Indeed. The user was King - at all times and in all circumstances.

And that's why justice is for the rich, in the US. If you have enough money, you are effectively above the law.

Such sweet words to coat a turd for people to swallow.

I must be missing something obvious, but why don't you just buy the Jolla?

Yes, I also like trackballs. I have (somewhere) an old laptop with a trackball - it has Windows 3.1 installed, just so you get the idea of the vintage. The only problem with trackballs is that they seemed to get broken rather quickly. They'd start jamming up and using them would be extremely unpleasant.

Funnily though, as much as I like trackballs, I find them much slower to use than trackpoints. Different folks, different strokes.

And THIS is why trackpoints (AKA "nipples") are superior to touchpads. Far superior, actually.

Thank you kind sir.

I'm like that, too. Unfortunately, my anti-charisma (to use your nice term) spilled over into my financial investments as well - every single company I bought shares of, tanked.

Actually, BeOS was near-realtime. QNX is true realtime.

This is the most important question in the whole thread: why does the EU care that Greece wants to tax the super-rich to raise the money?

And another interesting point: the root cause for the monetary shortfall in Greece is rampant tax evasion by the wealthiest, supported by rampant corruption. Greece is a deeply corrupt country, and the wealthiest in Greek society are the ones reaping the most benefit.

Please kindly provide a link to that Uzi homicide story. It's so tragicomic that it's quintessentially Greek.

BeOS has an incredibly responsive UI. I am not a software engineer so I am not sure which part of the OS is in charge of this, but it's something no other OS has been able to do, before and since: be perfectly responsive to user commands (keyboard and mouseclicks). What this means is: no matter what the computer is doing at any given time, the UI will react to the user commands. There is no file-copy too big, a computational task too complex, that the reaction to a user's command would be delayed. BeOS has spoiled me so much, because with that OS, user comes first, always.

Specifically with UCL, it was tantamount to constructive dismissal, and I hope he sues their pants off for that alone.

Tim Hunt was attacked and dismissed from UCL, the Royal Society and other bodies, based on nothing more than lies. Anybody can, with enough manipulation, be ostracized for comments taken out of context. Anybody.

If Tim Hunt is not reinstated, and the liar(s) that caused his reputation to be tarnished, will not bear the consequences of their dishonest behavior, our society is going towards a very scary future. We have not learned anything from the lessons of the past, and any Goebbels wannabe is going to fuck us up.

That chute won't help when either of the rotors is broken. The Martin "Jetpack" will nicely rotate and the chute, deployed at any altitude, will get entangled within fractions of a second.
There is a reason why 80% of Youtube footage of the Martin is still unmanned flight.