This is too little, too late.

Anything that requires me to be physically present to swap media during a backup isn't even up for consideration.

300Gb of data per disc means I'd have to swap discs a dozen times to back up my current pile of data data. Not happening.

By the time it reaches 1Tb per disk I'll have even more data to back up. Half a dozen swaps? Still not happening. I want to set the backup going then go to bed while it does its thing.

I don't want to tell Americans what I get for $50 a month in my "2nd world" country...

Sure, but there's no need for them to sit in our chairs or wear human sneakers and designer jeans.

Allowing a bit of leeway on the exact size/shape of the parts could make everything else a lot better (and cheaper).

In an environment where stairs are just the "emergency exit" (ie. most factories, hospitals, office buildings, apartments, etc.) then adding bipedal legs is pointless.

Do you know how many people die on the toilet each year while "straining at stool"?

Maybe we should ban that.

So can cats and dogs.

Cats can also go places I can't and get over obstacles I have to go around.

Dogs can move _much_ faster then me.

My cat isn't bipedal but has no problem with stairs. How weird is that?

And there's no way a robot could have a special rail to grab onto or a little elevator like granny has?

Bipeds are the only option!

No it isn't. The issue is that us geeks do real work and have things called 'files' on the computer.

I'm sure Windows 8 is fine for using Facebook and playing online games.

I think the last time I saw it was when I connected to a Raspberry Pi last year with some free X11 client or other.

I cracked up laughing when it appeared.

I dunno, I always get a big belly laugh whenever I log into something and see that horrible 1980s B&W X11 desktop, complete with ugly 'X' cursor.

Use textures! And stencil bitplanes!

They're only breaking the spirit of the law, not the letter.

That makes it perfectly OK, just ask the NSA if you don't believe me.

But ... the CO2!

+1 Insightful.

What about windy days? Can we outlaw them, too.

And escalators. They often give people an eyeful of thigh (and not all of it is pretty, ew!)

Many upskirts will show less than a miniskirt or booty shorts. How will that factor in to the new law? Will the length of the skirt be taken into account?

So many questions....

Weird that the system requirements for DX11 suddenly changed later on - to allow XP!

http://community.spiceworks.co...

Some people might think that it was mean old bad microsoft after all...that the "obsolete archaic OS" thing was just a lie.