I suspect FTDI's counter-argument would be:

It's mostly true. The early Gnome 3 annoyed me so much ("I want my clock on the bottom of the screen, dammit!") that I changed to KDE4 and XFCE (on low memory systems). KDE was infuriating, but once I'd figured out how to disable, e.g., Akonadai and Konqueror, I learned to like it. (Dolphin is good! Window title bars on the left edge is a godsend for widescreen use.) XFCE was similar enough to Gnome 2 for me not to notice it much.

I'm not sure I like the idea of rogue ATMs on the internal bank network.

That's at $0.05/kWh. In California the CPUC demands $0.34/kWh if you run more than 4 light bulbs.

The package man2html (installed by default on my server) had a cgi script starting #!/bin/sh. Urk.

Apple is somewhat special. See, for example:

Using wikinumbers, here are some relevent energy densities.

• Li-ion battery: 100 to 265Wh/kg (900 to 1900J/cm3)
• Supercapacitor: 0.5 to 15Wh/kg (no volumetric density easily obtainable).

Here's a press release from some company that claims 60Wh/l (~200J/cm3) from their research supercaps.

Here's the link.

Sorry: this chart is clearer. (Didn't really want the 10-yr bonds in there too!)

Here's a chart of 25 years of natual gas prices. See if you can work out why NG is not a panacea.

You need to feed your horses better. It's closer to 750W. ;-)

(33,000 ft-lbf per minute -> 745.7W.)

Every digital format is lossy compared with the analog source material. As long as you only lose the noise part, you can reasonably call it lossless. I think the analogy is more like:

• "Where can I find a good semi-freestone peach pie?"
• "The place over there does a great clingstone peach pie."