Two words: Finger grease.

It's already unbearable on a small smartphone with an oleophobic glossy screen that you use sparingly. Now imagine having to regularly clean a 27" monitor with a matte surface.

The Maintenance Service does not run at startup, but only when Firefox itself instructs it to do. It's installed with Startup type set to "Manual".

Seriously, before you whine at least take the time to read the damn bug.

IE9 uses dead code ellimination, that hits Sunspider. Nevertheless, it's JS engine, Chakra, is very fast.

Just a correction, the Java Linpack benchmark result is 214 MFLOPs, not 162.

The reason is ARM.

TFS and the shitty FA mention "17ms Sunspider time" (and that's impossible), while the Anandtech figure is a more believable 1695ms. Anand's review also measuers linpack performance at 47.2 MFLOPS. Compare that to the 508ms and 162MFLOP result (lower is better) of a 2004 single-core AMD Sempron 3100+ running at 1.9GHz. And this 2004 CPU is very slow compared to anything modern.

Currently, ARM is very slow for general computing, and don't listen to what x86 doomsayers parrot everyday.

I haven't had CCFL monitors fail on me. CCFL lifespan (like home fluorescent lighting) is more influenced from on/off cycles than power on hours. Setting the monitor's at sleep at 30 minutes (as opposed to 5 minutes) significantly improves the lifetime of the backlight.

At very low duty cycles(5-15%) a very high frequency is required for flicker-free operation and since most LED backlit displays are either low-end TNs or TVs, manufacturers find it hard to justify the a better IC that would increase the cost of BOM significantly. Dell's 2*12 IPS series doesn't suffer from flickering, but most other LED-backlit monitors (and even many mobile phones) do.

And subsequently have a bluish white-point (non-optimal), smaller gamut (because of the light spectrum produced by the LED) and can be tiring at low brightness settings for some people (including me) because of the PWM brightness control. No professional-grade monitor uses white-LED backlighting.

Change is not always for the better.

Netcraft confirms that Perl is dead.

Toilet paper tubes. Cables sit snuggly inside, and the open top aljows for easy identification of where each cable is when you have them neatly arranged in a box.

I'm running Windows 7 on a 2005 single-core Sempron 3100+ with 1GB for RAM and an outdated nVidia 6800 AGP GPU and I have not noticed any noticable performance degradation when I switched from XP, so clearly, you must be doing something wrong.

You should schedule your checks to be more frequent. Like... more frequent than once every 2 years.

You missed an event flag.

...didn't include hack-and-slash dungeon crawlers/RPGs.

If you're looking for actual adventures, then the Syberia series is a good point to start. Modern in their design, accessible mechanical puzzles and a wonderful non-violent story. There's also Amerzone, Myst and The longest Journey.

Various governments around the world can impose a tax on the liquid, effectively being able to keep that huge income stream intact. When the price at the pump is 75% tax (in my glorious socialist EU country), at 1,70€/liter...

Electric cars can use 20Amp 3-phase chargers to charge the batteries (albeit slowly) without requiring any changes in the electrical systems of a house. This makes government budget centers iffy, since they cannot easily tax you (despite the fact that in many EU countries you already pay for a yearly tax in excess of 150€).

Cars with liquid-rechargeable batteries would allow them to control distribution of the liquid and keep taxing it.