I'm so glad to see your comment "not every human is equally adept in recognizing images". I thought it might just be me: for years I've been inadvertently clicking on the print icon instead of the save icon. To my mind, they are generally rectangular and similar colours; unless I stop and think about it for a second there's a 50% chance I'll hit the wrong one. Recently, I made the mistake of putting bookmark icons for Gmail and BBC iPlayer next to each other and removing the text. Both icons are reddish and have triangular bits.
Although I much prefer text based interfaces, I appreciate that some people have problems distinguishing words. A good UI needs to give people the choice.
You mean the same US government that has accumulated a $14.5 trillion debt? Surely no organisation on the planet has ever been so poor!
Joking aside, I think you're probably right; Apple will drop OSX as soon as they possibly can. I don't think they should, though.
Huh?! I've been with Virgin broadband for years, currently on the 20Mb service - I stream music and surf the web all day long, watch hours of BBC iPlayer in the evening, plus can download gigabytes of software. I have never been throttled. The last time I checked, I can download 10.5Gb per day (and it's completely unlimited at night). I suggest you have a word with whoever is sending you such big emails!
You wouldn't trust an automatically controlled boat today, in 2011, on the basis that a partly automatically controlled boat sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912?
A robotic bus just might be safer than a human driver if all the other vehicles are driven by robots. All vehicles could then communicate with each other wirelessly, making traffic signals unnecessary - although I guess it would be useful for pedestrians to know when it is safe to cross. The only thing that robots might have a problem with then are unforeseen circumstances like dry ice, grit, children playing... I suspect that robots can probably already react more quickly to such events than humans.
Real Programmers don't write in FORTRAN. FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies. FORTRAN is for wimp engineers who wear white socks.