carve (wood) into an object by repeatedly cutting small slices from it.

Read further into the dictionary... Substitute (wood) with costs

Or did I just miss a really bad joke?

Like a Predator Drone?

Maybe the POS system company you work, or contract for is 99.9% XP Embedded, but in the past several restaurants I have worked for, it is Linux on most of the touch screen terminals. You can easily tell when the terminal is rebooted and you see Linux loading instead of Windows. Micros and Squirrel are the two most recent vendors, where I have worked and of the 3 restaurants, only one had one XP embedded terminal, all the others were Linux.

Granted, once presented with the actual POS interface, you can't tell if it is Windows or Linux. Just like those bar top systems designed to separate you from your money even faster than a Vegas slot machine.

Actually those touch screen POS terminals you see in most bars and restaurants? Linux. Those touch screen bar top games? Also Linux. Now the computer in the back office that those communicate with for the managers and chefs? That's probably Windows XP. Some of the POS terminals are Windows embedded from years and years ago, but mostly the POS terminals are Linux. They do the credit card reading/authorizing and inventory if the system is set up for it.

Of course not, this is Slashdot after all, bitch first, RTFA later (if ever) and bitch more. Bonus points (bitch points?) if they do not own a Mac or a Palm device.

Well think about it. If you write a book on motorcycle racing, how many prospective buyers do you think you will have? Not nearly as many as a book on Ruby. Perhaps now with micro publishing we will see more. Also there is a wealth of info in the intarweb, well maybe not so much on actual chassis design, but you can get quite a background just from reading some of the amateur racing websites.

Have you read Kevin Cameron's "Sportbike Tuning Handbook"?

but, the swine flu

So what are you going to do when Windows 7 comes out and all the software updates again, which probably won't run on your XP machine from 2001? Since you say you want 10 years use, that is about 2.5 years from now, based on when XP came out.

I will take back what I said before about getting over it, as you do have a point. Really though is 129 too much to spend to get Leopard? To use the popular car analogy here, do you expect to get 10 years out of your car without ever buying tires or changing the oil?

BZZZT Wrong, your OSX 10.2 is still upgradeable to 10.2.x. Your XP is not upgradeable to Vista for free, which is what you are asking for. You want Leopard for free because some new software requires it. Your 10.2 has not stopped working. Any software that requires Vista would "Stop working" on your XP-PC as well.

In other words, get over it.

The builder and grocer sell each item one time, and then have to produce more. Slightly different I would say.

McRoyale with cheese, motherfucker?