You can also directly upgrade to the RTM version, however you will not be able to keep the programs, just your personal files. The price is still $40 but you will still need a valid W7,Vista or XP serial number.

1. "vastly altered" -not really, just the start menu is gone, everything else works the way it did, except much better and much quicker than in windows 7.

Or the better picture quality...

Isn't sharepoint changing it's name to Skydrive Pro or something?

Seriously! I would argue that my SR80i is better than the HD700 which is like a tenth of the cost.

VBA in Excel

As others pointed this out, it has been in windows for a long time now. But in the end voice recognition has to be perfect for it to be even slightly viable, the reason being that all you need is one bad experience and you will never use it again. The other problem is that people have hugely varying accents and…

Control Panel->Ease of Access-> Speech Recognition.

I was always good at rendering but crap at modelling. But I just want to point out that one of the reasons why Maya is so amazing and the industry loves it so much is because of tool bars and the quick menu(or wtv they call it).

My Core 2 Duo E6600 computer I built myself with dual 250gb seagates(first mainstream perpendicular recording drives) set in raid and a 8800GTS 640mb. The reason why I loved it was because it was just when the E6600 came out and the performance jump was massive, same with the 8800GTS, such amazing performance.

I'm pretty sure this is only available in Windows 8 Enterprise version...

This exactly why I studied mathematics... No one does lazy as good as mathematicians do!

What he says is still partly true since having a small sensor means you don't need as large of a lens and therefore easier to manufacture a larger aperture lens. With that said a small large aperture lens needs to be really high quality in order to deliver maximum sharpness to a small sensor as a small high-res sensor…

Grado SR80i, it'll do a good job of sealing outside sound but it's an open design so not great for use in public.

On public transportation I use a pair of earbuds, they aren't the greatest to be honest (Sennheiser something). At home though I use Grado SR80i, it's a great experience for a great price but sadly it's not really possible to use in public because of the open design.

That's probably a statement that will ring true to most people, and people who care about quality have probably been using their actual camera since before "high-res" screens came along anyway and will continue to do so.

*sigh* It's a sad state of affair for people that care about quality. Unfortunately (Or fortunately depending on how you see it) we get used to these things.

What can I say? I like to make my lols as obvious as possible.

This made me lol when I realized it wasn't the author who wrote it.

Microsoft has been working on applying this already: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=162795