Essentially, yes. The master control (final step before transmission) has the ability to change output volume. It isn't that hard to do so (either manually or automatically, depending on the existing setup).

"the great Internet is in danger of turning into a lawless range of chaos, where you're allowed to bully, insult, and deceive limitlessly."

It's not already?

He asked for a freer country. Australia seems destined to censor the entire Internet out of existence.

Apple had the advantage of inheriting NeXT's already architecture-independent API, and all of their new code respected that. Unfortunately, Win32 is *mostly* source-compatible between architectures but not entirely - it's only recently that you start seeing explicit type sizes such as UINT32 instead of just UINT - you still often have to guess what that will be on your target architecture.

Apple also inherited the Mach-O format, which encapsulates code for different architectures into a single binary - core system libraries often have code for ppc, ppc64, i386, and x86_64 all in one. PE binaries don't have that luxury, so you often see multiple binaries per architecture - proggy_x86.exe and proggy_x64.exe, for example. Imagine the confusion that would cause for your average user with ARM thrown into the mix.

Or, better yet, if security really was the goal, develop a C-like language that was secure by design?

And then why don't you make it compile to non-native code, so you can do code analysis at runtime? Might as well give it a good standard library that uses all the features so people would try writing stuff. Of course, you can't name it C then, maybe you should give it a catchier name with some punctuation or other pun on the language.

Hey, wait a minute...

Snow Leopard is Intel-only, and apparently even encourages developers to target 64-bit primarily (thus leaving out the pre-Core 2 machines).

To be pedantic, the PPC iMac was discontinued in January of 2006. If the machine is really two years old it will run Snow Leopard fine.

That would actually be Chewy on drums, Leia on vocals, Vader on bass, Han and Luke on guitar, and R2/C3PO on synth.

I would like to raise your statement an order of magnitude and suggest it is before the age of 35 that people are incapable of understanding that.

There's also the minor issue of having to port it to Java.

and Von Neumann would do it in his head

Ah yes, the classical separation of code and data.

Are you perchance the roommate of this person? http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1159123&cid=27180213

Java is a wonderful language

I understand those words but not their meaning together.