No, the last truly revolutionary version of Windows was 5.1, aka Windows XP. That was the version where they finally took the useless Windows 95 / 98 / 98 SE / ME kernel out behind the barn and blew its freaking head off with the howitzer it deserved in 1995!

Rubio has ruled out the VP race. Assuming it *is* Romney, which is by no means assured once actual votes and actual delegate numbers start to get counted, it's much more likely to be Perry or Santorum, simply because they bring big vote-rich states to the table. If Perry takes a single primary away from Romney, even if Romney does end up with the prize, that's a lot more votes than Rubio got. ;-) Obama/Clinton? God, I hope not! I hope she makes good on her threat not to stay at State or run as VP.

"Californians can easily move and seek jobs elsewhere in the U.S." True, but they can't always *find* those jobs from California, and if they're unemployed, they are less likely to be considered. There are no legal restrictions, to be sure, but there are pragmatic ones.

"Politics is about compromise. It's not about winning 100%, or even 75%; it's about winning 51%." That's nice, but in the Senate it seems like you need to win 60%. And now that the Senate has gotten income inequality statistics out of the CBO to muddy the waters (http://meb.tw/tkElpI), now, instead of the debate being on lines of pragmatic economics, it conjures up images of Occupy Wall Street's "99%". I'm an independent. If you want to tie a label on me, you can call me an Obama Republican or a Huntsman Democrat. As an independent, I think of our elected officials as neither servants nor masters but *colleagues*. I expect them not only to *listen* to us but to *explain* to us exactly what they are doing and why. It *isn't* a poker game or a Kabuki dance.

"FDR knew that the only way to get things done was to get elected to the office, and the only way to get elected is to appeal to as many people as possible." So, assume Barack Obama follows this. How does he appeal to more people than Bachmann, Perry, Romney, Hunstman or some combination of them? Is there a *single* Republican who will support Obama for re-election? Will *every* Democrat? I think not. The problem I have with President Obama is that he seems to have lost sight of what made FDR, JFK and Reagan "great communicators" - they took their case to the *people* first, *then* to Congress and the courts. The upcoming jobs speech to the House and Senate is a classic example. Reagan would have consulted with labor leaders, business leasers and economists, put together a plan and then gone on national television with a carefully written *brief* outline and asked for peoples' support. Obama waits until he gets the inevitable pushback from Congress and *then* goes to the people. It's too late then. He hasn't done his homework, his pre-selling.

"He came in during the worst circumstances in the history of the United States" Well, somehow I think the Civil War was a lot worse than the Great Depression, but having lived through neither I'm hardly an expert. ;-)

Elevator pitches are an ancient ritual that has no place in today's environment. They're a waste of creative energy, and, for that matter, the precious time of both the pitcher and the pitchee. I rarely ask a question for which an elevator pitch is an appropriate answer, and nobody I know asks such questions either.

I'm not sure if you saw this - it showed up on Reuters but I haven't seen any other reference to it: Is There a Bubble in LinkedIn's Stock Price?http://meb.tw/loYBD3 [pdf] "It has been well documented in the financial press that a methodology is needed that can identify an asset price bubble in real time. William Dudley, the President of the New York Federal Reserve, in an interview with Planet Money [3] stated '...what I am proposing is that we try to identify bubbles in real time, try to develop tools to address those bubbles, try to use those tools when appropriate to limit the size of those bubbles and, therefore, try to limit the damage when those bubbles burst.' "It is also widely recognized that this is not an easy task. Indeed, in 2009 the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said in Congressional Testimony [1] 'It is extraordinarily difficult in real time to know if an asset price is appropriate or not'."

Ayup ... and where is the Republican National Committee? Haven't they offered him first crack at the nomination yet? Why not? It's not like Sarah Palin could take it away from him. ;-)

There's no mystery here. Corporations simply adjust their head counts on the basis of revenues and non-payroll expenses in order to meet financial ratio targets. Revenues drop, employees get deleted from the payroll until the sales per employee ratio meets the target value. And there was a huge spike in energy prices here in the USA in 2008, right around the time the employment started to drop precipitously. Fuel costs rise - to balance out the energy cost increase, workers are deleted from the payroll. Fuel costs rise, automobile sales plummet - auto workers are laid off. There's no mystery here - you're simply not looking at all the time series or taking into account the feedback loops by which corporations are managed. Was there a huge spike in energy prices in the other G7 nations in 2008, or was the USA the only one hit?

Well, my blog / site is a lot smaller than yours, and I have put zero effort so far into SEO, but I get very little traffic from search. Most of my traffic comes from Twitter, Hacker News and DZone, with DZone being the biggest contributor. In any event, I do think you're right about the content farms and other "spam" clogging Google. It seems we need some kind of reverse Turing Test. A *person* can easily tell a chatbot from a human conversation partner, but can a few cubic miles of MapReduce engines? Well, unless you count sports reporting, that is. ;-) http://borasky-research.net/2010/12/30/sure-why-not-five-predictions-for-2011/

Well ... ReadWriteWeb is a refreshing exception - ignoring the obvious "is a blogger really a journalist" brouhaha, they do a pretty good job of covering enterprise technology.

"This does work. Every time." Well - since you're about debunking myths, how about some statistics, definitions, data, etc. for your "theory of management".