Could not agree more with this statement -- Unix under the hood is THE reason I have a half dozen mac's today (whole family). I have made a number of serious runs at switching back to Windows (latest several months ago with Windows 7 (64 bit), but the combination of Unix under the hood and the UI above is just a tough combination to beat.

Could have sworn that XP was not available before Windows 2000 -- but what do I know...

It is frequently not any of the above at higher altitudes where this weapon is designed to operate -- it is on a plane after all...

Not quite understanding the purpose behind this application. After all, the perpetrator who illegally parked their car is admitting quilt, just that they want to pay less to the government. This is what is wrong with this country in the first place. Folks are too selfish as it is, don't they realize the benefit that comes from transferring their money to the government? It is proven that that money spent by the government returns more value to society then any other type of potential spending. The sooner we all buck up and pay government it's fair share -- the sooner the economy will pick up, providing benefit to all folks in the most equitable manner possible.

You might need to bump up the total cost when one thinks of depreciation, but for the most part, you've got it right. I travel nearly weekly, and I've only ever done it on trains 3 times for business. The first was a business meeting in Chicago (Sears Tower) in the afternoon. Took an overnight from upstate NY to Chicago (12 hours), walked the block from the train station to the meeting and an overnight back. At the time, the cost was a third what the airlines wanted, but today it would be MUCH different. Flight costs have moderated a lot from the go-go 90's. Nowadays, traveling by train could never work (especially since my company has to pay for every hour of travel time (which mostly counts as overtime -- i.e. time and a half), due to the latest California laws (although getting paid for the 36 hour trip to Chicago would have been nice).

But the solution is so obvious. Just have the government step in with tax dollars to fund these icons of journalism. After all, if the plebeians are too cheap to fund what is so obviously beneficial to the control of them, then the state must step in and make them contribute to that apparatus.

Typical web browsing (which these days means lots of flash :-( as well). Safari just seems to accumulate more cruft over time, using more memory, and generally getting slower until it crashed (every couple of days). FireFox in my experience appears to be much more kind on memory usage 200-300 MB over time, as opposed ti Safari (500-600MB over the same timeframes). Even with the extra memory, it didn't appear to perform any quicker. I really wanted to standardize on Safari (have used it most of the last 3-4 years, but the latest version of FireFox on OSX is really quite good, including: - Inline support for PDF's - Less memory usage - more compatible with my range of websites I think/hope Safari/Webkit will continue to improve, but for me, for now, FireFox is just a better browser on OSX (this coming from someone with a whole family of Mac computer users, an Apple TV, and Apple Extreme, iPhone, etc...).

Can't speak for Windows or Linux, but the latest versions of Safari are memory whore's on OSX 10.5. Put up with it as long as I could, but eventually had to switch to FireFox on my Mac (with 3 GB of memory), just to get my sanity back (besides which, more sites that I need access to play nicer with FireFox then with Safari).

I have to stop this thread now -- respond as many times as you like, as I will not be responding anymore. You must be one of the biggest horse's asses on slashdot (which is saying something). Have fun with your life, I truly feel sorry for the twisted, mean and ridiculous world witch you inhabit, and I don't wish to be drawn any further into your lunacy... Have a fun life, although I doubt you are capable of it.