You just described how many of us feel about iTunes today. My iPods are essentially offline now because I don't want Apple software on my PC.

It isn't an Apple product, so it wasn't designed by a team that fetishizes thinness (thin is the ' one button mouse' of the present day)

The reason it's rhetoric is you seem to be describing Vista and older oses. Also it sounds like you have zero experience with current Windows on a tablet.

Mac servers? You mean that SE/30 running the Pokeytalk network, with the Laserwriter attached to it?

What you mean is people won't be able to use it to shuffle the same pop music and Hollywood films back and forth to each other. Real communication is still feasible.

Also, with the "shops and various sites operating beacons" part they've brought back the dudes with the powerful linear on their CB rig.

Wow. In Pohl and Kornbluth's novel "The Space Merchants" there were obnoxious advertisements that would pop up as you tried to walk down the sidewalk. This furthers us toward that future.

Global Warming might make it an easier place to work.

Is there anything I should add to my ~/.cshrc file to protect against this bug?

I'm not sure what's more repelling about your comments in this topic. Your incorrect explanations, or the way you flame other people for their incorrect understanding.

  Suffice it to say you don't know shit about what you're talking about. For instance, the line drops on a two meter cable run of DC or AC are going to be the same. (We're talking 60 hertz, right? There will be significant drop on a 400Mhz voltage if the line isn't impedance matched.)

I'd say "go take a class about electronics" but judging from the tone you take here you'd spend the whole time arguing with the instructor thus fucking over the other class attendees. So just sit in your darkness. But shut up.

PWM can be accomplished by many drive methods, using an NPN or PNP or MOSFET transistor. Or a JFET or I suppose a triode vacuum tube, among other options. Do you know anything about semiconductors (and tubes)?

Then eventually they'll install banks of RS-232 ports and 'throwback' dumb terminals for free use.

So you are saying Apple is equivalent to those companies you named? Many of us agree.

Do you get overtime when Apple fucks up this badly and you have to come on Slashdot to protect them?

Nexus devices don't have SD slots. Because google finds it harder to sift through your data when it's not on their 'cloud.'

One of the things I like a lot about NetBSD is that the 'default' GUI is the Tab Window Manager. The base install ISO for NetBSD-i386 is still only 321MB. You add what you want to using Pkgsrc. No croft, no unneeded shit.