Ditto. I believe in law enforcement, but I also believe in corruption and it is everywhere. The "Trust me I won't " phrase has gone thru the Theory stage and is now pretty much at the Law stage of BS tag lines.

The whole 'plan' from Redmond with regard to OS's and hardware mystifies me. The OSs seem to be getting more and more dumbed down & incompatible and the hardware just doesn't have any juice in more ways than one (big price tab, limited usability, no nice). RT was dead before it ever even left the drawing board. Is anyone actually shocked that they are not fling off the shelves?

I admit to being the anonymous lurker myself sometimes, but this reinforces me to actually login when I hit /. daily and post instead of just read.

Does this mean that we can usher in a new wave of music piracy? Don't need any MP3s, just distribute the content as 3D printer files and drive up the demand for such devices and filament. :)

I get what the Apps Store is. Its a clearing house for Apps that makes it, in theory, easier for content providers to get their apps out there and earning then and Apple money. I also get how Apple would want to control the stability, code quality, etc of what they publish there, _however_, no where does the concept of an app store imply nor mandate that they also become the Morality Police for a content outlet. That's insane. I like Apple and their products, but I didn't sign on for them to be my moral compass. If there is something on there I don't like then the solution is simple people.. Don't freaking buy it! Sheesh.

Calif is already 617 BILLION dollars in debt, but they have the cash to drop 10M on Tesla? Maybe its some different form of economics than I grew up with, but I am calling BS on this. not that there are not many things in Calif that warrant calling BS on.

The 32 to 64 bit issue really isn't one, its a CPU, make the code run on it. Same rules apply for both MS and Apple. As you mention, the main issue is in the drivers which come in all flavors in the Wild West style when the controllable space is unlimited vs one that has been tested and approved. ie. you don't have 100 companies out there making motherboards with various chip-sets which require special drivers etc. I have spent many many hours in linux with different MBs trying to compile drivers to make machine X work. With Microsoft, its not so much compile drivers as it is try and find one someplace that works. On the Mac, I because of the way they do things, I have never had a driver issue. On all the built in hardware is a given, but even attached things, I have not had to think about I need to d/l some driver or something. Now back to the subject line, its interesting to think about, but I just don't see an ARM macbook in the near future, there are many issues with 'why' and 'how'. it could happen at some point, but I don't see a target market for it right now.

Dude is your hear so far up your rectum that its in your small intestine now? As opposed to what we have now/. Seriously? Whats the track record of Socialism?

A couple other possibilities.. BeerNutz in Fox Chapel or Sharp Edge??

For a very interesting take on physicists and economic modeling, take a listen to this lecture by Tom Whyntie of the LHC given at the Royal Institute. http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayEvent&id=897