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I found this over at Digg.com. Jeff Atwood has provided more detail than you could ever imagine on this problem: To be perfectly clear, this isn't a Windows problem-- it's an x86 hardware problem. The memory hole is quite literally invisible to the CPU, no matter what 32-bit operating system you choose. Jeff does a great job with charts and everything to explain why your Windows desktop will only see 3 GBs or so of RAM. Definitely worth a read if you have ever wondered about this question...
If so, you should go read this eWeek article by Jim Rapoza. In it, he talks about Tim Berners-Lee talking to Congress and how what Tim had to say really made him realize his stand on Net Neutrality: What if the Internet wasn't designed the way it was? What if it worked more like cell phone or satellite TV networks do here in the United States? Hey, I hear there's this great search engine called Google that supposedly works really well and offers all kinds of cool online apps. Problem is, you have...