Huh? I'd say THE choice for realtime embedded operating systems is probably vxWorks.

Look up "proxy", you simpering halfwits.

Not as bizzaro as Bizarro Stormy, mind you.

Indeed. When someone manages to get something like this past, say, Computational Linguistics, then we'll have something newsworthy. This is akin to announcing "House without door has lock picked!"

Back in the real world, we call people who cherry pick time ranges to get the answer they want liars.

Deal with the science, and quit repeating the lies of others. They are dishonest, you are merely a fucking retard.

And a few paid shills like Frank Spencer. Not that he has ever actually published these apparently devastating critiques of AGW in any peer reviewed journal.

Yup, that's where I'm going. Building a database server and it's going on FreeBSD. I was a loyal Debian user up until this fiasco.

The only difference in opinion appears to be over the effectiveness of these "interrogation techniques" (boy, there's a euphemism Torquemada could have used).

He burned it in real good...

Exchange always was a bloated monster, but it's quite ridiculous now. Our Exchange 2010 install which I did last year will be our last one.

I've never run up against it. I activated about two dozen copies of education-licensed versions of Office 2007 a few years ago, and the auto-activation failed after the first install. After that, I had to call a 1-800 number, give an automated service the installation key and it barfed out an activation key... over and over again.

Yup. I've seen more than my fair share of people with computers stuffed to the socks. "So you say this laptop loaded with Windows 7 Ultimate, MS-Office Pro and Photoshop only cost you $300. Hmmm..."

I'd say Frank Herbert did. The Dune series laysa out a culture wildly different in key respects from ours. Even the march of technological innovation we are so used to has been arrested and certain humans (Guild navigators, Bene Gesseret, Mentats) have taken on the roles of "thinking machines." But then again Herbert did put a lot of work into background; history, philosophy, ecology, economics and politics.

Whatever the merits of the .NET API, the fact is that if you want maximum number of platforms, even after this project reaches fruition, supported platforms will still be a fraction of Java's.

Java has no lack of flaws, but it's out there and has been for fifteen years now, and is the bedrock of some very large open source and proprietary solutions.

And the Creationists come out of the wood work.