Could be worse. We're working Saturday the 4th of July to cutover our in-house maintained system to an outsourced one that means the majority of us will soon be looking for new jobs.

Looks fantastic and is a heck of an improvement only if either:

- You have a paid TV service, in which case this mandated broadcast switchover has nothing to do with you, or

- You live in or very near the closest largish city so can get decent reception.

Try living way out in the rural boonies like my Mom and her husband. Even with a tower mounted antenna, they get blockiness, dropouts, pauses and stuttering that make it almost unwatchable. To add insult to injury, every time they re-orient the antenna to a different station/city, they need to "re-scan" for usable signals (yes, they could set them all in manually then not touch it, but you try explaining things like "channel 8-1 is actually on channel 9" to a 70 and 80 year old).

For them, this is not better than their old static-filled, but watchable, analog signal.

That and "niche" applications.
The only reason there is a Windoze box in my house is that my wife is a quilter. The current version of Electric Quilt (AFAICT) will not run acceptably under WINE. There is no reasonable FOSS equivalent.

Old comedy routine/song.

According to their FAQ:

Will my taxes go up because this project is so expensive?
No. The funds for constructing the fiber network come from bonds issued by the City of Wilson. Tax revenues are not being used to fund this project in any way.

This would be a boon to everyone except those with private jets.

...or working for commercial airlines....

Ok, how is parent a troll? He's right.

Most Americans I know are so lazy they'll circle the parking lot for minutes looking for a place in the first few rows instead of (*gasp*) walk from the far side, or even the middle of the lot.

Add in places like Chicago where it may be life-threateningly cold in the winter or here in Dallas where it's so hot in summer--even in the early morning that just a 10 minute walk will put you at work quite unprofessionally sweaty and there's no way I'm taking the bus that drops off about 10 minutes away though I cannot wait until they finish the rail line that will drop off across the street.

Ok, we have the PC OSes, of course.
We have the Amiga OS, ok.
We have Commodore OSes, ok, if you must.
We have TRSDOS, ok, for the few who used it.

Why no DOS 3.3 or ProDos?

Hard drives are not as fragile as you might think. I was running our tiny company's "data center" (3 consumer '486s, two HDs each, screwed down to a metal rack bolted to the wall) 35 miles from Northridge during the 6.75 Northridge quake.
Didn't lose a single drive.

May depend on the composition of the faults/rock.
The larger ones in Southern California definitely make noise. I always called it "grinding," but "roar" could also be an appropriate term.

And the rub there also is a modern 7x7 aircraft in is much lower for most of its descent than it is for its takeoff....

I sure hope you're being ironic.

I built my 1st Myth system by hand without one of the new "nice" installers. Using apt-get and Jarod's guide. I got 95% of functionality working in one evening on the first try. Then proceeded pulling my hair out for 3 months to get the $@%ing remote to work. Totally existing P3/450. Only new hardware was the PVR-350.
Getting it working should be simple. Making it "wife friendly," maybe not so much.