Riding the Fire Mares was always (since I was a kid) one of my favourite pieces by Horner. I am truly saddened by his passing and I'll always keep celebrating his life's work. Good bye Maestro.

But DirectX 10 on Windows XP is impossible!, MS said so.

Get one of those 30" and mount it vertically. It makes for an awesome /. reading platform... specially awesome if you've got another 30" next to it in landscape mode :)

... here is a positive: Colin McRae's Dirt2: the game feels so polished on the PC that I'd think it was designed for it.

Another negative: NFS shift: there's no way to avoid watching the 10 second or so video clip at the start and re-start of every race if you don't press the 'A' button... which it seems cannot be mapped to the keyboard or to a button on a non-xbox controller... very annoying when trying and re-trying to get a race right.

Tip: With the pinnacle game profiler program and enough patience you can customize your controller to cover for the lack of attention the game developers put on the port to the PC.

Oh crap, /. ate the code... okay lets try again: <?=date('Y')?> there!

I always write

Chair was literally thrown out of Microsoft, so Google hired it, it is a good chair after all.

Not yet. Let the thing get popular enough, let TV get unpopular enough and let's see in a few years.

Yay, now this icon I made some years ago has become more relevant: http://www.linuxcentral.com/_v3/_site_components/html/data_box/left_gray_box/hdr-newsletter.gif

More distractions for drivers will eventually mean more cyclists being killed on the road. Looking on the bright side, this could accelerate the eventual transition towards having computers assume control of vehicles on the streets.

Shouldnt plural be Penomeae II or something?

This could mean the tech basis for future electric jet engines, right?