So you can turn yourself up to 11?

Last time I looked, the aerial on my car was on the outside.

Canada?

Damn you, I was trying to.

Look at the duty cycle of your lawnmower and the car.

The lawnmower is used maybe 1 hour a week for two-thirds of the year, only in dry weather, and is kept under cover whilst not being used.

The car was probably used for 1-2 hours nearly every day, in all weather, and probably left on the street in all weather when not being used.

Given the same treatment, I wouldn't be surprised if the car lasted as long with similar maintenance (maybe a few replaced hoses more).

So have you ever been in a small plane "under positive control" (instrument flight rules) and very limited visibility?

Yes, I have. In the left seat. Any pilot who doesn't have the situational awareness to know where they are and what their "plan B" for deteriorating conditions (including lost ATC comms) shouldn't be there.

Just suppose that foreign crackers penetrated the air traffic control system or the power grid and either caused massive casualties due to lack of air traffic control...

Just how do you suppose they could cause "massive casualties" due to the lack of air traffic control? Every one of those planes has a pilot in command, who is quite able to fly the plane and land it safely without air traffic control lifting a finger. If flying IFR, the PIC also has a lost comms procedure to follow in case contact with ATC is lost.

Get a grip and become informed before playing along with the fearmongers' ludicrous Hollywood movie plot scenarios.
I suggest you start by reading "Risk - The Science and Politics of Fear" by Dan Gardner, ISBN 978-0-7535-1553-2.

So, does it work on MacOS X PPC yet? No, it doesn't, it's either 2.4.0 or wait for NeoOffice to put out a 3.1 patch.

I'm an ACM member an I do have Digital Library access. It's worth $200 a year to me to get access to years of research, including cutting-edge stuff, that may help me do my job better. It's also tax deductible as a professional subscription.

Where's the "+1 Hopefully" moderation when I want it?

Try a different brand of Halogen. I've replaced one bulb in two years, but this was after a period where new bulbs would burn out in 3-4 weeks. The common factor was all of the new bulbs that burned out were made by Sylvania. None of my Phillips or GE bulbs have burned out, so I just don't buy Sylvania anymore.

That's a stupid cheap shot.

I see a lot of good, original work coming out of Microsoft Research. They do some very good, very fundamental computer science research. I am an ACM member, and it has seems to me that a considerable number of the papers that I've read on parallel programming recently have had one or more authors from MSR.

No disclaimer required. I don't work for Microsoft, never have, and don't want to (they've asked). Their products constantly frustrate me (as do MacOS X and Linux, which I both use daily, in different ways). But I won't deny their contributions either through research or in the marketplace.

I would have been happy using the MacOS X OpenOffice 3.0 port...if an official version existed.

I'm using a PPC Mac, and the official download page for OO lists the latest version as 2.4.0. I believe there are alpha or beta ports on some other web sites, but that's not what the average user or the potential corporate user wants.

Forget about 3.1, how about an official port of 3.0?