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These smaller form factors are overdue. Tower PCs the size of a labrador retriever are 90's technology.

True. But after 10 years of OS X, XP looks like something from the 90's.

Ironic how The Peoples' Republic of America has been found "ungovernable" and surprise, surprise: the answer is governing at the STATE level! It's almost as if this guy is channelling the Founders.

Apparently that wasn't the case in the 20th century.

Some would say we're still fighting the American Revolutionary War in 2010.

Few people realize it today, but the colonies were split right down the middle on revolution. Half wanted freedom and the America form of government, and the others were okay to go along with Britain and whatever Europe was doing.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

It's called Grand Central Dispatch.

Like England is? Last I looked, they were a pretty secular, post-xian society

Yet to this very day, England continues to have an official state religion. And interestingly enough, Connecticut & Massachusetts also had state religions.

Texas and Alaska however...

A big-wig at I.B.M. predicted the entire world market for computers would be restricted to about 5 units.

In the meantime, Steve Ballmer is more than happy to play along with Murdoch because although a deal with News Corps would reduce the basic profitability of Microsoft's search business, it would inflict far more damage on Google than on Microsoft."

So how would a deal with News Corps reduce the basic profitability of Microsoft's search business?

The "general welfare clause" is part of the preamble to the Constitution. It is not one of the enumerated powers of the U.S. Congress. To be Constitutional, Congress must only act from one of its enumerated powers. The United States of America is not a plenipotentiary Republic; that's the whole point of having enumerated powers.

Mod the parent up! This is the solution!

End of discussion.

Whoops. A little bit of reading and testing lead me to come up with this bit of code for my .emacs:

(when (and (eq 'darwin system-type) (eq 23 emacs-major-version)) (setq ns-alternate-modifier 'super) (setq ns-command-modifier 'meta))

This solves the Emacs Meta-key functionality problem. Looks like I'm moving to the newest version of Emacs today!

The build seems to work well except for a few key differences with earlier Emacs versions.

Compiling a Carbon version for OS X from the /mac directory is no longer possible because that entire directory has been removed. Instead OS X users need to compile a Cocoa version for OS X by following the directions in the /nextstep directory. At first this seems like a major win: reduce old code-bloat and compile with the newer frameworks. But unfortunately this produces an executable that delivers a couple of annoying inconsistencies.

First off, the Global Menu items are no longer in the OSX Menu Bar. It just makes the newer Cocoa version look sloppy and unfinished compared to the Carbon version. The second, and far more annoying difference, is the reservation of the Command-key for OS X-style functions. Command-N (new window), Command-W (close window), Command-C (copy) now all work just like on the Mac. But the infinitely more useful Emacs Meta-key functionality is now relegated to the Alt/Option key. :(

This is less about distributing knowledge and more about increasing distribution of Microsoft's video/web-technology, Silverlight .