Oh please. Back here in the real world NO ONE CARES for your pedantry.

OMG. I know. Don't care. Not really relevant. Go play kick ball or whatever you do...

You're not even making any sense. People were arrested for using phones in the least intrusive manner possible? Anyway, "airplane mode" is still useful. Probably should be called "non-emission mode" or something though. Like if your at a boring lecture and want to play "wild, wild weasels" during.

Funny, I have no reason to trust the Gov. with it either, now.

Ok, well, that's a tale of a different sort...

You sound like one of my wiccan girl friends (I was some how gifted with three without really trying). Boring. If there were a higher power it should be noted that it left the building millenia ago. Halloween, great if your a kid. A waste of time if your an adult with an ounce of brains.

I employed a double entendre as well; the lowest form of humor.

Sure, cherry pick an obscure use case with old Atmel hardware. I think I'm ok with the arm stuff for now.

I'm in a real quandry here with the whole windows 8 thing; as a programmer I have no use for a touch screen so windows 8 is absolutely useless to me. On the other hand Microsoft used to get castigated for not innovating. So is the touch screen not the interface of the future, or did Microsoft simply blow it? I'm no fan, but the deal kind of smells like "damned if you do, damned if you don't."

I don't think so. The gcc & it's toolchain, and the arm cross-compiler, are indispensable where I'm at. The current licensing is little more than an annoyance right now.

When you sell off two successful companies you can take all that money and burn it if you like. Rothberg chose his route.

But that is the root of the problem.

Oh really? And how many Macs did Dell make for Apple? Oh, that's right, they made PCs.

The ceo doesn't have to say anything, any probe of him by any agency will be met by a phalanx of lawyers court with orders to leave him alone and instructions to question underlings and minions. The only time ceos and other top dogs have to face the music is in front of senate subcommittees, and that's rare enough.

Villifying a dead man, nice. Look, I respect you, and I agree with what you say, most of the time, but now that man is dead, and all the grousing about him now is wankerism to an extreme degree, sigifying nothing. And I'm no Apple fan boy, trust me. But it took Jobs to get pc's in consumers hands, and there's no complaints against the man you can make to change that. Give the man that legacy.