Great, now Oracle can slice off the good bits and push the rest of the corpse into the bay where it can slump among the rusted JavaStations and corpses of former SGI employees as a reminder[1] that the chewbacca defense is not an effective business strategy.

1. http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/sunstrategy2x.gif

Aha another Yashicamat owner :) ...and this with a camera whose design is easily 50 years old (twin lens reflex). I've owned mine since 1986, and it still takes amazing pictures.

You are confusing Kodachrome (chome == transparency in Kodak) with Kodacolor. Kodachrome was indeed the film of choice for many baby boomer slideshows. Before Ektachrome came along it was the only choice. It was also used for home movies. For instance the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination was shot in Kodachrome.

While there is no question that some great technical discoveries and inventions have come out of the space program, it's an open question whether funding NASA is a good way to use the limited amount of money our country is willing to spend on basic science and technology research. We aren't in a space race with the Russians anymore, and astronauts are not longer rockstars who get ticker tape parades when they return safely to earth. These days NASA has to compete at the trough for public funding like everyone else. Them's the breaks. Our country has lived beyond its means for decades. Instead of going to space the challenge the next generation will be faced with is cleaning up all the financial and environmental messes our generation and previous generations created.

Can you buy a netbook with OS X on it? How about a thin and light laptop with an excellent keyboard, or an expandable desktop that doesn't cost at last $2.4k.

OS X is a great operating system, but it also locks you in to Apple's very limited choices for hardware.

That's great, but unfortunately the following doesn't work, and it's what many users seems to think they want

apt-get install MSOffice Photoshop WorldOfWarcraft

Even something like Google Earth for Linux can't be "apt-gotten," unless that has changed in the past few months.

Don't get me wrong, it's a fun game, but I'm not an undergraduate in college anymore, and after spending 8+ hours at work sitting on my butt in front of a computer, coming home and sitting on my butt for 4 more hours for a Nax raid or whatever doesn't sound like fun. It just seems like such a waste of time. Gah, I must have grown up a little when I wasn't looking :)

Well, at least it's not snack time :D

*waits for confirmation from Netcraft*