We've become addicted to consumption and in this age where multitasking is an essential work survival skill, we consume as much as we can as quickly as we can. It started with TV consumption and has slowly grown to envelop all types of "content" that can be consumed. This is not at all accidental, and has been foisted on us by corporate interests through constant advertising. We've been conditioned not to sit idle, relax, and do nothing these days; we must constantly be consuming something: watching TV, browsing the internet, listening to music, eating, drinking, shopping, etc..; or else made to feel that we're missing something.

It comes as no surprise that a majority of Americans use a second device while watching TV, that's what we've been conditioned to do.

Amen!

First of all, "below-market rates" in the SF Bay area does not equate to "low rent", it simply refers to rental rates that are below the uber-exorbitant standard rents in the area. Most middle-income people still won't be able to afford them no less people of limited income.

Secondly, poor, Hispanic communities do not equate to "ghetto neighborhoods" and "criminal and low life" individual. This kind of racism and elitism does nothing to promote a diverse, productive society.

...what about the $15,000 servers I bought 6 months ago?

Exactly THIS! Proper, stable corporate IT requires stable, consistent software. The "constantly changing" model of Microsoft's new products makes them ill fit for professional use.

Just for the record, it would be most unsettling if the person who built or maintained my car didn't know how to drive a manual transmission. In the same vain, I'm not terribly upset that my admin assistant isn't well versed in computer memory management.

It sure would go a long way in helping to get this once great city heading back in the right direction.

FTW

Ding, ding, we have a winner!!!

Yes, exactly this!!

Exactly! I still loath and the ribbon and always will. It is an abomination of a UI element.

And Metro is even worse!

I totally agree. I have a new Win 7 machine with 6GB of RAM and a nice fast i5 quad-core processor and I don't see any benefits over my old 3GB XP machine at work. What I do see is the same old Windows with a new shiny interface that makes it harder to find the settings I could always find easily in XP. There's something to be said for an OS being 10 years old; it's mature! Why the hell should I have to learn how to find and operate everything all over again? Oh yes, so Microsoft can make more money!

Yes and leave it to Microsoft to break with the age old standard that any key combination containing F1 provides online help, not access to the navigation system.

Absolutely!

Thank you. The current version of FireFox is 4. It was just released a couple of weeks ago. Sorry, but beta doesn't count here.