Gmail does this. first.last@gmail.com is the same as firstlast@gmail.com.

Fsck off somewhere else then, no-one is forcing you to stay.

I was under the impression that the Windows 8 on the Surface Pro worked with something called 'Secure Boot' in the hardware, that prevented other OSs from being installed onto it?

It doesn't cost 25k to build a relatively good personal cinema, you can do it for less than 5k and still have a better experience than most local mutiplexes. Since building my cinema (2.8m screen, HD projector, top end amp, loads of speakers) I've found that I much prefer watching movies at home. In fact as the sound is optimised for where I sit. the audio experience is vastly superior.

Gatting back on topic - I wonder how scalable this subscription model is? surely if there's only says 400 seats, and i'm the 401th subscriber, I'd really pissed off if I couldn't get a set for a first night showing of a new blockbauster - how are they intending to manage that? If the demand was high then I guess a waiting list of sorts like a members only type club - but then people would be expecting a bit more than just access to the movie (proper bar area, food etc.).

-Jar

I have had Linux From Scratch bookmarked for a couple of years now. Sadly I can never find the time to actually do it. In a world where every boy and his dog thinks that Linux starts and ends with Unbuntu, I feel if I want to know Linux, I have to start with rolling my own kernel and then building from there.

Most younglings wouldn't get it; they just want Stuff To Work, Right Now. Who do they think creates this Stuff in the first place?!

I'm also hindered by the fact that I am Windows Guru. No, a real one. I _know_ Windows, right now to the nuts and bolts like decompiling DLLs to work out why they crash. I'm a rare breed in that arena too, in fact the desktop Linux fanboi's are now all starting to sound a lot like the idiot 20-something 'Windows Admins' with spiky hair and loud suits that I have to suffer. :(

Grumble, Grumble, I'm back off to my cave.

-Jar.

WTF? PATRICK Moore, not ROGER Moore.

You frikkin idiots. Slither back to 4Chan where you belong. :(

-Jar

Ok - Instead of whinging about it, let's all form a working group, and create a /. type site that has all the best features that /. USED to have.

I'd definitely contribute if such an effort existed.

-Jar

I have a legacy 32bit XP install with 4Gb ram, which obviously XP can only see 3.2Gb - are you saying I can RAM disk the 'lost' 800Mb? if so - got a link that shows me how?

Thanks,

-Jar

Kinda. XP 64bit RTM is patched to XP 32Bit SP1. So effectively XP 64bit SP2 is equal to XP 32bit SP3, patch level wise. They did the same with Server 2003 also iirc.

-Jar

Heads up though.... it's gone in Windows 8 (of course) - it's been replaced by Client Hyper V. Yes, a cut down Hyper-V service for running XP (or whatever) as a VM. Plus you also lose that nice seamless windows thing it could do.

Me, I just installed VirtualBox. It's the best VM software out there. And it's free.

-Jar

Real Life LOL right here. AND you made me spew my tea you bastard. ;)

Dark Knight (& Rises) change aspect ratios on blu-ray because the original versions had sections optimised for IMAX format. That said, you still lost vertical image info as full IMAX ratio is 4:3 - I recall seeing The Dark Knight at the London IMAX and the full 4:3 ratio was used, I've not seen Rises yet but it looks like it only shifts between 21:9 and 16:9 as newer IMAXs don't go 4:3.

This is why I love my Dell 2408WFP - it's getting on a bit now, and the color management isn't as good as it should be (but I have a Huey for that), but it's 16:10 with a resolution of 1920x1200 - absolutely wonderful. I never maximise anything, and mostly have several cascaded portrait shaped windows displayed across it.

Back to topic. I think what Linus actually means is that he wants a higher resolution so that there are no jaggies on fonts, and scrollbars and widgets look sharper. The actual perceived font size (in inches etc.) would be the same - so all these comments about tiny fonts, and 8 way code diffs, are completely missing the point.

Think of it this way, you watch the same movie on a 720p screen, and then on a 1080p screen - do you see more of the movie picture on the latter? No. It's just _sharper_.

-Jar

Same company. They just dropped the Siemens suffix in 2009 when they finalised the takeover.

Your information is out of date, according to this BBC article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19622330

Which cheered me up no end, considering that I'm 40 myself.

-Jar