I wonder if even the BCPL could be compiled today. Altos were great for showing the coke machine status through the window of the 3rd floor CS lab. Oh the days of the much-sought X1 key. Bonus points for anyone who gets that reference.

Because men 6ft tall are unacceptable? Is this science, or a dating service?

Didn't this all get sorted out decades ago with Amdahl vs IBM ??

Oh, so you like using a serial console too? Video consoles are stupid. Sluggish across oceans, Java hassles, cut/paste doesn't work.

Seriously? When do you think circumcision, castration, and orchiectomy were first practiced?

I do. I learned it in 1990. For the the most annoying thing about TFA is the use of the word "womb", as if this were 1814 not 2014. Are we really afraid of the word UTERUS?

Or you have RA. I knew someone in her 30's who drove a Subaru for just that reason, heated seat.

Oh? I missed the part where support for 95% of the hardware that people try to use was removed.

They already did. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...

I'm guessing you have ancient dimmers. My LED's work just fine on a switch or on a modern electronic dimmer rated for them.

For sure there are many crappy CFL's out there. When you buy a twisty CFL for 25 cents at a drug store, you get what you pay for. My Cree-manufactured recessed retrofit LED's are doing great, they were like $25/each at Home Despot courtesy local utility subsidy. Unfortunately that only covered the 2700K models, but my wife insists on yellow light anyway.

Wish I had mod points to give, this echos my feelings too. I have a 4s now and have felt that my wife's 5 was already too big. And now we're seeing reports of 6's being bent up because they're too damned thin. I'll be delaying an update of my 4s indefinitely, maybe when the 7 comes out there will be an iPhone Mini that returns to the size of a phone. And I'm neither skinny nor a candidate for tight jeans.

Ubuntu kernel: like the way it suddenly started wrapping sd errors over a certain length, confounding monitoring?

I'm having issues with Toshiba 3TB drives right now that best I can tell are vibration-related. 20%+ of these drives report medium errors within the first few months of deployment. Seagates in the same chassis don't fail at nearly that rate. Toshiba and LSI swear that this is normal. They're on bad crack.

What about the option of not cheaping out on the connectivity plan and instead getting one that matches your actual usage?