Every benchmark I've ever seen which put a Mac booted into Windows against equivalent machines from the usual suspects (Lenovo, Dell, HP) showed that Mac hardware ran Windows faster than the competition. I agree with you that running virtualized Windows is going to be a little bit slower (and pretty useless for…

Damn, I could by a virtual sword for that kind of money!

Yen and kimonos are Japanese, not Chinese.

There is no recipe which can't be improved by always using at least a whole head of garlic.

Is today RTFA Day or something? Because there are like five comments already from people talking about how movement is a bad indicator of sleep stages, when the article fucking clearly states that the Zeo DOESN'T USE MOVEMENT but instead DOES A BRAINWAVE SCAN.

There's a new X-Wing Lego model coming out in 2012 that is supposed to be better than any of the three currently available. So I'd wait a couple months and buy that anyway.

I bought the ship pictured (it's a "hard to find" item). But at Amazon. Even though the base price is less expensive on Lego's site, the tax and shipping make it $0.28 more expensive than the Amazon Prime price. So I just bought it through Amazon.

The roads must roll...

Well, then Happy Feast of the Saturnalia! Since Xmas replaced that to make Christianity more palatable to the Roman populace. (Yeah, I'm also a survivor of ten years of Catholic school).

So they've invented non-alchoholic beer goggles?

I love that episode.

Why is this guy rubbing his nipples?

Haven't you heard? There is no spoon.

I went through the reddit thread, and there are a lot of people transferring domains. Don't know if it will be a big enough set of domain names to put a dent in the 50 million domains under GD, but I guess we'll find out.

Yup. The forecast here for Christmas Day is 72F. I went golfing two days ago and it was in the 60s. There is no better climate to live in in the US.

Playing Nintendo was a better use of your time anyway.

There can be only one: Lunatik.

There is certified UNIX, and there is everything else. MacOS X is a certified UNIX. That has a specific meaning in terms of how any certified UNIX can play with any other certified UNIX. In other words, UNIX is now a reference platform, with several distributions being certified against the reference model.

The whole thing could be very easily rectified by Carrier IQ if the devices encrypt the data blob before sending and only the carrier has the keys. Even if Carrier IQ stored data in transit for some period of time, they wouldn't be able to read it, so no issues.