"Health wise - no arguments (guessed - not the result of rigorous studies). Productivity is the main thing."
I totally agree. As far as a walk here the issue is that is freaking hot! I live in South Florida so we are talking 32.2 c and 80% humidity. Now in winter it is nice.
I still like my drink at my desk. Keyboards are cheap.

I agree with the outside area we have covered walks around the outside and a koi pond in the center courtyard. I try to take a short walk once a day.
The no drinking or eating? Okay with the no eating but no drinking is not cool. I like my cup of Mate handy while I work. Yes a walk can be a big help.

Yes but they still suck.
Low contrast displays suck. Grey on Grey? Really?
A UI should be easy to use first and look good second. Ello is a good example of the reverse. We should think of older folks as canaries in the coal mine. They are more sensitive to bad UI design than someone like me. Heck I use Vi, I think Windows 7, KDE, GNOME, Unity, and OS/X are all easy to use so I am not a good test subject for UIs but all the things they mentioned are things that tick me off.
The other thing young people have to remember is that someone that is 70 may only have 5 to 30 good years left. A 20 year old has 60 to 80 good years left. Learning the latest cool thing may not be worth the time for them.

Sorry I replied to myself in error.
I have seen some drafting stools that are really just tall desk chairs.
For example this one
http://www.lexmod.com/p-15349-....
I wish I had bought one of the old 1960s style drafting desks from my high school when they replaced them.
Solid Ash and with a built in light fixture.

They actually make some drafting stools that are really just tall office chairs.
Here is the first one I found http://www.lexmod.com/p-15349-...
I am sure that you can find a lot more.

I think that the adjustable standing desks are on over complicated solution to the problem.
Use fixed standing desk with a drafting stool.

Wow that makes you sound like a reasonable person and not a crack pot at all. Your eloquent and logical arguments have convinced me.

US government offering loans to US companies to help the US economy.
The US is a single nation the EU is not.

Canada is a single nation.
The EU really is not.

You have hit on a truth that is old as Byte Magazine.
OS/s for the desktop never really mattered it is all about applications. You buy a computer to run applications you do not buy a computer to run an OS.
I would love a desktop with VMS running and OS/X UI and possibly some OS/2 Workplace shell as well but without the apps it would be useless.
It is kind of like what happened to the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga. They both had a better OS the MS-DOS and they both had better hardware at a cheaper price than you could buy to run MS-DOS.
The lack of app combined with the lack of coverage in the computer magazines is what killed them. You can not blame the magazines too much since Atari and Commodore could only buy so many ads compared to the all the adds that the clone makers could buy.
Right now I run Windows 7 at work but have VMs for Windows 8 and Linux for projects I work on.
ChomeOS has a chance now that so many people use their computers for the internet and not a lot else. I do not know the last time I bought a piece of software that was not a game for a PC.

Really? Of course they will send you a reset password in email. The other option is that or a link.
Ideally it is only good for a single use and you then enter a new password.
How else would you do password recovery?

Because they edit it and select it.

Really Slashdot editors....
Try 1979 at a Ford plant in Detroit.
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-sear...

Really it is a new low when the editors on slashdot can not be bothered to use Google
.

"Honestly, things which 10 years ago would have been the domain of crackpots is now 100% fact."
No. I keep hearing this but you guys must have lived on another planet. The fact that all governments sucked up just about all international communications dates back to the invention of the telegraph and maybe back to the mail.
Any idea that they were not monitoring all clear text transmissions over the internet frankly I find just dumb. As far as meta data that was always up for grabs.
False flag operations? That is in the realm of tin foil hats and crackpots. Frankly the rest of it is just common knowledge to anyone with a brain.

Why don't we have a -1 crackpot mod.