I live in one of those states!

but guess what.... Adding capacity actually HELPS!!! 5 years ago the freeway was 3 lanes each way, now it's 5 lanes each way. It used to take me 1.5 hours to get home. Now it's 45 minutes... during rush hour.

In another 10 years, maybe it'll be up to 1.5 hours again, then we'll expand again...

It is cylical, however your theory falls flat because when it is upgraded, it does fix the problem. AND if it were not upgraded, my travel time would go to 2, 3 hours.

<quote>
Did you actually <i>think</i> about how <i>others</i> use the keys before you so cavalierly decided to banish a key? And why pick on insert delete when there is so much more low hanging fruit? Why not pick on F9-F12? Scroll lock?! Or the duplicated forward slashes or pipe key? Who uses tilde or grave!? And I guess we couldn't get rid of one set or the other of the windows keys?
  </quote>

whoa whoa whoa .... leave my home reference (tilde) and inline execution (grave) key alone!!!! or there will be blood. =)

I have to agree. USB, although shorter, provides power. This is huge.

From my understanding Light Peak Does not. This excludes a whole range of items from using it: thumb drives, keyboards, mice....

Power on the cable is important. We even add it to networking (POE). We already have the same speed in networking, and USB 3.0 speed is nothing to sneeze at.

Unless Light Peak provides/adds power in the spec, I think it's doomed to fail (or just become the next firewire as parent said.)
Although I could see a composite cable, fiber for signaling, copper for power. Maybe USB 4.0 or Light Peak 2.0? ;)

They are not that expensive when there are tons of failed bank auctions around, a couple hundred will get you one. (You must remove though)

The Internet ... built by and ran by Drunk monkeys....

Ok, some of us are not drunk.... all the time.

i think it's news only because most people think that the early termination fee is total BS.

I understand that they are recouping the full cost of the phone, but a 2 year lockin/early term fee is excessive and just a way to lock a person into a certain carrier.

IMHO, vendor lock-in only exists when your company sucks and you are afraid of your customers leaving (like a little program called ms office.)

Oh well, guess I'm done ranting. (And yes I am locked in to a cell plan... doesn't mean I like it.)

I see one problem with your Rant. You assume NO UPDATES!

So that means that Windows XP without any Service packs.

This is where things fall apart since I have been running systems with linux for 9 years, applying the service packs and upgrades. And I have a fully functional system that has never been wiped and reinstalled.

So the next question is what is a service pack and what is a full version?
Windows: Service pack = free, New version = pay me
Linux: Service Pack = new version (for most distros)

The whole not having to pay each time you get a new major version number makes a difference I guess.

The thing is that if you try and take the stance that service packs do not remove functionality, then you forget all the issues we've had with SP2 (and a few with SP3)

I don't really have a 1 to 1 comparison since they are structured differently.
If you do assume NO UPDATES then in windows, most hardware does not work on bare winXP eaither. (Most requires at least SP1 most are SP2)

Yup!

But you have to admit, it looks pretty darn cool.

PC LOAD HUMAN? What the fuck does that mean?

hahaha. I'm here all week.

I completely agree, it's not "groundbreaking" but honestly as someone developing a linux based embedded device, I'm glad to see someone doing it today with "modern" systems.

I have to agree with the parent. I had used VMWare server for a few years and had always had strange issues crop up.... Ease of use really sucked when they went to the web interface (although it was a great Idea, it just didn't always work.) USB support in vmware was barely usable (sometimes the vm would just lock up.)

I moved over to virtualbox and everything just seems to work. Dead simple install and use.

It already exists, it's called ZFS on solaris boxxen. Each block uses ECC, it can correct itself on each read, and generally can indicate a failing disk. This truly is the filesystem every other one is playing catchup with.