What a Hitlerian thing to say.

DAMN! I've been waiting years to use that!

I do. Its been a fairly accurate prediction, yet a prediction none the less. The "law" part is just an anecdotal, off-the-cuff addendum. You want to support your theory that its in fact an actual law, here's room for your proof right here:

Sure. Where people still measure weight in "stone" the ENGLISH system must seem very archaic.

Umm, don't you mean Motorola chips? I mean, I'm no Appel expert but I could have sworn appel was big on Motorola procs for the longest time. I always liked the flat model addressing in those...

Oh please. Back here in the real world NO ONE CARES for your pedantry.

OMG. I know. Don't care. Not really relevant. Go play kick ball or whatever you do...

You're not even making any sense. People were arrested for using phones in the least intrusive manner possible? Anyway, "airplane mode" is still useful. Probably should be called "non-emission mode" or something though. Like if your at a boring lecture and want to play "wild, wild weasels" during.

Funny, I have no reason to trust the Gov. with it either, now.

Ok, well, that's a tale of a different sort...

You sound like one of my wiccan girl friends (I was some how gifted with three without really trying). Boring. If there were a higher power it should be noted that it left the building millenia ago. Halloween, great if your a kid. A waste of time if your an adult with an ounce of brains.

I employed a double entendre as well; the lowest form of humor.

Sure, cherry pick an obscure use case with old Atmel hardware. I think I'm ok with the arm stuff for now.

I'm in a real quandry here with the whole windows 8 thing; as a programmer I have no use for a touch screen so windows 8 is absolutely useless to me. On the other hand Microsoft used to get castigated for not innovating. So is the touch screen not the interface of the future, or did Microsoft simply blow it? I'm no fan, but the deal kind of smells like "damned if you do, damned if you don't."

I don't think so. The gcc & it's toolchain, and the arm cross-compiler, are indispensable where I'm at. The current licensing is little more than an annoyance right now.