I think he is referring to a hinge. This allow the screen to be angled and not be on a flat surface, like your lap which is currently the biggest concern with the Windows Surface tablet that I've seen. Although that isn't the only concern, you have to have some weight behind the base otherwise it will be top heavy and tip over.

So yes, there is a difference and that Kensington looks like a terrible solution for the problem.

Package managers are not a silver bullet, because it still requires a diligent maintainer. There are plenty of software packages for the various distros, which are older versions. Running the update mechanism won't fix that.

OSX still sucks at swapping. Inactive memory sounds like a good idea, but you should never swap it, hence why my late 2009 macbook has 2Gb ram but can end up being slow even after closing Firefox to reclaim some memory.

Personally, I think the worst thing it not that it was worse than other systems 10 years ago, but they were still trying to sell it 2 years ago. I hated that keyboard that even with a stylus was too small.

I like unity too. But then I'm one of the minority who doesn't see what all the fuss over Gnome 2 was. I used it, but I knew it was ugly and did everything in a piss poor manner and spent time trying to find an alternative. I personally find the autohide on the dock works great, pulling icons off works easily enough and don't really care that it sticks to the left side. I guess I'm not power user enough to demand that the dock goes on the bottom.

Seriously, I doubt I am the only one just seeing people saying "Waa waa, I don't like change", and a couple of people saying their hardware doesn't work with it. I run it on several laptops and desktops and haven't come across any issues, so I wouldn't be surprised if the devs hadn't seen any of these issues people talk about because I know I haven't. And yes I am using old hardware in the mix, single core Sempron 140 with an onboard geforce chip and it works fine.

Where can I get Office for Solaris?

Why not? Chromes original reasons for existing was to make web browsing better, and they offered it open source for Firefox and Safari to adopt.

http://cue.yellowmagic.info/softwares/separate-plus/index.html

That doesn't make sense, if he is a communist then wouldn't there be an option to nationalise the music industry? No? Then he may not be as much of a "communist", I think you meant to say he was a wannabe American.

Or perhaps it was a varient on dry whit. Running in Safari, or running from a shortcut to a webpage (which would run run in Safari) would be no different than running an app.