Actually, Hotmail sucks in this regard. If an e-mail address isn't on your contact list, but you receive a ton of e-mail over time from that address (there's a certain threshold), at some point, any additional e-mail sent by that address is automatically marked as spam. And you can't get it to not be marked as spam until you actually put the address into your contact list. So I have a whole bunch of mailing list e-mails that end up in my spam folder along with all the Viagra e-mails, as well as correspondences from certain individuals, making the spam folder utterly useless.

I don't know if things have changed recently, but that's been the way it worked for a long, long time.

Holy shit! Where do you live? And most importantly, can you use these death points to purchase quality sex?

Chill dude. It's merely an article for our amusement.

It's just a slashvertisement. We get these every so often. At least this one's for a respected, FOSS company. And it's a fairly transparent slashvertisement.

Wait, what? Smaller disk footprint?

With windows 8, you need to add the start button on your own. I'll take the start button over some little-used run cmd as admin anytime.

I have a better idea. Instead of we the end user put up with Microsoft's crap just so we can give them feedback, why not just give them feedback by not purchasing it at all.

Is that Stockholm syndrome I smell?

Why did you just post a bunch of stars?

Salt goes well with hashes.

Open Office is more or less playing catch up right now to LibreOffice.

And it kills me that such a good product has such a ridiculous name. It's a complete embarassment to say out loud. /rant

Arg, I meant music streaming apps.

And I can't even blame this on it being late at night (or early in the morning for that matter).

The real question is whether Apple will ban other internet streaming apps from the app store once they release their service.

This is what happens when you let a bunch of lawyers take over the country's judicial system. Every business is scared shitless of lawsuits. Every little complaint results in a massive overreaction.

It won't burn you, but it might make you less... potent.

There are two reasons why x86 Windows would eat battery.

First, Intel's processors are not power savers. They eat power. They consume power to perform computations, they consume power to cool themselves down to keep from overheating when computing. Just having to translate x86 CISC to RISC on the chip before doing the computation is an additional step that uses power. Even if Atom can turn itself off when idle, it cannot avoid the x86 overhead.

Second, Windows is a resource hog. It was never a very well-coded OS. It was open, and popular (due to its DOS legacy as a result of IBM), but not written with efficiency in mind. And not only that, but with Windows running, the machine will never sit idle. It'll always be doing something in the background.

But Windows 8 isn't going to replace desktops with tablets at work anytime soon. Hell, work machines aren't going to replace Windows XP and 7 with Windows 8 at all, whether on the desktop or some other form factor. It's not that Microsoft declared war on their hardware partners. Instead, I think they declared war on the user. Their hardware partners are just collateral damage.

Well, if it's a laptop that runs Windows 8, then the answer is because it runs Windows 8. You can't really get the full experience of Windows 8 out of a laptop. Then again, you probably wouldn't want any experience with Windows 8 at all.

Well, maybe he's now working as a janitor at the McDonalds?