Betteridge's law

Sounds like year of the Linux Desktop to me !

The Running Man 2013 ?

Thats a tricky one to get out of. The only way to save face is to crash convincingly enough breaking some bones and the zune.

Ive been in US for 3 years, now both converting my visa to H1B and runnig green card process in parallel. I have to say, for a country almost fully populated by immigrants, the approach to immigration is surprisingly tiresome and convoluted.
If my company wasnt paying me so well, and going out of their way to keep me here i would have given up a long time ago.

>>Apple could potentially hire someone to design replacement microprocessors and build them at TSMC

One does not simply "hire someone to design replacement microprocessors".

Years of institutional knowledge, team experience, wealth of libraries and design tricks, professional relationships between key people and many other factors make this ambition vary hard to fulfill. It's possible, but it takes years - having a ton of cash to throw at the problem helps, but does not substitute for time.

Cyclists are nearly 100% of the time separated from both pedestrians and cars..

Every time i am in Amsterdam, or Copenhagen or Stockholm, walking around in the city i almost get hit by a bicycle. And thats totally my fault, not being used to so many of them. But no, they are not 100% separated from pedestrians. They should hand out helmets to unsuspecting visitors at the airport or something.

Not quite, or more precisely it very much depends on what do you want to use it for. Just one dumb example with far reaching implications - for the life of me, i cannot change my Sonos channels from my Linux machines, i actually keep a cheap chinese tablet for it.

Polaroid abuses patients ?!? Who goes to Polaroid with their livers problems, anyway ?

Weeelll, its no paradise on this side either. The communist government of Debian has watched over me using this device called "popcontest" for years.

if you did an objective comparison today of what is the easiest and best OS to run on your desktop/laptop for most people today, I truly believe Linux would come out on top.

Run, yes, but the point of computers for people is not running an OS - they actually want to use the damn things.

(trusted means your credit card is on file with Apple)
I have one of these, bought it at Safeway for online shopping.

Also, comparing a well tuned video device driver versus the (usually) hastily written Linux one is a poor comparison.

I read this as : Linux is not for critics, because hastily written graphics drivers that mostly suck is what you get with it ?

Actually. Solomonian solution would permit both of them to have 2 rounded corners, and gray finish.