. . . "social change".

If they were, then, with full inter-web access, the protesters on Wall Street would have been as successful at bringing about change as were the protesters in Tahrir Square (sometimes without it).

Looks like a "let's see if they'll jump again" trial balloon from HP . . .

Though I have to admit that it's pretty good bait.

What evidence do you have of high achievement during those decades?

I'm not being argumentative, I am just interested in what evidence there might be towards proving that point.

. . . a practical use for that 3 Tb drive I've been hearing so much about.

I have to agree that "gaming" is becoming a redundant function.

The first reaction to something like the Vita has to be, "What else does it do?"

Arduin of Ivrea too, and she even has light brown hair.

With MacPorts, OSX is like FreeBSD, but frankly there's nothing like the real thing.

I often get modded down for posting this (probably partly b/c I post it too often), but . . .

Apple's hardware is tops, but OSX is a lesser-BSD and it would be the best of all possible worlds if a user could replace it (easily and completely) with a real one (FreeBSD, PC-BSD, or Desktop BSD).

I only vaguely remember that time, but IIRC according to Norbert's Rules of Adolescence, being a "nerd" pretty much precludes being "cool" and vice versa.

So if the kids at makerspace are cool, then they are not nerds.

I have always felt this same cognitive dissonance with regard to "comic book stores". I think that comic books were only truly "nerdy" when you had to buy them from the newsstand/drugstore in front of "normal people".

IMHO, it ain't nerdy unless it's embarrassing.

No one cares, but IMHO XP was (is) not really too bad.

I use Mac OS X––after having used DOS, and all of the previous Mac Systems thru 9––and frankly I don't like it so much.

Apple's hardware––regardless of what anyone says about it––is the best, but OS X is the least of the BSD's and ought to be replaced with a real one of those.