Thank you! Seemed pretty simple to me...

This was briefly mentioned earlier, but I wanted to state clearly and concisely:

Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate all include licensing for Windows XP Mode, a 32-bit virtualized instance of Windows XP SP3. It is an additional download (actually a couple downloads), but it is free. I use it every day at work (on my 64-bit Win7 machine) to run a 16-bit app that was written in 1992, while I wait for that app's replacement to be written. It works perfectly, in fact much better than VirtualBox did for the same use case (there was laggy/odd redrawing issues with VirtualBox, no matter how many resources I allocated to the virtual machine).

So... a Chevy Volt, then.

Admittedly, it's not "multifuel", but that seems a minor quibble.

Oh, and that's in Chrome -- it's probably not as fast in IE or FF on this machine.

I'm running Win7 x64 with 4GB of RAM on a Celeron 440 here, using D2 with my full comment threshold at 3 and one-line threshold at 1, and it loads and scrolls quickly and smoothly.

2 seconds to load the reply form, 2 seconds to preview. Much improved for me.

Not only have products like this been on the market for some time -- even big enough for laptops -- ThinkGeek sells a better one that keeps your phone from falling.

My XBox 360 came with a 250GB HDD, and I can install my games to the HDD for improved load times without hacking my console.

True, the business-level workstations - i.e. Precisions - can come with Red Hat, I was referring to Ubuntu in particular. They have a lot of FreeDOS as well.

On top of that, why can I only pick two laptops with Ubuntu on them?

The Vostro v13 / Latitude 13 and the Latitude 2100 laptops' base models come running Ubuntu as well, but it is admittedly slim pickings. No desktops?

Assuming all goes well on STS-134, we'd end up with a checked-out, launch-ready shuttle stack that's already been paid for. Atlantis's Launch On Need (LON) mission STS-335 could become STS-135 and fly a stripped-down, 4-person crew to the STS, delivering extra supplies and an additional Multi-Purpose Logistics Module. If something went wrong on STS-134, Soyuz capsules would be used in place of another shuttle LON. Source.

Actually, we can hope she will fly again with clean consciences.

Assuming all goes well on STS-134, we'd end up with a checked-out, launch-ready shuttle stack that's already been paid for. Atlantis's Launch On Need (LON) mission STS-335 could become STS-135 and fly a stripped-down, 4-person crew to the STS, delivering extra supplies and an additional Multi-Purpose Logistics Module. If something went wrong on STS-134, Soyuz capsules would be used in place of another shuttle LON. Source.

Your heirs are living beings. The EULA explicitly states that no living beings may use the software as-licensed. This clearly results in a vicious cycle in which your descendants are punished in perpetuity. I'm guessing the US budget deficit operates under a similar EULA...

Don't forget about the infamous NBC weapons clause in iTunes's EULA:

You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of missiles, or nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.

The reality distortion field will not be weaponized!

Maybe you should have read for 15 seconds -- you might have seen all the reports of the bug still occurring in current versions (such as my own).