...or even Amazon. Conventional TV is about the worst way to consume video. For things other than sports, it really isn't necessary anymore.

Although Sports would benefit even MORE from a Netflix+iTunes approach to distribution.

> And it's still a nightmare to write and deploy closed source software on Linux...

Strange then that Oracle has been doing it for so well for so long. It kind of makes you wonder what sort of extra special trade secrets they must be employing to make this happen.

> Because slim laptops may not have DVD, HDMI/VGA output,

Simple. Buy LESS LAME hardware.

The only thing Thunderbolt does that USB does not is passthrough of the display port connection that your lame laptop probably already has (or should have).

USB is already a bus and has already handled things like ethernet for quite some time now.

Big fat hariy deal...

apt-get install thunderbolt-driver

If it's really bad, then it's...

apt-get install thunderbolt-kernel

A lot of this really just boils down to 60s ideas of environmentalism and reducing pollution. It's just that the modern spin ads an extra level of extreme hysterics to the situation that are likely to alienate people and trigger skepticism.

Although you are probably right. If you ask all of the apathetic types just going along or even the true blue tree huggers to really sacrifice, you will probably get a much different answer.

That's probably why you have this whole subject wrapped in hysteria to begin with. Someone thinks they need to generate a sense of urgency by any means necessary.

VMware has better USB and SATA device support. It requires less resources to run multiple VMs (compared to virtualbox) and more readily supports virtual clusters.

Although I could certainly see how most other desktop VM users would be perfectly satisfied with Virtualbox.

George Carlin had a great routine on this subject. He correctly surmised that we were all guinea pigs. His particular example was birth control pills but this could apply equally to any new chemical or product. We usually really don't know the full implications of something until it's been tested by the end user. There usually isn't sufficient "science" done beforehand to really trust a new drug or product. So we are ultimately all guinea pigs and we have to just see what happens.

Unfortunately by that point it's hard to isolate all the variables.

If cancers and allergies go up, who do you blame? There are so many possible culprits.

Also, science is much harder and much less certain than the talking heads will admit.

There is no health benefit to taking a perfectly useful plant and adding more poisons to it. It doesn't matter if it's what occurs in the planet naturally or some other product that someone wants to sell to your local farmer (Roundup).

We already grow more than enough food. We have been letting food rot in order to prop up commodities prices since before you were born.

How exactly could Google even stop Microsoft? The OS allows for side loading and alternative stores. If Microsoft can't get on the Play store, they could just sell their stuff through Amazon.

That summary makes absolutely no sense.

Alternately 10 million people got a mental health day. That's $20 per person. That's probably less than the cost of going to the movies in NYC.

90F might not be but 70 is. Alternately, you could say that someone in the organization has anemia and likes the temp at 75 or 80. Either way, there is still likely to be a significant enough difference compared to the outside.

There will be plenty of bandwidth. It's just that the network monopolies will want to choke it off so that they can favor their own services.

I remember back when single CD blanks were $30 a pop and pirates still used them to copy games. I thought it was nuts then but people did it.

Don't assume that just because you are a luddite late adopter or intolerable cheap that the rest of us are too.

> I see your AR-15 and raise you an M-1 Tank

Marine infantrymen are trained how to disable tanks. They are aren't armed with much beyond the AR-15.

Also, that bit about anti-Pascal criticisms being outdated or due to the "wrong implementation" pretty much destroys any idea that it would be superior for "cross platform" development. The excuses for those misconceptions show why Pascal would have a hard time being useful for "cross platform" purposes.

What subset of "modern Pascal" do you have to restrict yourself to avoid those "problems".