What about SSL? We're looking into expanding our use of an SaaS ERP system into China. If it requires SSL will it stop working some day?

And "Pretty much all of Asimov's works" ? Really. The man was ridiculously prolific and was the ultimate polymath. You're talking about 3 slim novels and a handful of short stories. By profession he was a biochemist but also wrote a number of pop-science books that sold far more than anything else.

Since I've been migrating everything I can to OS-agnostic cloud apps for 7 years now they're making it easier than ever to "just say no" to Windows and use something else.

Cool.. I did the same thing in 7th grade only we had mark-sense cards. It was an after-school class with a math teacher in West Vancouver, BC.

We ran our batches on Friday afternoon. If you made a syntax error (or a smudgy mark) the compile-edit loop length was 1 week.

Basic+2 on RSTS/E on an 11/70, with DEC VT50 and VT52, and Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminals... 1978 too,

Cool idea - Just like an AC-130 but with a cable instead of a chain of hot lead (or depleted uranium)

not any more than I had to...

When I started at DEC in 1980 we had a PDP-11 running DEC Standard Mumps that had a program that did email. I believe it was actually called "email" too.
It was not new at the time.

It's a point & shoot but the combination of 12 Mpixels, Nikor lens and image stabilization in both still and video modes makes it 10 times as useful as any other P&S I've tried. Also takes 1080P video, fits in your pocket and costs less than $250. It can also do ricks like exposure compensation without burrowing 10 levels into a menu.

It had a keyboard. I think it was a DEC LA120.

Yeah done that.. paper jams were a bitch, though.

I remember even going to the trouble of cutting one of the leads in the RS-232 cable to make the logging printer a true write-only device.

won't tell you about Eric.

Oracle To Bring Disgrace to Linux ? Just saying, is all.

I started with Newton-Waltham Savings Bank, who was bought by Baybank, etc. etc.. and my mortgage was with Countrywide.

I have friends who used to be Shawmut customers, and Sunbank customers in FL and KeyBank customers in NY.. they're all stuck with BoA now.

In the process of switching out of BoA myself now. Just have to find a place to land my rollover IRA. Thinking TD Ameritrade.