The dogs, or the neighbors, want to live there? ;-)

BTW, thanks for your kind words.

You know, as much as I loved my late Sister and my late Mom, I hardly EVER "talk to them". But I never, ever pass by the kitchen window (which looks upon where my two dogs are buried) without telling them they're "good boys", and/or "Daddy loves them", etc. And same thing when I pass by their graves (they're buried side-by-side in separate, home-built, quilt-lined "coffins"), I always say at least "Hi, babies!" to them...

Yes, it is a profound thing to be the instrument of death for something so innocent, loving and loved. A VERY profound thing. Even though I know academically that I was doing the right thing, you can almost NEVER know whether THEY feel it's "Time to Go"... And that is what tears me up, and will likely continue to tear me up for some time to come.

And even though we have gotten a new Mutt (all my dogs have been mixed-breed), this one a sweetie-pie male Pit Bull mix that was being abandoned by (yet another) next-door neighbor who "Couldn't take him with them...", and have already had dozens of heartwarming and funner-than-fun, laugh-out-loud moments with him, there is still a hole in my heart where my babies C.J. and Little Bit live on...

Are you kidding me, Barbara???

Yow!!! As someone who still has nightmares about the two pets (dogs) I have had to have euthanized, one with Osteosarcoma at 17 years old in 2009, and the other with Cronic Renal Failure and Adrenal Gland Cancer at age 13 just last July, something like that makes me insane...

At the risk of getting flamed for "Godwin-ing", I just thought they were a way-over-the-top animal protection group; not the ones who had the "Final Solution" to animal cruelty...

I think they will try it again with some version of the Surface Pro. Trust me, MS is full-steam-ahead these days with "Software As A Service".

Actually the dialog that would have popped up would warn that it was downloaded from the internet, and would have supplied a link to the URL.

LOL! You've made my day...

Mods: Parent is "Informative" in exactly what way?

And what of these mythical "Backdoors"? Isn't it convenient that the "Researchers" provide zero information on them?

As a user of both Windows and OS X, I would wholeheartedly agree.

Too bad Microsoft threw it away...

So, what you are saying is that the idea of One GUI To Rule Them All is a fucking joke; just like the "other side" is saying, right?

This just means your Mobile Device (which is always going to be more resource-starved than even the weakest Desktop) is going to be saddled with a bunch of Desktop GUI-cruft that it may never use, depending on the Application and User's Tastes. Because it ain't just a matter of Start Menu vs. Metro Tiles. It's a whole different paradigm.

And at least Apple is smart enough to know that. There have been some "leaks" from iOS into OS X; but if you look at them, it has been done in a very considered, and generally low-key way, largely to the benefit of the Desktop experience. Not what Redmond is foisting on the world. Simply no comparison. I'm not cheerleading Apple here; I am just saying that you simply cannot just shove a Mobile, Touch-Based UI down the Desktop-User's throat. And having a Mobile Device that has a schizoid UI that flips back and forth??? Yeah, Suzy Homemaker and Joe Sixpack are gonna dig that, yeahrightsure...

Yeah, something like 10 million of them converted just last weekend...

To another iPhone.

Idiot.

But seriously (and I'm not Trolling here) :

IMHO, Mobile Applications are, for the most part, very rarely directly translatable in either scope or purpose to Desktop or Server Applications; so what is to be gained by making the poor Developer have to be saddled with a Presentation Layer (GUI) that is an absolute Train-Wreck between Touch and Non-Touch paradigms?

I understand how they can share a common kernel and SOME Frameworks/APIs, and maybe even the (very) occasional GUI concept; but that's where it should end. But it doesn't.

Truth be told, I would bet that not one Application in 1,000 actually benefits more than 10% from a "Unified Codebase". The only product that looks to be designed with this in mind is the Surface Pro 3, And that is not the Game-Changer that Microsoft is touting it to be. Too heavy and expensive for a Tablet; and simply not good enough compared with other Laptops at the same price-point. They keep trying to compare it with Apple's entry-level ultraportable (the one that sacrifices many other things for the sake of "small"; but if you look at the pricing, it should be more-fairly compared with something like a 13 inch Macbook Pro, where these folks say that it loses hands-down.

Nope. I'll give MS some points for trying to rescue Windows 8; but they are suffering from the "Gone too far to go back." syndrome, and it's going to (continue to) bite them, bad. Really bad...

Redmond, Start Your Copiers!

Don't laugh, that's exactly what they are trying to mimic.

And 15 million more with CUPS Servers running, and possibly exposed to the internet.

Actually, it uses Apple's own creation, "launchd", which they Open Sourced.