I think, as has previously been said, the difficulty in getting physical access to the business end of the hardware is infinitely harder than actually exploiting the equipment. The operating system is the least of your worries when you are trying to work out how to get to the machine itself, thus rendering the choice of operating system pretty much pointless, when you have things to worry about such as availability of software, cost based on insurance against this sort of thing, etc etc

I have to agree. Listen to someone from Bavaria speaking, it almost has a lilt to it.

Once again Microsoft's methods are dubious, but you are still getting a very good operating system gratis for a year.

Lithium is a very old drug used for Manic Depression. What it actually does is takes the top and bottom off your moods. So someone with manic depression (which is actually characterised by extremes of mood, not just 'really depressed') will attempt to take those extremes out, hopefully rendering them 'normal'. It is, however, extreme, and most people who take it aren't happy with it, because they don't feel themselves.

I would imagine, if you had a constant stream of Lithium administered to you throughout your life, you wouldn't know what your were like without it. I wonder if these people are generally less 'extreme' than the majority of people. I am no psychologist/psychiatrist (IANAP if there is such a phrase), but I wonder if you could experimentally determine this, shown in more ways than just a lack of suicide.

Damn straight.

I have 7 RC installed on a very very very underpowered Lenovo laptop, the kind of thing that ran Ubuntu with a struggle. 7 however, is very fluid, even the fancypants aero effects, with the transparencies work.

I think Microsoft just may be onto the next XP here.

H have an MX Revolution, which is obviously bigger, but I love it. I have never had a problem with the Logitech software in either Windows or OS X, even in the Windows 7 beta or RC. It's not too bad with linux either. But I have it set up so when I scroll the mouse wheel at a sufficient speed it just goes to the freewheel mode, leaving the wheel click action for the standard middle click.

Really is a fantastic mouse.

That is very true, I was being somewhat facetious when I commented there. But if the camera is limited to when there is no traffic, when the lights seem to change `unfairly', I honestly can't see the problem.

It is still against the rules of the road to enter an intersection if you aren't positive that you can't get out again

A4 isn't meant to be equal to the golden ratio. It is meant to be 1/Root2, or Root2, depending on your outlook on life. Designed such that if you stick two of them together, you get the next size up. Or on cutting one in half, get the next size down; again, depending on your outlook on life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size

Which is even more the case if you virtualise an operating system.

Fluid dynamics basically says that at very close distances to a surface, it doesn't matter how fast the fluid is flowing, the wind speed at the surface is very low, and approaches zero. So maybe he made it!

All this is going to do is drive up piracy. More expensive computer games won't stop people getting them, it will just make more people decide they dont want to pay £50 or whatever they will charge for them, and download it instead.

Truly fantastic idea...

Don't you mean, there are only 10 types of women?