Also, because we're really never that far ahead of toppling back centuries in our grasp of technology. A few weeks of massive power and infrastructure failure would drag large parts of humanity back centuries, and potientially allow new anti-tech warlords to take control. The average channel surfing prole wouldn't rise to the occasion. He'd be driven to the countryside in a global repeat of Pol Pot's 'drive to the countryside*'

  (* which was actually caused by the instantaneous halt of supplies from the US airlifted into the urban centers of Cambodia, where the former agrarian population had been driven by US bombing campaigns.)

Actually things have spun up. There are many more revolutions than in the past. Consider music recording: the norm used to be 33-1/3 revolutions per minute. With CDs it went beyond hundreds of RPM. Now, with hard disk technology, thousands of RPM.

It's all just spinning in place, yes, but let's be real: even the most earnest revolutionary, standing at the lit table, really is mainly aiming to get the pants off a few freshmen coeds.

Communists sought to monopolize and control typewriters, mimeograph machines, faxes, and photocopiers. More important than their need to control the means to production, they strove to have complete control over the means to communicate.

Apple has really good brand management. Their bullet points are always gleaming, to be certain.

Why, though, is there always the need for some to seemingly worship the brand? Could it be astroturf?

People who use terms like 'hater' are cult members. It's sort of creepy, be it scientologists, moonies, or followers of other cultish movements.

Get over it. Boogeyman 'samsung' isn't out to get your device, just like 'IBM' wasn't out to get your mac.

I think you mean to say 'the only reason Slashdot geeks buy Pis.' Schools buy them, or assign their students to buy one, for use in the classroom. It's a computer designed around education, not for geeks. The whole package includes not just a SBC with a barebones Linux image. It includes curriculum, and a community of educators who know how to teach using it.

Do they have a non-profit foundation behind them striving to make them the pedagogical computer of choice for educators? The Raspberry Pi foundation isn't "in business" to provide SBC geeks on Slashdot with a cheap module to use in their living room, you know. Their entire focus is on providing an affordable easy-to-use part for education. Look at their forum, look at the audience they are successfully reaching out to. It's kids, and educators.

Improvement? I guess if 'lower cost' is the only improvement.

Typo in above: The 8502 was a weaker clone.. should read: The 6502 was a weaker clone..

The 6502 isn't a Motorola part. The far superior part at the time was Motorola's 6802 part, the 8-bit predecessor of the 68000 chip that went into the first Macintosh, and one of the two premier 8-bit chips at the time (the other was the 8080/Z-80). The 8502 was a weaker clone of the 6802, but as stated, MOS Technology (the producer of the 6502) gave Woz a free sample, and the 6502 was far less expensive than Motorola or Intel's processor at the time.

It's really a shame that Motorola didn't work closer with Apple, because the world would be a better place if the inferior 6502 hadn't gotten promoted the way it was. The 680x processor, and it's I/O chip family ( the 6821 PIA, 6850 USART, 6845 CRT controller, etc) were the only part family at the time that was the equal of Intel's 808x processor and 82xx I/O chip family.)

The only thing MOS's 650x family had going was it was cheaper and more accessible to hobbyists.

Since the war crimes are fresher, and the same standing government in Pakistan still exists, it would more likely be Pakistan indicting Obama's cabinet members for war crimes.

It whips the Democrats into a frenzy? Indeed. It even stirs up some of the Republicans.

They need an issue beyond 'Incompetent President' to stir up voters. That elephant is in the room but it's boring to the public.

Definitely. Members of both parties will use her that way, without giving a crap who or what she is.

"They are not journalists" - they won a Pulitzer..

Obama won a Nobel.

That's right. The Empire State Building is Majestic, and Quaint and stuff. Like the Mac Pro.