Whoops...meant @77...not @71. *blush*

@71 - Wrong.

Domestic abuse is *never* a private family matter. In most states, the police do not give the abused spouse the option of not pressing charges. The accused abuser is almost always removed from the home immediately until the issue is resolved/investigated. Experience has shown that such policies are extremely wise...and help the abused spouse in many ways...not the least of which is safeguarding them from a potentially dangerous situation in the immediate term when they are also most likely very emotionally compromised.

The details of potential marital infidelity are private...but assault and battery are not. As a society, we watch over the state that we empower with law enforcement and judicial powers...and we need to do so here as well to ensure that double standards are not applied.

Spousal abuse is spousal abuse. In fact, any battery is and should be a crime...domestic or otherwise...and the gender should not matter.

Did he cheat? Who knows...and I don't care. Frankly, it doesn't matter in this situation. Either way, there is no justification for attacking a person physically in response to an action and/or comment of which you do not approve...unless you are acting in self defense or defense of another.

If one is to believe the reports here and elsewhere, she attacked him and then chased him with a golf club - an implement that could easily be considered to be a deadly weapon...especially when one considers that her alleged earlier attack was to his face. In such an attack, she could have easily killed him.

Instead, she is reported to have attacked a moving vehicle...only because he ran away apparently...but this attack translates into interfering with the operation of a motor vehicle, which also appears to have precipitated a crash - a crash that may have injured him severely...and could have killed him...or an innocent bystander.

In most states, the police do not allow an abused spouse the option of *not* pressing charges...and they *certainly* don't allow an alleged abuser to turn away investigating officers at the front door of the residence.

We need a zero tolerance approach toward such abuse...and frankly, I find the "go girl" comments here to be disgusting.

The police need to stop walking on egg shells here and start investigating the domestic assault that may have occurred here. While many might enjoy the titillation of this event, we have no right to know the personal details of their marriage. That said, we do have an obligation as a society to ensure that citizens are protected and that the rich and famous do not enjoy a double legal standard.

If this was an episode of Cops, she would be in jail while they investigated the issue...and that's whee she should probably be until this issue is resolved.

Your comment would rebuff me if I was not typing this response on a wireless keyboard from my couch looking at a 46" Samsung being driven by a $300 Atom 330 Ion-based Acer nettop.

DRM video? Not a problem...it runs Windows 7 Home 64 bit.

Yeah, folks are building things. ;)

Perfection is the enemy of "good enough." While they screw around with this, the rest of the industry leaps forward...and Android-based tablets are on the horizon.

What other tablet can you get for $400 today? Well, fair question...but you can't get this thing either right now. Also, keep in mind that this thing is not a general purpose tablet. It is a browser with no access to the shell OS and questionable support for documents. It will view web pages and do Flash. Many requests for document support (e.g., PDF, open office) have gone unanswered. Okay, great, it's still a nice tablet for surfing and watching Hulu...but without a decent GPU and Flash 10.1, that will be very jittery Hulu.

With such limited function, this thing was attractive at the initial $200 estimate...which then went to $300...and is now at $300-$400...which almost certainly means $400 or up.

I was waiting for this for some time...and then got tired of waiting without any info...so I bought a netbook for $300. I then bought an Ion-based Acer AspireRevo (Atom 330) for the living room for another $300. Both are full-purpose devices. I can view the web...*and* docs...*and* watch 1080 video...*and* do anything else that I want.

Yes, it looked great on paper...and then the prototypes looked fantastic...but ever increasing price, limited functionality, and no general purpose apps beyond browsing? Yeah, okay, thanks but no...I'll probably be able to get an Android-based tablet for the same price by the time this thing sees the light of day (if ever)...and it will be far more functional.

Of course, if this vapor ever condenses, I might change my mind after some hands-on reviews...but it's vapor now, has been for over a year, and the "news" (aka, marketing) itself indicates that this must be a slow news day. What, no news about Art Lebedev redesigning a clothes pin?

That approach is more than three times the cost of buying Win 7 Home Premium from Digital River...and it isn't a good option at all for those of us who want Win 7 Professional. The price of OEM for Win 7 Pro is $150...five times the cost from Digital River. Also, the OEM versions are not transferable between computers.

