The mouse pad I use for my Ubuntu machine is an OS2 Warp one.
It works as well as I would assume Warp would still today.

It is a web mail client. I know that.

And the things on my feet are called "shoes". I can't cut bread with them and I should know better than to try.
I want a web mail client. I want it on my phone, my laptop, my ipad, my desktop, my powerbook, my .. .whatever ...
And no, I don't want outlook - I use that at work and its "just" a smart imap-like tool with integrated IM.

You can actually get the document they produced and see the names and organizations the individuals are from.
I did not count the unique schools but their are a bunch ... probably 36

the production of ethanol from corn requires less - and it is shrinking all the time - water than the production of gasoline from oil.
I live near the ogalalla aquifer so I share some of your concerns but from an overall water requirements standpoint, ethanol is not the boogeyman. Perhaps shipping the corn to a sea area and using desalinated water might be a better approach.

So you would divvy up your system into a
64Gb SSD C: and a
1Tb 7200 D:

blazing fast c drive, equivalent suck d drive
I would spend the same and get twice the capacity of a solution that on average ...is twice or more faster.
FOR EVERYTHING not just the c drive.
My photos are faster, my vmdk are faster, my compiles are faster, ... everything.

If you have a new Apple notebook it does not matter what the rate is - you can not replace them.
Lose the SSD and you have lost the Retina.

My desktop and 2 of my laptops are Lenovos. Up until this year my best/favorite devices. OpenSuse 12.3 and Windows 7 - 32bit & 64 bit.

I am writing this on a 3 week old MacPro 2.7 GHz, 512 Gb flash and 16 Gb ram ... and retina display. I'll be hooking it up today to an HP ZR30W so I get 2560x1600 AND 2880x1800 - my 50 year old eyes are in heaven. And I get more IOPs than my VPLEX or Nimble storage can deliver.

It is singularly the best workstation I have ever had in my life. And my experience covers everything from an Intel Z80 running CPM 30 years ago to racks of Sun Enterprise servers on Solaris 10. I used most of the AT&T 3B and the Amdahl stuff too. Lisa, Fat Macs and Multias were cool as well.

wanna dis it - sure, go ahead - you clearly don't own one. But its the best box I've ever had.

you would lose your ability to fly for 5 years.

wait the 15 minutes. It may be your ass I have to climb over on the way out of the plane.

You must not interact with Cisco gear.
The Nexus 7000s run Linux as their Supervisor OSes
The Nexus 5K .... ditto,
Storage platforms .....

Your comment that "regular" users can't do ..... whatever is immaterial when all users are the admin of the box.

By default how many Windows NT, 2K, XP, Vista, 7 users are administrators in a home/small business setting ? 100% ?
By default how many Linux users are administrators in any setting ? 0 %

Those 2 numbers kind of contribute to the issues with one and the benefit of the other.

http://www.research.ibm.com/

They used to have one of the most amazing IT geek magazines.

Uhhh,

No,

Some do, some don't.

Really ? Can you name me 3 ? And if you got gigE Internet you would be running on home-made wireless devices ? I get 60Mb business Internet on a 100Mb fiber, it costs my company about $4000/month. And how much is the gigE going to cost a month ?

So too did early windows 2000. I seem to recall it called itself NT 5 ( I ran it on DEC Multias

For clarification - the McDonalds hot coffee women did get a dramatically reduced amount of money. However before you pass judgement on her case you may wish to review the facts of the case. There was/were a reason(s) ( unknown by you ) that the jury initially awarded the large sum and it was not that their parking ticket was not validated that day at the county court house. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurants I will help you out with a line from the wiki . Liebeck's attorneys discovered that McDonald's required franchises to serve coffee at 180–190 F (82–88 C). At that temperature, the coffee would cause a third-degree burn in two to seven seconds. My home hot water heater was government limited ( I have to override the configuration with the vendor on the phone to get the proper instructions AND I need an updated thermostat ( I have a Rheem tankless ) to 120 degrees because any higher can cause burns. McDonalds was 60 degrees hotter. Read the wiki and then come back and say she did not deserve; all she initially wanted was the medical bills paid - for her skin grafts ( whooo, thats a fun thing to fake to collect some extra money if you are an 80 year old lady .... ).