Just in case anyone's running the Windows 8 dev version and hasn't discovered this yet:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RPEnabled=0

Bam! Now it's Windows 7 with upgrades.

Microsoft might have it's head in the sand and think that we're all going to love Metro UI, but it's just not going to happen. You know that there will be an option to use the "classic start menu" (which will probably now just be the start menu), just like there was in XP/Vista/7. Even in the dev. build there's a registry value to flip that turns off the Metro UI and gives you the regular start menu back.

Plus, there's no way this Metro UI bulls--- is going to fly in the workplace. It will be fine for Windows 8 Home Edition, but I'd be willing to bet that most of IT would rather switch their systems to Linux or Mac rather than try to get people to figure out how to use the Metro UI. I know I would.

RTS's don't need a story. Games that are based on A Song of Ice and Fire do. That was more of a statement of my gaming preference anyway; it was not meant to be taken as a factual rating of RTS versus RPG games.

-1 for the RTS (unless it has a good story), +1 for the RPG

I had been using Chrome for a while, never having used any of the modern versions of Firefox. I had just stuck with IE for much longer than I should have. A few months ago I decided to give Firefox a try, thinking maybe I had missed out on some neat stuff that Firefox people could do that people using Chrome could not. A week later, Firefox decided to start releasing new versions left and right, the first of which made a couple of my vital extensions stop working. That's when I stopped using Firefox. Chrome is simple and straightforward. Chrome works almost exactly how I want it to right out of the box, whereas I had to tweak Firefox and download a couple more extensions. Chrome automatically syncs everything onto my Google account, including extensions, whereas with Firefox I had to setup an account and rig some other stuff so that I could port my extensions from one installation to another. Firefox is great if your a tweakhead, so I imagine it sits better with the Linux crowd; but anymore I just want stuff to work without having to F with it. I should mention that I would never recommend that any Windows user replace IE as their system default browser with either of them. Just us Chrome or Firefox, and let Windows keep IE as the default.

Yes... but the question was:

In other words, who gets to decide what the difference is between being a dick and being legitimately authoritarian? You? The people being "wronged"? Making admins use their real names would be a bad idea, for the reasons stated above. I don't have an answer, but admins using real names is not it.

I would very much appreciate an invite if anyone has one to spare. Thanks Darren Maas - dleemaas(at)gmail(dot)com

Oh, wait, that s--- is going to cost money? I should have known, I suppose. Oh Microsoft, so close and yet so far away.

I hope you mean they ruined your generation by making everything a matter of law, versus letting them be matters of common sense.

One problem though; it's not just because of slower hardware. There's no Motorola Atrix on that list, and being the owner of one, I'm really wondering why.

Well, I don't know what else to say to the EFF other than they can go eff themselves. Really, who the hell thinks that this is a good idea? They're barking up the wrong tree if they think that individuals should be opening up their own wireless connections, and frankly, the fact that they would even put out such a statement smacks of either superb naivete or downright stupidity. If they want to encourage anything, it should be for business and/or ISPs to build more public access WiFi.

I dunno, there's some bad stuff that goes down there. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/Doom-boxart.jpg

Why, what planet do you think we should be trying to travel to? (Hint: "none" is not an answer)

...who ever thought that this was a good idea (from the article):

Honestly? Why don't we let cops get to keep 40% of the revenue collected from the tickets that they write? Oh yeah, because that would be a motivation for them to exaggerate or write false tickets just to get a larger cut.

...and then like, you would like, just connect the stuff together man, and things would just be there, and you would just be like "woah, man, I'm computing", and it would be more real than reality, man. Really though, what does he suggest as an alternative to files and folders and paragraphs??? It seems this guy's dropped too much acid for one lifetime. I'm for the idea of trying to innovate computer technology, but what does he suggest? Can anyone make sense of what he's trying to get at?