Javascript is for pussies. Teach him brainfuck.

Turn down the hostility a notch, dude, I was just answering iocat's question. Visit another Slashdot thread or two, there's this thing called topic drift, you know?

And I laugh at your second statement, since I'm still waiting on a Thinkpad or Dell machined from a solid block of Aluminum, synaptics touchpad with gesture support, illuminated keyboard, a power adapter equal or better to the MagJack, LED backlighting, decent battery life WITHOUT a drive bay (yes, to me a swappable drive bay is a dis-feature), lithium polymer batteries rather than lithium ion for better power density to weight ratio, and oh yea, the absence of a Microsoft operating system for something you know, more UNIX-y. There are laptops from Dell and Lenovo that have some of the features above, but not one that comes close to having all of them.

Personally I love how computer geeks on Slashdot will argue over spending a few hundred extra dollars for something THEY SIT IN FRONT OF ALL DAY, EVERY DAY. I wouldn't buy a $500 car if I drove 1000 miles a week. In the end you get what you pay for. A $300 netbook will not get you very far, ask me how I know.

Buy a USB hub, a Mini DisplayPort to [VGA|DVI] adaptor, and an extra power adaptor (shouldn't run you >$100 total). I unplug and plug these three things into my MacBook daily and it's not bad at all. To think that I could pick my nose with the three seconds I would've saved is profound.

Wrong -- At least for the new models. My 13" MacBook Unibody (the ones right before the 13" MacBook Pros) has extended desktop. Also the white polycarbonate models have extended desktop as well.

http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html

I'm feeding fire to the flame by saying this, but if you're okay with shelling out another $800 to Apple, the 24" LED Cinema Display makes a great docking station -- Well, the closest Apple will ever get. It has three connections, USB to 3-port hub, Mini DisplayPort, and a Mag Jack for power. Not as easy as just picking your laptop up and walking away, but it's really not that bad. Yes it's obviously over-priced, but for me it works. Also the LED backlight and In-Plane Switching TFT panel makes it tremendously better color reproduction and viewing angle when compared to the CCFL twisted-nematic displays common today. I do a lot of photography so the color reproduction is important.

But I do agree with you, I don't know any businesses outside of art and movie studios that would go with a MacBook and Cinema Display. I find it works great for home though. And yes, I'm in the boat that thinks spending >$2000 for a computer setup isn't a huge deal if it's something you like in the end. I could turn it into a car analogy i.e. Mercedes vs. Volkswagen, but I'm rambling on at this point.

I ran into the same problem. Basically the answer is "PCs are keyboard-driven, Macs are primarily mouse-driven." I did find a few hacks that should get the home/end keys working, but with all the kernel panics and problems I've had with Snow Leopard so far, I decided not to push my luck.

http://heisencoder.net/2008/04/fixing-up-mac-key-bindings-for-windows.html
http://heisencoder.net/2008/05/fixing-home-and-end-keys-on-firefox-3.html

Yes, and it works great out of the box. I have an Apple 24" LED Cinema Display as my second monitor at 1920x1200. Not only does it work great under OSX, it also works when dual-booting to Windows 7 or other recent Microsoft OS.

I think Tom Cruise and John Travolta may have introduced the Church to Hollywood accounting...

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary

I know how much revenue Apple makes from the App Store ($95 million of $25 billion for the last three quarters, last time I checked)... I read Gizmodo' RSS feed daily, and there was story just last week - Jesus Diaz did a nice info graphic to represent it. In my opinion, the app store makes much more than that, since it makes the iPhone that much more desirable. Having the most apps makes your platform very successful, just look at Microsoft. Anyway, I stand by my point. Taking on Amazon and getting into the eBook market through through the iTunes store would be a great move for Apple.

The only reason I can see Apple doing any kind of tablet would be to get in on the eBook market. Just like the App Store, it would integrate directly into iTunes and make them even more money. That's the sort of stuff that fits Apple's style.

The least expensive can-opener is actually Chuck Norris's fist.

I won't be changing your mind today... But, in practice the systems do work very well. The cool thing about spread-spectrum modulation is its insane ability to track through insane external interference (that's part of my job as a test engineer, to jam radios and see how they behave). And whereas FM uses one frequency per channel, 2.4 can stuff in thousands on the same frequency and still get decent SNR on each one. Spread-spectrum is in almost every way superior to FM. So some kid turns on a 72 MHz radio with your same frequency, and your plane falls out of the sky. That has never, ever happened with a DX7 or FASST system. As for the 2.4 GHz band being polluted, luckily everything on the band is low-power and hopefully you're out in the middle of a big field.

Also, Futaba's FASST technology has been around for 15 years. Like I said, the pros have been using it long before the hobby guys got into it.

Get real, this is 2009. Spread-spectrum RC radios have had quite a few years to mature, not to mention that it's simply a better modulation technique than FM. Check out the Spektrum DX7 or the new Futaba stuff. I fly my helicopter setups with a DX7. There are people in my town that fly $15,000 jets them. Oh, and a lot of RC aerial photography in the movies have used the technology for at least a decade now.

Can you put that pickle analogy in the form of a car?