You don't see anything. NeXTStep ran on the NeXT machines which had 68030 and 68040 processors. I said nothing whatsoever about the classic Mac OS. But since you think you have something to contribute to this conversation, you jumped the gun and totally failed to read and understand my comment, which was written in relatively simple English. I explicitly pointed out that the machines were "more than superficially similar to macintoshes". The intelligent reader would infer that I was not talking about macintosh computers, and therefore must be talking about some other machine based on a 68k processor. You Apple fanboys must think that Apple is the only one to ever use a Motorola chip, but those of us who have more history than you and have used and/or owned MC68k-based NeXT, Sage, Sun, Apollo, Amiga, Atari, and yes, even Apple computers (among many others) know that you should just be quiet while the adults are talking. You might learn something.

The horse carriage manufacturers did ok (or at least they had options). They just had to shift production around a bit to make farm wagons, add a motor and call it a truck, etc.

The folks that got screwed where the buggy whip makers. There just aren't many ways to modify a buggy whip into something that meets a need in another market.

What about those of us who consume energy drinks or soft drinks instead of coffee? Aluminum cans all the way!!!!!!111one

There is an achievement for submitting a story, but how about a counter for number of discarded submissions?

Moving the ISS is not such a crazy idea at all, and it's been proposed already by some smart people as a way to increase moon mission payoffs and reduce mission risks. A series of orbit boosts could eventually lead to a transfer orbit and lunar orbital insertion. Once in lunar orbit it would be at reduced risk of damage from orbital trash. Yes, sending up resupply and crew swapouts would be more difficult, but remember we would already be doing that for manned lunar operations so it's really not that much of a stretch.

Moving it to mars... Now that's a bit of a stretch but it might be possible with a propulsion efficiency breakthrough that could be powered by existing solar arrays or a bolt-on reactor. Still though, I think the idea of using it to support lunar operations might be an interesting idea especially as an alternative to letting it die after such a slow and expensive build-up with gross under-use as a science platform since it's been manned due to problems with the shuttle program.

The big question is: Once the shuttle is out of the picture, why keep the ISS where it is? Why not just put it wherever it is the most useful?

For his next trick, to highlight the need for stricter gun control laws, Bill Gates will fire a gun into a crowd while shouting "there is no reason why only poor people should suffer from gun crimes!"

I think Al Gore plans on having a volcano erupt in downtown Manhattan to emphasize that ecological disasters are not just some fringe pacific "ring of fire" problem, but I hear he's having trouble getting a permit from the city.

My work is IN an airplane... I drive a car to the location where my job happens to be parked when not in use, but my job is up in the air and I gotta be in the aircraft to be at work.

Almost forgot... you insensitive clod!

I have an Infrant ReadyNAS+ and it is not fast. It has a TON of features (most of which I don't use) but transfer speeds are pegged at approx 7% to 8% network utilization through a gigE switch even with jumbo frames on and an upgraded stick of ram for the NAS cache. I get the same transfer rates with 3 different computers of various types including an older laptop and a very fast gaming machine, and my transfer rates are fairly close to what others report, which tells me the bottleneck is the NAS device. There may have been some improvements in the device since infrant sold the product line, but you'll need to check their support forums to see what people are reporting with the newer ones.

If you don't need many of the easy to use features of most of the low-end NAS devices, you are probably better off rolling your own. Even using the cheap embedded raid chips on consumer mobos and what you would probably consider a bottom-end cpu (like a single core celeron) is going to get you faster transfer rates than many of the NAS devices on the market. There are a few ready to go home router linux distributions that ought to be fairly secure and feature-rich, and they will probably grossly outperform a consumer level NAS box. The only tradeoff will probably be power
consumption, however if you pick decent components, allow the cpu to throttle down, and let the drives halt when not in use, you can minimize the difference in power usage to the point where it might cost an extra $50ish/year over a purpose-built NAS device.

LDAP. I used Fedora Directory Services for a while between Solaris, Windows AD (synchronized accounts/passwords/permissions), RedHat, CentOS, Slackware, Gentoo...

I think you could be right. But that goes back to the beginning of this thread...

That was when it really hit me that I was going through lots of film for a non-professional.

Are you talking about the African American voters voting race or what?