I use my corporate WinXP laptop less than 10% of the time - mainly for Outlook and the IE-only internal websites. Most of the time I'm at work, I'm on my Fedora desktop (I'm the Linux admin for my company, with a side of OpenVMS). For meetings, I take my iPad - if something comes up I can use SSH from the iPad. When I'm out and about, I've got the iPad and iPhone. At home, I'm usually on the iPad. Since I got the iPad two years ago, I use my MBP at home about 10 - 15% of the time.

Unlike the usual Apple-hater slander, I'm not a technically clueless hipster. I've been a programmer and admin for 35 years.

Posted from my iPad.

Please point me to the OS source for AIX or HP/UX - a couple of other UNIXes.

I live in a large urban area, well lit. It's a rare night when you can see more than a few stars.

Actually, Mac OS X is a *certified* UNIX, along with Solaris, AIX, and HP/UX. What command line tools do you think it doesn't have?

Linux isn't a UNIX, it's a unix-like system.

OpenVMS end of the world is 31-Jul-31086 02:48:05.47 GMT We've got a bit of time left.

Yeah, it's using a lot more CPU. My 2.6GHz dual-core MacBookPro shows Firefox running at 50% - 80% (out of 200%) usage just reading this article. Used to run about 15%-20%. (Firefox 3.6.13, AdBlock+ disabled for slashdot, Mac OS X 10.6.6).

Can I get the old one back?

You still have a broken threshold adjustment on iPad's Safari. The new slider is completely non-functional. What's worse, going back to D1 doesn't work at all.

This is Slashdot after all.

Another thing that Google might do would be to throw out the BigTable source (maybe a generation or two behind) to poison the commercial big database market.

Wouldn't Larry like that?

How 20th century.

I should have known better than to come in here. Flamewar from hell. Whatever.

Personally, I don't give a small rat's ass if any Apple product ever supports Adobe Flash. Linux can stop supporting Adobe Flash as well. Then, Adobe could stay right where it belongs - on Microsoft computers. I mean, we HAVE alternative to Adobe on Linux. And, it really shouldn't be hard to port any of them to Mac - it's a Unix-like, after all. Let Adobe chase after the Microsoft market, and create security holes in Windows, where they belong.

Yes, I'll load an occasional site that relies on Adobe, and the content won't run. No big deal. I'll miss that content, and the site will miss my repeat visits. Fair trade.

The Linux world is growing. Yeah, there's a long way to go to say that Linux even competes with Microsoft for market share - but so what? The Linux world is still growing, and people will complain the site developers that they can't see the content. Eventually, developers will develop with the alternatives to Adobe in mind.

The world is a beautiful place when you don't rely on proprietary shit.

This reminds me of the Brady Bunch episode where Peter decides that he has no personality and starts talking like Humphrey Bogart.

Oxygen resonates at 60GHz, so range will be crap. Like all unlicensed bands, 60GHz is unlicensed because it is a crappy band. All the good bands are strictly reserved for the exclusive use of the highest (or most crooked) bidder.

Given what the tech industry has been able to make out of unlicensed use of the 2.4 GHz band (undesirable for commercial use due to water absorbing it and microwave ovens using it) imagine what it could do if it got part of a more desirable band currently used mostly to provide poor quality and overpriced cell service?

i tried to consider what 9.6 billion light years was like in terms of distance

Not that hard to conceptualize - it's about 10% of Everything (if the current numbers for the Observable Universe are to be believed).

To be fair, the problem with social security is that it was enacted when most people died before retirement age (retirement being 65; most died at 63) and we now live much longer. The solution is to push the retirement age for social security higher (it should be tied to estimated life expectancy statistics) and encourage (from a tax perspective) people to save more during their lives, while being comfortable as a nation/world with slower growth due to lower levels of consumption. But we know that ain't gonna happen, and it's going to end up as a clusterfuck of epic proportions. There is going to be a huge retired population who is going to want to lean on younger generations to provide for them, and those younger folks (myself included) are not going to want to slave away for the older generations. Begun, the generation wars have.