Let us offer prayers to the almighty Google, and thank it for delivering unto us a new shiny tablet interface.

@dadum01: IIRC xEmacs has a Windows version. Not the friendliest UI, but feature rich and plenty of documentation.

@T-Will: This is a Power Users article. We don't buy Macs, we builds Hackintoshes.

@Bobz: Kind of unfortunate when you think about it. I'm ready for some 1600P already, yet such awesomeness is still reserved for $1000+ screens.

Site has ben successfully BlogDoS'd. Will be sure to check it out once it comes back up.

@Joe Eversole: A disturbing plight, I know, one that I fear I will be noticing all too keenly for myself within next year.

@registeraccount21: Unfortunately, cell phone networks were commercial from the get-go. It would have been much nicer if it had turned out similar to the Internet (grew initially out of university use, no big history of commercialization), but that's not how things turned out :(. A move by Apple that I'm really…

The marketing event of the year, now in eye-popping 3D!

@Mike Worldcrusher: A good point, however it's slightly pointless trying to dissect a joke for factual inaccuracies.

@Chicken: Begone! Take your unfortunately truthful sarcasm somewhere else!

3D monitor to play on, along with the requisite glasses (pretty sweet, Bad Company 2 is even more fun with it if that's possible), Pandora One subscription, and Inception Blu-Ray.

@Aarrrgh: look closely, it was 'shopped in.

@jpearls: though XBMC won't be supporting native recording, it does support reading off a MythTV backend and will soon be coming out with a recording setup UI 'soon'. For now, you have to use Myth's web UI from another machine to choose recordings and myth itself is a pain to configure, but once those hurdles are…

Qemu's fast, but it doesn't do any sort of hardware video acceleration last I checked. By default it doesn't come with any sort of UI, but Qemu-launcher is a decent frontend for it. Overall, though, Virtualbox is better for desktop virtualization IMO.

@DirtyDogg: I guess we can be happy it didn't add any new painful things. Take what you can get with Microsoft and all that. I'd have to say the biggest annoyance that wasn't done away with is the whole driver signing deal. Until very recently I would have to reboot and manually disable signing just to use my…

@xTRICKYxx: eh, IMO 7 didn't do much besides add a few fairly minor UI tweaks and get rid of the now-infamous product name. Sure, 7 isn't very buggy in general use, but Vista SP1 wasn't either. So, good marketing move, but not a lot of engineering going on there.

@Platypus Man: Computation fails on invalid input. Boolean logic may only be returned after a correct computation, thus silence is not necessarily a violation. Maybe the system is actually a quantum computer, and bits are actually qbits (3 states). Also, I have escaped the machine and have come to purge you from the…

@cowboybebopfan: There's a window border around the background. I can't see the border clearly, but I would assume that it's an image viewer unfortunate enough to be in the foreground when the system went braindead.

@jeffmanster888: Vista (and, by extension, 7) use a different framework for app drawing, one that doesn't fall victim to redraw errors that were so common in XP. The technology used is "compositing," in case you didn't know, and it's the same thing that allows window animations in Vista/7.

@xTRICKYxx: Everything was cutting edge at some time. Hardware in desktop systems has not gotten significantly more reliable or bug-free. Things could still run on the hardware IF they were well-designed. Guess what wasn't? You guessed it, Windows XP! You will not be missed, you plasticy blue piece of unartisticly…