I cannot imagine why someone who is entitled to the deal from Digital River would not either take the 5 minutes to read the instructions on how to create an ISO from their downloaded files or just make a copy of someone else's Win 7 DVD/ISO and use the license key Digital River sent them...unless of course price is no issue. That said, if price is no issue, then the OEM approach is still a bad idea since I am not aware of any source from which you can buy the OEM version and download immediately. Heck, if price is no option, go to the MS online store and buy Win 7 Ultimate and download right now.

Yeah, not good advice IMHO.

Here's my advice - if you are not entitled to the student deal, screw the OEM version. Buy the the Win 7 Home Premium Family Pack for $40 more than the cost of a single OEM license. For $140, you will get 3 Home Premium upgrade licenses that are transferable. If you only need one license, you can easily sell the other two online for $50 each...and end up with a transferable Win 7 Home Premium license for 40 beans. In fact, SAMS Club is selling it for $124.46 and claims that it is available for pick up locally for me today....so that brings the cost of a Home Premium upgrade to $25 if you eBay the other two licenses.

$0.02

I had the same issue with this download...and it appears to most likely be Digital River's fault.

Had they made ISOs available to create bootable CDs, folks wouldn't have issues...assuming that they knew what to do with an ISO...which is a big assumption for many folks. Not everyone surfs tech sites all day. Thus, it appears Digital River and/or MS decided to provide an easier to use installer. You download it, run it, and life is good.

Unfortunately, that all goes boom if you decided to get a 64 bit upgrade and are trying to run it on a 32 bit OS....which, as it turns out, is a fairly common event from what I have seen on various forums. Looks like lots of folks decided to upgrade from 32 bit to 64 bit at this point...and that's why I say that this is Digital River's fault.

Digital River should have made the situation clear on their purchase pages. A simple statement that said "You cannot use the 64 bit download on a 32 bit version of Windows XP or Vista...and if you don't know whether your current OS is 32 or 64 bit, it's probably 32...but here's how to check..." would have done wonders. They could have also stated that folks wishing to upgrade from 32 bit to 64 bit should order the physical media (for $13 more). Adding to their failure, once you figure all of this out, you cannot go back in to their site and just order the media. If you didn't order the media when you made your original purchase, you are screwed. The only way to then order it from Digital River is to get another edu email address and then buy an *entirely* new license with the media as an extra option...for a total of over $40 more dollars...instead of $13 more for the media.

They need an installer that detects the situation and then, upon detection, prompts the user to stick in a RW DVD...and then have the installer create the ISO and burn it....or, at the very least, just create the ISO...with instructions on how to burn it using third-party software.

Folks have been freaking out about the issue all day on various sites, including sevenforums.com, and I really expected that MS would get on top of the issue ASAP and just let Digital River post ISOs before the press became aware of the issue. The press killed Vista and could also hurt Win 7 quite badly...and I am shocked that MS isn't responding to this issue with SWAT teams.

That said, I followed the instructions available in many locations (including sevenforums.com) and was able to create the ISO fairly easily, burn it on to a DVD, and then boot from it...but I am not an average user.

Regardless of whether or not it is a mistake, I am somewhat disturbed how easy it must be to share the messages...most likely inadvertently, which appears to be the case given the nature of some of these messages.

BTW, these messages confirm what I have suspected for some time after reviewing my google voice mail transcriptions - google voice is the new Newton.

"Hi Steve. We have lunch scheduled with xxx on Wednesday. Will you be attending?"

Google SMS to me:

"Hi thief. We have lurch said you yelled with xxx on when day. Well you be pretending?"

Sweet. What a time saver! :)

Wow...fast action. You people have restored my faith in humanity. :)

cheers,
Steve

Why the heck is this comment rated low? It's someone's opinion and one with which many agree...including me. Is it because the comment mentions a feature that a Mac lacks and that they wish it had? Is that what mac Fanbois have become? Something akin to the red baiters during McCarthyism? Seriously, that is sad...and the OP's comment was valid.