My wife (a teacher) bought them to give to teacher-friends. The cool part (to me) was that they came with those little fruit cushions.

If they're doing it right, this. My wife wouldn't even hear her phone (she's too loud).

Three things could factor into it. Crapware (but this is less and less of an issue as manufacturers have gotten the message). Tweaking the install (R&D) which was done here. And lastly, additional support cost. If Dell sells it, they have to support it. That means training up new tech to handle Linux issues. And…

Only 76? I would have expected a much higher number when searching for snowman.

Good one......

Best part of the whole video was "Mom. MO-om!" The rest was meh.

My crappy attempt.

Sucks to be the guy in the hut......

Here's the link: http://www.amazon.com/Home-Right-C800771-Quick-Painter/dp/B003IHVALK/ref=sr_1_6?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1354146222&sr=1-6&keywords=homeright+paint+stick

Same here. Mine is black and yellow, but similar to the one at this Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Home-Right-C800771-Quick-Painter/dp/B003IHVALK/ref=sr_1_6?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1354146222&sr=1-6&keywords=homeright+paint+stick

I have a plastic, spring-loaded device that does a similar job. You stick a nozzle into the paint and pull back on this stick. Then you put the paint pad on the nozzle and squeeze a trigger. The spring pushes paint back through the nozzle onto the pad. It's more or less the same but mine was under $10. I'll see…

Planescape:Torment vs BG2. Discuss. :)

Yes. And pick up Planescape: Torment. It's based on the same game engine and is technically AD&D, but it does more with the planes and psionics. But really, the story for PS:T is really good (and the skull is funny).

Given that Win8 runs on any hardware that can run XP-SP3 or Vista or Win7, there is less and less need to upgrade frequently anyway......so Win8 should already have an impact on sales......and really, I've added at least a year to how long I keep hardware because I haven't been hitting the wall as quickly as I once…

But they aren't. And Microsoft is taking it one step further integrating some overlap with the Xbox, too. The design metaphor carries over, but more importantly, a lot of the code carries over, too.

Here's a more technical description of how to pick good lenses. Not just a primer into what they are, but a technical basis for selecting two similar lenses.

This is the only statement on the Internet that is a lie.

Well timed destruction of evidence? Sounds like something they'd do in some mid-budget movie.

Wikipedia says the original DVD did the random ending.......which is how it should be.

I was under the impression that each theater chose which ending to show (and potentially changed it occasionally) so that people would discuss the movie more. Thus, each ending had to be fully supported. I didn't see it until it came out on VHS, so I saw all of the endings at once.