Back in 1984, the Macintosh was first released. The only way to create applications for it was to run the development tools on the Apple Lisa.

Then, it became possible to run MPW (Macintosh Programmer's Workshop) and then came Lightspeed C aka ThinkC aka Symantec C which ran natively on the Macintosh.

Today, the only way to create native applications for the iPad is by running the development tools on a Macintosh.

Perhaps there is a pattern here?

No, that is incorrect. They are perfectly capable.

They have no business reason to support people who do not purchase the new operating system.

... And they STILL let you post on slashdot??? even in your spare time?

Does this mean that the BSA likes apple's iPad as a platform better since it had a very tiny percentage of people pirating apps?

Or perhaps they would prefer to be able to write off the equivalent losses?

Good point! And those special doctor notes could never be fabricated! :-)

So... The radiation was important enough to stop him. But then the radioactive person effectively says "this is not the terrorist that you are looking for" and the police let him go on. What if it were a terrorist?

It sounds like every terrorist now knows what to say when they are stopped.

Either this stuff is important enough to legally restrict or it isn't!

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?20677-Vaunted-Patriot-Missile-Has-a-Friendly-Fire-Failing .... But after the war, congressional and independent analyses concluded that the Patriot may actually have missed every Scud it targeted....

The patriot missile had a beginner level programmer's bug in it which caused it to miss every scud:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~downing/papers/PatriotB1992.pdf

An old man once told me that age and treachery will always trump youth and skill...

But this is exactly what happened:

http://newsbizarre.com/2009/04/giacchino-giuliani-italian-predicted.html

An Italian scientist, Giacchino Giuliani says he tried to warm the people in the earthquake devestated city of L'Aquila that a massive disaster was imminent only to be told he was an "imbecile".

An alarmed Giacchino Giuliani reportedly strapped loudspeakers to cars and vans and drove around the city in late March warning people that an earthquake was imminent due to increased activity involving radon gas.

"There are people who must apologize to me, and they must have the weight of what occurred on their conscience," Giacchino Giuliani said.

Observations of underground water before Sundy nights earthquake were also observed by Giacchino Giuliani but the man employed by a physics institute at Gran Sasso said he felt helpless as he knew Italian police would arrest him for further scare mongering.

And this is why only Homeland security should be allowed to edit your /etc/hosts file!

--jeffk++

Most likely no one DID connect a computer that controls industrial machinery to the internet.

They probably connected a DIFFERENT computer on the same network to the internet.

Apple already "innovated" that size in the Newton back in 1993: https://www.msu.edu/~luckie/gallery/mp100.htm

But I can't figure out the exact size of the screen - all the old articles just show pixel counts.

--jeffk++

I haven't tried the OpenRISC cpu but apparently it takes more gates than the MicroBlaze soft-cpu that Xilinx provides. BTW you can already run linux on the Microblaze in many Xilinx devices; see my github repo: https://github.com/jdkoftinoff/mb-linux-msli

--jeffk++

Where can I get an OpenRISC CPU and a motherboard that will support it, and how much do they cost compared to Intel/AMD CPUs of similar performance?

OpenRisc is a soft-cpu, defined in the Verilog language, suitable for implementing in many different types of FPGA's of varying price/performance/power.
Here is one source for boards of all types:

• Xilinx Boards and Kits

--jeffk++