According to Google's help page [www.google.com] turning on that function only works if you're sending a text to another Google Voice number. That is, if you have this option on, sending a text from your phone to another person's Google Voice number will result in the receiving party seeing your Google Voice number as…

I realize we're now at the voting phase, but my current card is pretty great: AmEx Accelerated Cash Rewards through BoA. I just get a flat 1.25% on every purchase, no minimums or limits. Only slightly above the standard 1% and obviously not as high as the 5% you can wrangle with some cards, but it's just easy.

@wjglenn: Yeah, it's not really borne of anything rational. The only thing I might end up using with Professional would be XP mode. I've gone back and forth so many times, but now I'm thinking I'll just stick with Home Premium on the new computer, as a couple of other people have advised.

Re: socializing after work, it's not that I'm anti-social; I just do not enjoy hanging out at a bar for hours on end drinking and talking to tipsy people. I have nothing against it; I just don't personally enjoy it. Seeing as how that is like 80% of coworker socializing (the other 20% being golf), I'm never really…

@TheFu: That actually would have been my first choice, but I believe that discount is no longer available (I think you can get it for around $70 or so?) Maybe it didn't sound that way in my initial question, but I was looking for a way to do this without "stealing" anyway. I'm not going to play the rationalizing…

@chiruanna: I guess it would depend on how much more capacity and how much slower the one hard drive is compared to the other.

@scoobertron: But then I'd be stuck using the old machine??

@e-gadgetjunkie: But swearing is how I get things done. Well, damn.

@bobby.tables: Yeah, I'm still heavily considering that option, but I've already used up a fair portion of what I call my "computer karma" on...other things. I just figured if there were an easy way to switch the OSes, I might as well do that and avoid at least some of the moral ambiguities.

@JordanAT: I actually went through a similar process to upgrade my old computer to Win7 Pro (the old computer was 32-bit Vista, and I switched to 64-bit Win7, so there was this whole ordeal to go through). There's actually a way to do the process without having to call. There's this special program that will "back up"…

I'm getting a new laptop with OEM Windows 7 Home Premium. My old laptop has Win7 Professional. This OS is not OEM. I purchased it during that student discount upgrade that offered the same price for Professional as Home Premium (I think it was like $30).

@drongch: Didn't realize there were replies until now. Whoops.

@heytherefancypants: YES. I have a coworker who is so wasteful I'm tempted to force him to pay for my inevitable dental caps.

I know it's pretty late, but:

So, let's take for granted that the comments about this article being incorrect are valid (which I am inclined to do). This only applies for cold weather, though, right?

@srqueso: Thanks. So it seems like any other ISP/Telco: fine as long as you don't have to talk to anybody.

Anyone have any personal experience with U-Verse? AT&T has been progressively screwing me with its DSL service (I'm now down to 768 kbps downstream after an INFURIATING month of really abysmal customer service). I'd like to switch my ISP, but my only other option would be Time Warner, and I don't want to deal with…

This might be a silly question:

@TheFu: I would suggest MKVExtractGUI-2 [www.videohelp.com] because I like reading and saying "GUI", but a) you seem to want to use command line and b) MKVExtract only seems to work for Windows.

@MaxellDVD1: Hmm, I don't see any power savings settings (except for ad hoc network connections). I'll play around with these other settings, though. Thanks for the tip.