The thing is always cold to the touch.

I'd rather see a set of films set in one of the galactic wars a few thousand years prior.  Would give the writers a lot more freedom, and perhaps capture what "star wars" is supposed to be about.

Hint: not about a lame orchestrated rebellion by people with rubber faces and later, a puny rebellion that should have been wiped out.

But then I suppose if they do a decent job with the story, go into how the empire/republic is falling apart at the end of Episode 6 they can write in some lame minor factional struggles and have some old people involved somehow.

Single biggest flaw in Windows 8.  If I could buy monitors at 4K resolution, I'd let them off a bit.  But with desktop monitors hanging around 90DPI still, we need ClearType.

Let the system worry about it.

I use the "new" version on my Surface.  But it still has some major issues, such as microphone quality degrading when in the background.

Chrome just doesn't have the perf for a lot of things - I've had to scale back CSS animations on websites lately because Chrome just crawls along.

Unfortunately IE is just hated - by people who haven't used it in 5 years.

The only way this will happen is if you actually delete something, the PC fauling up won't do this.  Obviously its something to be concerned about - accidentally deleting something, and having the delete command spread.  But that's what the Recycle Bin is for - and backups.

Does the system still create shadow copies on the local drive?  And we don't have UI for that now?  That's how it looks from my tinkering.

How it behaves on Win7.  Who knows, not had build in yonks.

As a heavy Outlook/OneNote / light Excel user here's my thoughts:

Liking EAS support in Outlook (so long Hotmail Connector).  Losing push, and decent performance was the main trade-offs when I moved my SBS2003 account over to Hotmail.  Hopefully this will be better, although performance seems to be off 2010 levels at the moment.

ClearType looks broken in Outlook - probably down to IE not supporting/using ClearType on Windows 8.  If one thing gets sorted, I want it to be this.  I don't care about losing ClearType in Metro, but I bad-looking text in the desktop mode is starting to do my head in.

Don't like that the To-do view calendar mode only shows today's appointments...  How about showing the next couple regardless of what day it is like 2010 did.

Had to squash the big menu down the bottom, as it looked silly, luckily only took about 30 seconds to figure out how.

OneNote is OK...  I don't like how I can't seem to have notebooks listed vertically down the side, now they're just horizontally listed, or minimized.

First thing my other half said when she saw it was I don't like (pointing at all-caps tabs).  Same thing we saw back with Visual Studio - some people might not get on with it.  I'm coping.

So lots of niggles at the moment.  But I haven't gone back to 2010 yet!!!

Haven't seen it since however.

Core 2 Quad, Radeon 5770.
Core 2 Duo, Radeon something or other
Core 1 Solo, Intel something or other

A lot of people seem to be having issues with nVidia (not surprised).

Remember it?  I've got one.  And its' running Windows 8.   Came with Windows XP, replaced with Windows Vista, replaced with Windows 7.  It's the machine that refuses to die.  Don't know if I'll spend the money putting Windows 8 on it when it comes out, as the plan is to buy a replacement.

In my opinion the reason the Tablet PC didn't take off when it did was due to price.  My Toshiba M200 was a good £1500 and my Motion LE1700 was about the same.  Three times more than the junk laptops floating about at the time.

But I'm trying to think of the last time I used a DVD or Blu-ray (yes I have a Blu-ray drive, seemed a good idea at the time I guess) in my computer.

Two, maybe three years?

Thinking about it, I'm not surprised, might as well cut the costs, as long as its passed along to the consumer of course.

I'd guess we'll see Microsoft pushing Kinect more maybe this holiday if the price comes down.  Still talking £250 for an Xbox and Kinect.  Not cheap if you don't have an Xbox already.

Then we'll see an improved version for the next generation Xbox in a couple of years.  A few simple changes like USB 3.0 would help massively.

In comparison I was full time with Windows Vista (can't remember what build, but early) and Windows 7 (first public release).

No, no Skype support yet.  But it is on its way.

I love my Windows Phone, I come from a Windows Mobile and Android background.  Loose a lot of the tinkering, but maybe in my old age I can't be bothered faffing about.

HTC HD7 here, I've been buying HTC's since the SPV C500 (at least what Orange called it).  HD7 is definitely cheaper made than the HD2.  But it's still fairly solid, after a year the chrome finish on the buttons have started to wear through, but its still working alright.

My old man has the LG Optimus 7, apart from getting a faulty one, that took em weeks to get fixed it works alright, but obviously looks a bit chunky but it is solid and the battery life is better than the HD7.

Few work colleagues have the other HTC phone, Trophy I think and that seems alright too.

Access to different international clocks, a few mouse clicks.  Knowing when Build is on, priceless.

Oh now I see where you're coming from.  Profit hey, how about you know, helping people first.

Science by concensus

Science does neither

I think you're missing the point.  I'm not saying point A is true because there's a consensus of scientific opinion.  I'm saying there's a consensus of scientific opinion because point A is probably true.  The evidence builds a consensus of scientific opinion, not the other way around.  That's exactly how science works.

And there is a consensus, an overwhelming one at that.  One that's been getting stronger over the last 30 years.  Out of the couple thousand of papers published in the last 20 years on the subject you'd be lucky to find a dozen that disagree with the consensus opinion.