Many of the Bay Trail tablets come with less than 4GB of RAM and aren't upgradable. Running x64 on them would be just a waste of memory and flash storage.

There are other electric interstate trains in the US.

Its a shame that none of the major SOHO NAS vendors (Synology, Drobo, etc) use check summing file systems. They seem to be sticking with things like ext4 instead of ZFS.

NTFS has received a few non-backward compatible revisions over the years. The last big update was with Windows 2000. What was evil about it was Win2k would silently upgrade the file system on mounted drives, rendering them unreadable on machines running older versions of Windows NT (NT4 SP4 was the first to add NTFS5 read/write support).

Think of HFS+ as the equivalent of FAT32 for Macs. Its basically the old file system with support for larger drives and files. Apple latter tacked on journaling in OS X 10.3. I'm surprised Apple didn't push for a replacement file system after the switchover to Intel CPUs.

Or call them an "applet". Hmm, sounds a bit like Java.

Back in the 68k days, there were tools to strip the un-needed binaries from FAT applications depending on the machine you had. The forked files used by classic Mac OS were an advantage, you could store the common resources in the resource fork of the file for both PPC and 68k.

The problem with the A-10 is that its already built and flying. That doesn't generate tons of money for defense contractors and politicians like developing a new aircraft does. The F-35 has the same compromise that every "one size fits all" design has. It does everything "OK", but not as well as a purpose built aircraft could and costs a ton of money to achieve it.

Sold listings on ebay point to an average selling price of $125-150 for the Q9550S, some of which came with motherboards. The 45nm Yorkfield chips didn't seem to be very popular and were released quite late. Most folks went with Nehalem CPUs, so the low number of C2Qs from that era likely keep the prices high. The 65nm Q6600 was far more popular, easy to overclock, and can be had for cheap. I have a X38 based system I would like to upgrade myself, but with the high cost of CPUs and DDR2 memory, its likely to get replaced completely at this point.

The Start Menu has a bit of research backing it. Windows 95 was likely the last time Microsoft devoted quite a bit of money towards UI research and design.

I'm waiting for Swift.NET *ducks*

Objective-C is freely available in gcc, hopefully Apple doesn't make this one OS X/iOS specific. Open languages have a shot at being cross platform friendly.

If one looks at the past year or so of XP updates, only one part of the OS constantly received updates month-to-month. That same OS component is included with POSReady 2009..... Internet Explorer. By default it comes with IE7 installed, but it can be updated to IE8. Most of Windows XP is there, some of the stuff totally removed is the games (we all know Solitaire has a long list of exploits!) and fluff like Windows Movie Maker. They added some stuff like .NET Runtime for Embedded in its place. DirectX is still intact and working. It can be updated to 9.0c with the latest redistributable. You really can't chop out much of "Windows" without breaking binary compatibility. Most of the applications POSReady 2009 is supposed to run were designed for retail XP initially.

I ran a 1980s car with Bosch mechanical fuel injection on the E10 crap (that is mandated here in NJ) without a problem. No leaking seals and always started with a flick of the ignition. Part of the problem isn't the alcohol, but the water it attracts (ethanol is hygroscopic).

ULSD usually damages fuel pumps due to the lack of lubrication. Ironically the most common way to increase the lubricating properties of ULSD is to blend in some biodiesel.