He is clearly not a Swift learner!

No it's not. That's quite the opposite: most cable companies would like to see the CRTC go away because it forces those who have specialized channels (basically every single profitable cable company) to contribute to a big pool of money that public services can tap into to subsidize their ad-free programming (which directly competes with private cable companies) and to pay for content that nobody cares about and that will never make money (a la CSPAN or PBS).

The truth is that the CRTC is mostly a symbolic agency with very little power. They report to the Minister of Canadian Heritage, which has maybe 3 employees and 2 interns. They don't control the frequencies or anything like that.

Gee-Noo is pretty bad, but I've heard worse:

-Lunix
-MySqueal
-System VI (talking about the text editor)
-Batch script (instead of Bash script)

I often hear Genome also but that one I like, I think that's how everyone should say it. Gnome sounds like someone sneezing.

Any experienced sailor will tell you that there is no need to see the hidden part of the iceberg to consider giving it a wide berth.

The guy will upload 3D printer firmware, and demons from Doom will come out of the printer.

RUN

Are you implying that Sidekick was not a graphical interface? What about dosshell?

Those were great graphical interfaces, responsive and fluid. I remember switching to a larger monitor and being amazed to see that dosshell was still filling the whole screen. Nowadays you don't get that with those big fancy Apple monitors, people have to use non-maximized windows.

Did you try right-clicking on the Windows logo (former Start menu button) in Windows 8.1? A lot of things in that context menu were tedious to access in previous versions of Windows (such as the event viewer).

With that menu and the pinned icons on the start bar, I only occasionally need to search for another application, and it is a lot faster to use the search bar and type 2-3 letters than it was to deal with multi-level navigation in the old start menu.

The past is always better. I don't know what went wrong at Microsoft to start doing those silly things like "Windows Services" instead of sticking with a proven technology like TSR. Was there even a need for Windows? I'm pretty sure that if there had been no Windows there would be a Sidekick extension available to display twitters and facebooks.

Let's all stop this progress madness NOW and focus instead on the sound principles of the Ordnung.

You have to try something.

1) Get drunk on dark liquor
2) Put on the song "Pick up the pieces" by Candy Dulfer. Loud.
3) Wear your 3D glasses
4) Play Supaplex

This will change your life forever.

Well I also believe that SLI is a Nvidia technology, I just checked and on ATI cards the equivalent was crossfire. I can't tell for sure which one it was, but this is more evidence to the fact that I've been using onboard vga adapters for quite a long time :-)

Most recent operating systems will take care of saving power when the machine is idle, it won't make a noticeable difference what cpu you pick. Look instead at storage: SSD use between 1/3 or 1/4 of the power used by spinners.

Also if you look at energy efficiency buy one of those smart powerbars that will turn off power in groups (e.g. switching off the speakers when the tv is powered off). Something like a LCG5. This will have a much higher impact on your power bill than cherry-picking computer components.

You don't get comfortable quick... Over the last 10 years the only time I've decided to upgrade a mobo videocard was during a drunken weekend when for some reason I felt ashamed of having an item with a 4.5 score on the Windows Experience Index utility - I went out and bought a pair of high-end Radeon (with the SLI thing). About $600 to get a 9.1 score.

Fans were noisy and I was annoyed each time I had to move the computer because I could never tell in which card I should plug the main monitor. But Youtube videos sure looked good.

The scene happens in the office of Twitpic.

The CEO comes back from a bathroom break and sees the light flashing on his phone. He checks his voicemail. There is a message from someone at Twitter asking him to call back.

The CEO instantly slams down a big red button that has been sitting on his desk since Day 1. Immediately, his closest collaborator, the COO, receives a cryptic Tweet: "it's happening!". So the COO runs to the cupboard, moves around a few boxes of microwave popcorn and poptarts, then finds a bottle of champagne that has been gathering dust for the last 5 years. He puts the bottle in the fridge, then runs around the office to ask everyone to immediately proceed to the conference room.

The whole team is sitting around the speakerphone. Most are running numbers in their head. 1 billion? 200 millions? 10 millions? Just like they do every night before falling asleep, they think about the house they will buy for their mom and how good they will feel about it. They think about the pool parties in Vegas. The orgies with rockstars and supermodels. Fast cars. Loose women.

Then the lawyer picks up. The team hold their breath. At first there is some confusion because the lawyer does not remember why he left a message, he has to go check his dayplanner. Everybody in the team is amazed about this. Some think that since buying a company is something so common that the lawyer can't keep track of potential acquisitions then it's a done deal and maybe they will get the money quickly. Maybe before Christmas. Maybe before the rent is due on October 1st.

Then the lawyer comes back on the line, and within 2 minutes the hopes and dreams of the team are crushed. They did not win the startup lottery. They failed.

Then one by one the team members leave the room, and the office. The CEO and the COO are alone in the room. But they refuse to give up. They open their laptop and go to www.whois.net. They try FacePic.com, GooglePic.com, and many other names. And when they finally get one, they decide it's time to "pivot". Fire everyone, create a new logo, spend a week to revamp the GUI. And then try to win the startup lottery again.

Apple market cap is about $618 billions. So they would need to find 551 billions to go private.

Dell buyout was about $25 billions. Last time I checked the setup was:
-Loan from banks: 50%
-Dell's company cash: 30%
-Loan from Microsoft: 10%
-Private equity (Silver Lake): 7%
-Michael Dell's own money: 3%

To achieve the same kind of setup, here is what it would mean for Apple:
-Loan from banks: 309 billions
-Apple's cash: 185 billions (3x what they have according to you)
-Loan from Microsoft (or other partner, provided Apple has any): 61 billions
-Private equity (Silver Lake) 43 billions
-Tim Cook's own money: 18 billions

Apple has a buyback program but it's not making a dent.

Not making a dent in what? Apples stock is at an all time high.

The purpose of a buyback program is to BUY BACK stock to progressively regain a higher % of ownership of the company. The higher the stock price, the lower the effect of the buyback. Apple spent about 44 billions to buy back some of its stock over the last year. But it did not make a huge difference.

I'm not sure what agenda you are talking about. Is that some kind of lame accusation of being involved in PR for one of the companies I mentioned? Because that's the typical response from fanbois and other zealots whenever someone is not bending over and praising their false idols.

Your emperor has no clothes, it's a greedy corporation with a lousy track record for security and no concern for their customers. Saying that is not a blasphemy or a PR operation, it's just the naked truth.