Owner as in my work bought it for me. I love it. Would I pay for it myself? Probably not. I build the systems I use at home, and I just can't stomach the investment.

Your example is lame. Resale value. What was the % drop for both? The windows machine started out lower, ended up lower. What is the %, is it significant?

If you don't have that kind of information, you're only Once and For All proving your headlines are misleading. Just like that damn pilot guy - headline about farting and when it comes time to talk about it he's too shy. I felt misled.

To the guy with the Quadra in 1994, congrats on using telnet...LOL.

It's called Linux and it's the one Google is using to make android.

At most websites I consider to be interactive, readers get to rate the letters/posts other readers make.

At Salon, the editors choose which thoughts are worthy.

Such is interactivity, I suppose.

Posting a one way conversation in a different medium (video as opposed to written word) is not interactivity. It's just a different flavor of the same old same old.

What a weak article.

Oprah Ruined the Marathon! Well, if she did, she ruined it for you, but only because you're basically a petulant little 4 year old.

You're basically saying that if the conservative movement abandons the only thing that ever brought it electoral success: manipulation of racism and xenophobia in Southern religious whites, they can survive and/or grow up.

I think you're missing something big here. Without those cheap tactics (add voter intimidation and disenfranchisement to the list) they don't have any chance of winning any elections.

That's their whole strategy. To the extent they have won, they have won using the very strategies you're now recommending they eschew. Not gonna happen. They don't know any other way.

Just wait 20 years until all the Fox news / O'Reilly viewers kick the bucket, and we'll see what life the conservative movement has in it.

My bet is not much.

"remember Windows, remember Internet Explorer"

Yes, I remember when Mac's OS lagged way behind with no protected memory and Apple's machines were much less powerful and more expensive.

I also remember when Internet Explorer was a much better browser than its competitors (circa IE 4). It's not like Firefox existed in 1999.

Also, you seem to be saying the world adopted Microsoft's products out of mere weariness instead of a combination of better features and their anti-competitive practices.

I guess you're not a journalist, but a blogger, so we can forgive some of your uninformed ranting.

I think you should try to select a font and background that makes your blog even less readable than it is now.

"In the White House" does not mean "President."

Were you in a hurry?

Well said.

What about Hockey?

When the 2nd reported says "I did *NOT* say that," there is a huge grin on her face.

I think it was an innocent and playful moment between colleagues as one of them prepares to move on, professionally.

The humor on both sides (April Ryan and Tony Snow) was evident and nice to see.

Relax. If you want, you can still think Tony Snow is a tool. I know I do :)

It cuts both ways. I personally find the degree of concordance between the values of our own dear right wing and the so-called islamofascists odd and disturbing.

I think it's more than a little disingenuous when those who stand in the way of these enlightenment values at home are so frothy about defending them abroad.

For me, the author makes the wrong point.

As the pilot said, the amount of people flying has doubled.

How could this be possible without enormous subsidies, both in the form of direct bailouts to the airline industry as well as our government shielding us all from the true cost of burning fuel in such quantities?

Add to that delayed flights, grumpy airport workers, and security procedures that are so stupid an missing the point as to be insulting to one's intelligence and it's a wonder why anyone flies.

If the airlines were forced to build in the true cost of actual flight, including the environmental costs, the prices would be so high that flying wouldn't even exist.

Maybe it shouldn't.

I know personally I am sick of my government bailing out these shitty businesses that have poor customer service and whose product has only deteriorated in every sense of the word in the last couple of decades.

So when Gwen Ifill has Condi Rice over to her house for dinner (which she does), and then lobs her some softballs when interviewing her (which she also does), how come Gwen gets to keep her job?

Probably because she wasn't in a bikini, I'd guess. Nobody cares about corruption and integrity unless there's sex involved.

I never read you anymore because of your unapologetically poor coverage of hockey.

You claim you're not biased, and your poor coverage stems from hockey's status as a niche sport, akin to curling or somesuch.

Now you're arguing in favor of more coverage of a minor league sport?

You see, poor people had a chance to be godly, aka rich and conservative, and they blew it. Therefore, they are not deserving of God's love or the compassion of humanity. Unborn babies, on the other hand, only become moral (ie economic and political) failures *after* emergence from the womb. While they're in there, they get the benefit of the doubt.

It's not like Jesus went around hobnobbing with poor people or anything...