition of SI standards = 10^3. I like the terms Ki and Mi, because they are different and hence, have no confusion. They are not awkward at all. I think all OS to adopt the standard in their user interfaces to use K for 10^3 and Ki for 2^10. Which they use by default is up to the OS manufacturer.

You're right! But now that we know how they do it, a revolution is around the corner! :-P

I for one welcome our new cat overlords!

Or jog.

I keep reading comments that it is "a sad state of affairs" that news of a celebrity's death has garnered much more response from the world then, say, news of a recent scientific breakthrough.

The fact of the matter is, Michael Jackson is one of the most recognized persons in the world, and for quite a long time too. So what if he has contributed nothing/little to science? You think without music, art, and other culture we would be the same human beings? Art and music define us and advance us as much as science - why else would cavemen draw?

So what if so-and-so was responsible for inventing solar-power, or discovered water on mars. That isn't affecting the majority of the poor population in Bangladesh. Yet, they ALL listen to Michael Jackson.

Get over it.

Yep. I've always said that Vista was the Windows ME of XP. In other words Vista is to XP that Me was to 98: a poor stop-gap solution until the actual successor came out (XP for 98, and 7 for XP).