You never do. It's the side of the consumer, and most likely, the squeaky wheel syndrome.

So, Amazon is AWESOME if you're a buyer (of real physical stuff). If you're a seller of real stuff, or buyer of digital stuff, you're basically screwed then.

Ye Olde iPade makes for a good scanner replacement in ye olde pinche.. You know, scanners? The things we used to use to digitize documents?

Who's Greg Lemond and will he be accused of doping three years down the line? And be proven (at least causally, if not factually) five years down the line?

Technically, that used to be the case in the US as well with DCMA. It still is to a degree, in that the corporations can do a censorship on your speech via DCMA takedown.

Unless you're running a PC that's 10 years old, the power button function actually is part of the OS operation. You can even change its behavior in the power settings. The 4 seconds hold will override any sort of software and directly shut down a PC.

Regedit should be hidden on purpose. I think, for the most part, things in the Windows, Program Files, and their subdirectories are hidden by default. Any and almost everything (save temp and settings) in your directory, revamped in Vista I'd like to say as Libraries, are indexed in search by default. Makes using…

Simple. Don't use Verizon, period.

True, but I'd imagine that if you're keeping your machine in a tower or something, you'd be handy enough to put a shutdown icon on the desktop or something for easy shutdown.

Nope. Multiple screen works as it did in the past, just the start screen takes up your primary display. If you set that as your smaller of the two (or the lesser of the two if you have two identically sized screens), it shouldn't get in the way that much.

You mean your computer has no power button? Well, that's going to be an issue of sorts.

Like Hypnochicken.

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Does it involve some sort of vaporization of the third branch of the gubmint? At least some vaporization of more... conservative or liberal members?

I'll just leave this here.

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They ain't home office. In fact, I'm not sure they're homes.

Well, differ'nt strokes for differ'nt folks. For me, there's too much ambient noise at these public places, and even with IEMs and other noise blocking methods, there's still too much cruff. If I want to store and hove in as much as possible, then I'll transcode into 128kbps MP4. Otherwise, I'd just straight…

Indeed. Too bad Spiner's performances on the movies (thanks in no part due to bad scripts as well) totally gutted whatever foundations he built on the TV series.

Second Paragraph in the USE VARIABLE BITRATE SECTION, and I quote: "...listen to them in this format, since it's impossible for most people to tell the difference between a lossless MP3 and a 320kbps MP3."