I understand what you're saying. There was another speed test done recently by Wired or someone - I can't for the life of me find it. It did 'out of the box' for each browser then each browser was optimized for performance, memory etc. and re-run. The results were significantly different and the motive for the test…

How did you score the final scores when not all browsers participated in all the tests?

I notice you didn't say you were running the browser tests in default, out of the box mode like you usually do. If you did then Chrome's new pre-rendering feature wouldn't skew its results as you wouldn't have previously cached the page. Also speaking about the one browser I know well, but I'm sure each browser has…

IE7 and above is no longer based on Mosaic, that is why it isn't credited.

It's not because MSIE plays nice with standards that it loads or fails to load your pages - it's because pages are increasingly being designed not to work with Firefox and IE but only with Webkit browsers. As I've said before, MSIE is the most standards compliant browser... it's just down to web page coders to become…

I try do everything without third party software wherever practical - it's the weakest link in any OS.

I think xp let's you do that but I'd be most surprised if you could do that on W7. It doesn't have a 'Run as' option best I remember.

A different way to do something similar without installing third party software is to enable the preview pane in Explorer. If you select a media file a mini-WMP opens in the preview pane and plays your stuff. Do it again in another explorer window, and again, and again...

ARM stands for Acorn Risc Machine and was originally developed in the 1980s for a computer badged for the BBC in England. What I'm reading tells me that this could run a 286 emulator faster than a natural 286 ran! In the 80s! RISC, as the other commenters note is a reduced instruction set chip and because of the…

The desktop is going to be just another Office App; Word, Excel, PP, and Desktop. Explorer too... just a part of Office. The task manager is a separate entity.

Bitty

creeped!=crept;

Thanks

Yeah - they all got one head two arms and two legs every last one of them! Oh wait...

I keep reading all this sugru stuff. Can it be used to make replacement earbuds? I have a BT headset and I lost one of the replaceable rubbery ear things - the molded bit you insert in your ear. Does this stuff dry rigid, or soft and flexible?

For the longest time I mistranslated FTW as... well you know!

What's the resized image quality? I use Office Picture Manager because it's compressed image quality is second to none but the app isn't available separately, only with the Office suite so it's not available for everyone. It's not the quickest or easiest to use either.

I don't see anything H about your O; M maybe, but not H.

I fly regularly but not frequently and it is still a novel experience for me because of that. I enjoy all the airport nonsense to a certain extent, and the plane flight too. I was actually pulled in for a strip search last year. I had a vajazzle made from threaded gold wires and it set off the alarms. The monitor with…

It's horses for courses. Opera is well suited to the data-throttled mobile world but in a desktop environment it doesn't really offer things the others have.