Yes, my last two laptops where from Dell, and both died from hardware problems. I had poor wifi performance with both. One had the disadvantage that the keys fell of the keyboard, also the wifi button came loose. One of them had some fault on the motherboard, so that it got occational corruptions in the memory, which was very annoying. So when buying a new laptop I just went with a MacBook Pro, as I didn't really know the other manufactures. Well I have had some bad experience with Asus and Acer too, but I like the Asus EEE family.

an 95% accuracy with only one word :)

I wonder if a name change will be enough. Face recognition is quite good today, and I guess it's only a question of time before we can (or someone can) search for people by only having a photo of them. Maybe google will have a button like "search for more photos of this person" :)

I tried to put a virus infected PIC controller in my ear - I only felt slightly more stupid.

Maybe this could become the new unit by which we measure the power consumption of computers. Like my laptop requires 10 cowpower - why not, they use horsepower for cars :)

"As for Bill Gates, Schwartz says he was threatening regarding Sun's efforts in the office software space." Well, what do you expect from a competitor?

I was travelling in China a year ago. I bought an Asus EEE pc there, and without asking me the salesperson started to install a pirated version of Windows. I was quite surprised when I discovered what he was doing; and he evenmore so, when I explained to him that I wanted Linux on the computer:) And this is actually a good thing. Having a free Linux OS pre-installed, gives the customer the ability to choose what OS he/she wants to install, without donating money to Microsoft, Apple, or some other OS manufactorer, which he/she doesn't want to use.

Nice seeing worms doing some good for a change.