Hi folks,
A bit off topic, but there seems to be a bit of debate out there about what to do with a new laptop or netbook. For techies, the impulse is to unbox and get hands-on as quickly as possible. This impulse comes from deep within what Sigmund Freud identified as the Id, anatomically associated with the brain stem and the thalamus, the brain's primitive center of sex and aggression.
Here is an example of the appropriate emotions that technology nerds experience when they hear the...