There are some things I really like about the Precisions. I have a M4500 for myself and a M4700 at work. The Quadro graphics is a nice touch. But none of mine are anywhere near as light as the MBP (haven't touched any of the M6xxx yet, we have some M3800s that are pretty lightweight). The main thing I like about my Precisions over the MacBooks (especially the retina based) is that I can easily replace components. It's a shame that I actually like OS X much better then Windows (or Linux, with the political mess it is becoming).

I complain about it violating Rule 4: Choose portability over efficiency, 5: Store data in flat text files, and 7: Use shell scripts to increase leverage and portability. It is not portable. It aims to break compatibility with other Unix OS's.

Considering that we have SMF from Sun and launchd from Apple as well, there was no need to reinvent the wheel.

Then maybe they should have tried using SMF or launchd.

He doesn't always have a long rant. Actually, the patches I submitted to libreSSL merely got marked approved, no rant attached at all.

Also note, if you are running a 32 bit version of Windows Win16 is still there.

Linux binary compatibility seems to work fine - if your programs are well written (and linked...). And Windows sucks just as much at compatibility (better hope your old program doesn't use any Win16 code on x64...). You want to see legacy code run? Try UNIX platforms - HP-UX on IA-64 will run the RISC binaries, I've installed stuff for Solaris 7 on Solaris 11. Or go with something that really hasn't changed, like VMS or IBM i (AS/400 for the older people).

At which point you're still losing because the start menu did the same thing, without transistioning the entire screen in the process.

Laptops are where I've noticed the biggest gaps between generations lately. Comparing a first gen i7 laptop to a third gen shows huge boosts in processor performance. On the desktop? I see no reason to replace my third gen i5 (if my motherboard hadn't died I'd be using an i7 920 right now too).

The beauty of open source.

Just noticed that my MacBook running Lion didn't get it....

See my post here for a list of capital letter commands found on various Unix systems (AIX, IRIX, Fedora Linux, OS X, and Solaris) since Slashdot's filters won't let me post it here....

On UNIX Systems I get quite the response too:

(Slashdot filters won't let me post the output from my IRIX system.  I get a " Filter error: That's an awful long string of letters there." Fuck you Dice.)

-bash-3.2$ uname -a
SunOS new-host 5.10 Generic_147440-01 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1500
bash-3.2$ bash -c "compgen -c | grep ^[A-Z] | sort"
CC
CCadmin
ControlPanel
DBMirror.pl
HtmlConverter
Mail
TIMEZONE
-bash-3.2$

Actually, the police kill more white people then black people.

You clearly have never lived in Baltimore. DwB isn't an offense here, and you're more likely to be pulled over and searched and/or beat down being a white person in the wrong neighborhood.