Wow, that was pretty awesome. I almost find it hard to believe he is serious, having walked into that so obliviously.

Don't worry, your matters of record was only a link to wikipedia, which is only slightly worse than an incorrect opinion. You're still safe.

You're missing one very important point. Intel & AMD's tech allow the speed of the active cores to go ABOVE the standard processor speed. So say you have a 2.4GHz quad core CPU, yet with only 2 cores active it might run at 2.8GHz. With the older speedstep tech, you can only reduce the speed of cores, you cannot increase them over the rated speed (assuming you're not doing something risky like overclocking via BIOS or something of course)

Except that Flash is an open format...just nobody has felt it valuable to implement their own runtime (besides gnash, but they are pretty far from implementing the full spec)

The courts have decided that what Palin did was not a crime. So I'd say a crime is more significant than a non-crime.

The spec for SWF is open, anyone could implement an open viewer if they wanted to. There is a project working towards this, but they are far far behind the official player (Supports much of Flash 7 and a bit of 8. The current official version is Flash 10) http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

Not only that, but the main official compiler most developers use is 100% open source (versus artists, who tend to use the closed source IDE to draw and animate). http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+SDK

Weird, I've booted self-burned CDs in dozens of machines over the past 10 years and never had a problem. You must just be unlucky.

Actually that's not true, you can add SATA drivers onto your XP setup cd. Of course this requires a separate machine to prepare the CD in advance, but generally if someone is manually installing an OS from scratch that's not sold in stores anymore, they should have the expertise to handle this.

Wait, you're claiming that your monitor with one of the highest DPI's on the market is barely readable? (1920x1200 @ 13" = 174 DPI, compare to my desktop monitor which is 96 DPI). I must be missing something here.

Keep looking forward...Pandora is this decade's Duke Nukem Forever.

#2 is actually what Vista and Windows 7 do, unless the app specifically tells the OS that it is DPI-aware (and this method of telling the OS was added in Vista, and is not set by default on apps)

The Wii part is not true. If you send in a Wii for repairs, Nintendo will transfer your licenses to the new console they send back, allowing you to re-download all your content.

You mean you don't have AdBlockUserBlocker installed? It's awesome, I never have to listen to those AdBlock jerks tell me how awesome their plugin is anymore. In fact I almost forgot how annoying they were, until you reminded me of it.

Some of the Kingstons ARE rebadged Intel SSDs, but some are not. Depends on which model.