I find dragging and dropping the my Cups folder to our new systems is the easiest way to setup printers. I've run into some issues with scripting for it on a Mac. I'm sure I could work through it, but that would take a lot of time I don't have.

"Sure they are. I assure you that the priest who is fully supported by his congregation is taxed on his "earnings"."

Do you read stuff before you post?

What does "often do not earn any money" mean to you?

Also, there's a difference between joint filings for a family and "not earn(ing) any money". Besides, who said housewife? What about the unmarried woman with 5 kids and not working getting state and federal aid? What about the infirm? Transferring of government benefits (paid by actual 'tax payers") from one federal, state or pocket to the other could HARDLY be called "paying taxes". I'm not calling anyone out who happens to be in a situation that requires aid, but it is disingenuous to really try to call them "taxpayers".

You seem to have demonstrated that contradiction in whitewashing Marx. You over-simplify by focusing on Marx's economic theories* while ignoring the terrible evil that he advocated.

Marx is the father of modern political genocide. (5:18-7:40)

I expect after seeing political genocide in its various flavors that "voluntary" labor isn't too hard to get. That was certainly Stalin's experience.

* And those certainly aren't without their issues.

"Some do and some do not. People who stay home to raise children often do not earn any money. "

Then they aren't taxpayers, are they?

The latest research points to primarily sugar being the main problem in our diets. Excessive carbs in general seem to be likely driving a fair amount of weight and health problems and my very rudimentary understanding of the paleo approach addresses this and it's why many people on it find success -- if you're eating paleo, you aren't eating much bread, sugar, etc.

It seems to me that this transition to carb heavy diets that satiate hunger probably helped accelerate civilization -- it helped to satisfy hunger more easily and freed people to pursue activities that didn't involve hunting for food from dusk till dawn. But this came at a price -- negative health effects.

Maybe I just don't understand what paleo is all about, but trying to achieve a balance of macronutrients closer to those original diets seems like the point (or it should IMO) and not actually trying to eat foods that are 100% like what our ancestors ate.

FYI, my company recently purchased a half dozen 4K Dell monitors for our Mac users. They usually growl at us when we walk in with a piece of Dell equipment (since most of our users are fanboys) but are praising us by the time we leave. They are chainable, I discovered this by plugging the computer into the out port by mistake. As far as I know chaining is part of the Display Port spec, and there's no such thing as a Thunderbolt monitor, but I've been wrong before.

They were about $500 each, way less than Apple

I know about this, and I use it, it's how I bring up /etc. Still, a royal pain in comparison to say, Windows 95 B.

The thing about these UNIX based system in the modern era - system requirements can actually go down between releases. Draw lines where they need to be, with real specs, not age. I'm running a five year old system at home more powerful than a lot of new stuff, it just takes a little more electricity to run that quad core 64bit Athlon 64 with 8 GB of RAM than if I were to build it today. Apples hardware in the Mac Pro line of the same era had the same type of power my home built system does. Age of hardware makes little to no sense, you're just a fanboy defending your religious icon.

Dare I say it - they could adopt something along the lines of the Windows Score Microsoft has been using. Run the "score card" app on your hardware before upgrading to see if upgrading is for you.

Otherwise regular USB would be "good enough" like it has been for the past decade.

I don't know how you can look at a Mini USB 3.0 and say that. It's nearly as wide as the old style Apple connector, no USB really did need a Thunderbolt or better treatment, and I hope they stick with it for a while.

It's a common courtesy to give the slow kids a head start.

My biggest problem with Qt is the same as my biggest problem with Java. It's okay for in-house test tools, but it should never be used for actual end-user apps. You'll invariably end up with an application that doesn't quite behave like a native app, doesn't perform as well as a native app, and can't take advantage of advanced features of each OS without losing portability. In short, cross-platform apps written in this way almost invariably take advantage of only the least-common-denominator functionality common to all OSes, resulting in an app that sucks equally everywhere.

There's only one right way to create a cross-platform application: by separating the core logic from the UI, and then hiring people who actually know how to write software for each target OS to designing a custom UI that conforms to the way that users on that particular platform expect an app to behave. Anything less will always be substandard on one platform at best, and on all platforms at worst.

Now you could write that core logic in Java if you really want to (though you'll run into portability problems if anybody ever asks for an iOS port), but chances are, you're better off writing it in C or C++. Either way, using Qt or Java for the UI is IMO invariably a mistake unless you're just writing an app to meet your own personal needs.

I've got a VERY large Java code base. We use a number of the tools you mention and they are quite powerful and useful.

Yes, and I have some relatively large Perl scripts that are readable and maintainable. These are the exceptions that prove the rule.... :-)