What if their child gets indoctrinated into homosexual lifestyle?

Yeah, that's really not how it works...

discharges into lakes and streams

You might want to get that checked out...

...and have no control over volume or what track you're listening to. That's a pretty stunning lack of functionality.

Do you really think that Apple isn't up to the task of adding a 4th, 5th, 6th in a reasonably short period of time?

Of course they could do it, it's just that offering an existing product (OS X for x86) is not the same as offering the more-costly option of porting it to another platform. There's no reason to believe that Jobs' offer would have implied that they were willing to spend the engineering dollars required to port OS X to whatever platform OLPC decides to use.

The GP said that Apple had offered to license OS X to OLPC for their x86 machine. That's a far cry from actually putting in the time, effort, and money required to port it to another platform. It's not that Apple couldn't do it, it's that it's not a trivial or free process. Putting OS X on an x86 OLPC would basically only require writing drivers for any non-supported hardware. Putting some version of OS X or the iPhone OS on an ARM-based OLPC would take a lot more work.

This isn't Mac vs. Windows, it's off-the-shelf vs. custom software. I don't care what they put on the OLPC, it's just disingenuous to pretend that an off-the-shelf solution already exists, whether it's Apple or Microsoft.

Since it is a well-known fact that Apple has had OS X working on an ARM architecture in the iPhone and iPod Touch for nearly 2 years now, it would seem a no-brainer at this point for OLPC to take Apple up on their offer.

OS X doesn't run on ARM any more than Windows XP does. The OS on the iPhone may share code or features with the desktop version, but it's not the same OS, and it's highly tailored to the iPhone hardware. Adapting it to work on an OLPC wouldn't be the same task as installing OS X on an x86 computer.

The problem with wikipedia isn't a lack of experts, it's a preponderance of self-appointed "experts." The place is crawling with people whose only qualification is having way too much time on their hands. The whole hierarchy of wikipedia seems to be populated with people like this.

It must suck trying to piss with someone whispering into your wrist!

I think it sucks more for the whisperer...

Why is it so hard to understand that someone could have both received an MMR vaccine and been diagnosed with autism without there being any relation between the two? Most people with autism have had an MMR vaccine, just as most people without autism have had an MMR vaccine.

Where is the supposed plausible evidence?

Amish men have beards, and no known cases of HIV. I also have a beard, and therefore am immune to HIV.

Honestly, it's different in every person. Those who may be built better might not have any issues with the vaccine. Those with weaker immune systems may have issues manifested later in life.

So how long should we wait before mass vaccinations? Until the first test group has died of natural causes?

MMR has been around for something like 40 years. I think we have a pretty good set of data on it.

I was also thinking small wind turbines where the front grill is. Don't know crap about electricity, but i figure you could supplement your battery charging pretty well when you are traveling 60mph. The small fans would be turning extremely fast.

...and creating more drag. There's only so much waste energy you can harvest before you hit a wall.

Yeah, the thought of that happening is pretty much the only thing keeping me from putting my house in orbit.

If you need a Windows driver for a piece of hardware, you can usually go directly to the manufacturer's website, download the driver you need (with some exceptions, of course; the 64-bit version of XP had pretty much no driver support), and run the install package. With Linux, you generally end up spending an hour googling things until you find the right unofficial support forum, and follow a somewhat convoluted process that may or may not actually result with a working driver.

It's not just about whether or not your OS can automatically recognize your hardware, it's about whether or not you can easily find drivers when your hardware isn't recognized.

My example above was not fictional. The Windows install was seriously complicated by the fact that my CD (XP with SP3 slipstreamed in) did not recognize the SATA hardware and the system did not have a floppy drive installed (or even space for a floppy drive). This was not bleeding-edge hardware.

Speaking of useless anecdotes... I tried to install Ubuntu on an old PC a year or two ago and failed because the install CD wasn't able to boot off of a SATA optical drive. XP installed just fine.