Actually, on MacOS you don't throw the drive in the "bin" to eject them anymore (and it's been that way for some time now). When you drag a drive icon, the "bin" turns into an EJECT symbol so you drag it to the eject symbol to eject the drive. But that is just one way to do it. You can just right click and select Eject if dragging bothers you.

I found the culprit: https://youtu.be/9WYGdstEVJQ?t...

Oh no, no, no. Please, nobody 'fix' this. Let the market decide. Microsoft made this bed. Let them lie in it.

It seems that Microsoft has never heard the term "Fox guarding the hen house" which is the best way to describe the software developers being in charge of the testing.

I just love how companies that do stuff like this always like to have a list of "Core Values" of the company and they always list something like "Our People Are Our Strength". Ha!

I always just "lock" my luggage with a basic zip tie. Not meant to stop the TSA from getting in, but lets me know they did.

I see a business opportunity in drone snagging net cannons just for this purpose.

It would appear to me that Microsoft is the only one that wants Universal apps and it's because they can't get enough app development on their mobile platform. With iOS and Android dominating the mobile space, what developer really wants to invest in building an app for 3% of the market, which probably will never provide any return on that investment. The Apple Mac had this issue with Windows dominating the PC space making Mac app software lacking in comparison. But the Mac was the only other competition to Windows and had certain niche areas that kept it alive. WinPhone has 2 massive competitors that will always be considered for app development before WinPhone. And WinPhone doesn't have any sort of unique niche to keep it going. So universal apps is Microsoft's way of trying to keep some sort of competitive application parity with iOS and Android. And making the Surface "tablet" just a Windows laptop with a touchscreen and a bad keyboard is how they give it application numbers since, as the RT showed, a dedicated tablet OS didn't work out.

In the 70s, I had an entire chemistry lab in the shed behind our house because I liked science and was curious and wanted to experiment. I had things like calcium carbide rocks (makes Acetylene gas), nitric acid, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid (really all the components to make nitroglycerin and diatomaceous earth to turn that into dynamite), and lots of other chemicals and equipment. I was smart enough not make anything dangerous. Then I got turned on to electronics and started disassembling TV sets (mostly tubes in those days) for parts and to learn. If there would have been any abandoned factories or warehouses near me, I probably would have gone rummaging for junk parts. I could have easily been this guy; just following my curiosity with no ill intentions but my lab sure would look like I was some sort of terrorist. Now days with all the fear and the bombings, you can't explore your interest in science as easily as you once could.

And there is always Macs - although running a Unix-like OS on a machine that is also Unix-like might be something for the department of redundancy department.

Correction. OS X is certified as UNIX, it's not UNIX-like. http://unix.stackexchange.com/...

These games would make me say "Shut up and take my money", but only if they made a version for OSX and/or the iPad:

• Master of Magic
• Master of Orion 2:Battle at Antares
• Myth:The Fallen Lords and/or Myth 2:Soulbligher
• Avalon Hill tactical combat games such as Under Fire!, Squad Leader, etc.
• SSI Gold Box RPG games

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For MOO, Endless Space is close (I don't mind the 3D), but is missing the tactical combat and instead has a "pretty to watch" combat system that I end up skipping most of the time.

If anyone can point me to current OSX games that are close to these and are good, I would appreciate it.

As has been said here many times before. It isn't that companies can't get qualified American workers, it's that they can't get qualified American workers for the low wage they want to pay.