I didn't say they wouldn't be on top, but they aren't going to be a growth stock as they have in the past. Additionally, if you think Apple will be immune from the anti-trust problems that you saw with Microsoft, I think you will be surprised in the coming years. It gets hot under the spotlight and with the way they are pushing the lawsuits around it is quite obvious that they are transitioning their posture to defend their share as opposed to growing it.

Issac Newton knew a thing or two about apples. What goes up must come down.

I will accept your answer, though in all likelihood they won't get along.

I remember booting it up and thinking to myself "Neat! ......Now what?" and then going back to playing Gunship or Roadwar 2000.

Why would you want to clone a spose/Significant other? It's hard enough keeping one of them happy.

Yeah, find me a language that doesn't allow for sloppy coding and I will show you a language that no one uses.

Perl gets a bad rap because you can, if you are so inclined, write horribly useful, exceptionally terse and completely unintelligible code with it. That has historically been one of true beauties of the language. "There is more than one way to do it" is the axiom of the Perl programmer and learning different ways to do things helps with the fundamental understanding of what the interpreter is doing to get the computer to accomplish the task you want to accomplish.

What makes Perl a good learning language may not necessarily be a good business case for its use, but I have seem plenty of well written Perl in my time, and I am sure that I will see a lot more.

I have started substituting the phrase " The Fog" for "The Cloud". It's starting to get kind of thick.

Did you push up your glasses when you typed that?

If I don't recognize Missouri as a state, I sure as heck don't have to count OSX as a Unix.

Red Hat != Linux || Free != !(Money)

time == money

free != not(money)

I assume you are trolling, but I will indulge you.

Linux != cheap. Linux == Free.

As a Unix guy I think OSX is a lot like Unix in the following ways.

* It is over priced for what it does.
* Support is generally good if you pay for it, though it is not inexpensive.
* It is generally picky about what sort of hard it runs on. Often you don't upgrade a machine, you buy a new one.
* The people who are proponent of it will seriously not STFU about it.

Seriously, go look at a prison and then look around you.If it truly resembles that, then go some where else cause where you are is no good. Don't take that as "Leave America" jingoism. It is okay to be pissed off at the world as there is a lot to be pissed off at, but you don't have to make it out to be worse than it is to make your point.

And I would say that you are prone to hyperbole as well. You are devaluing the barbarism of the past to speak of indignities today. You do us a disservice from how far we have come, even if we still have a long way to go.

"The deputy was holding a warrant to arrest Mr. Stearns for not paying $4,024.88 owed to a unit of American International Group Inc."

Wrong, the warrant was issued for not showing up to a court hearing as it says in earlier in the paragraph. This sentence is journalistic embellishment.

"Emmie Nichols, 26 years old, was arrested in June at her mother's house after lawyers for Capital One Financial Corp. won an arrest warrant against her for skipping a court hearing about $1,159.87 she owed on a credit card from the company."

Being arrested for skipping court dates != being put in jail because you didn't pay your debts. I am sure that there is fraud in the system, don't get me wrong but this sort of journalism feeds hysteria. Hysteria is the enemy of reason.

The real story here is not that students are getting denied their transcripts because they haven't paid their loans, it's that these companies are able to make these risky loans that are guaranteed by our (the USofA) government. The housing bubble happened for the same reason, and and this bubble is bigger and has very little real value to reclaim.

This will continue to happen until the finance people say things like "sorry, I am not going to finance your history degree to the tune of $80,000 as I don't think you will ever be able to pay it all back".

'It's worse than indentured servitude,' said NYU Professor Andrew Ross who completed his post doctorate work in Hyperbole at the University of Bologna.

Seriously, show me the debtors prisons..