Crap, now where am I going to buy more inodes when I run out?

I am the proud recipient of an F in Cobol. I was taking assembler, graphics, and physics, and just couldn’t feature wasting my time on that (required) class. At that time made you use punchcards for your first assignment, ostensibly to show you how lucky you were that we now had terminals. Two years later when I *really* needed to graduate, I spent a total of about 8 hours re-taking it (+ sleeping through the lectures); no punchcards required. Got an A, and haven't touched it since.

My eye doc has warned me against it, because of just the sort of cautions others have expressed: that some very small number of operations go horribly wrong, and there’s no reversal possible after that. He & I are both older, and like all of us who live long enough, will face cataract surgery at some point. He says there’s an artificial lens in trials for cataracts that can both correct your near/far-sightedness and fix age-related inability to focus on near objects (presbyopia). I’ll keep wearing my gas-permeable hard contacts (have worn contacts for 42 years now) until it’s time to fix cataracts and my other vision issues in one fell swoop.

What Apple doesn't seem to realize, or doesn't give a crap about, is that many (perhaps most?) Java developers using a Mac are working on server-side applications, and only choose the Mac because they prefer the combination of superior hardware design and clean, elegant OS as the environment they do their work in. I couldn't give a crap about iOS development; I write apps that run on Tomcat/JBoss/etc. Once Apple no longer provides a reasonably solid JVM/JDK for their OS (and won't help Oracle take over support for Java on OS X) I'm down the road. Until the warranty's up, I'll just wipe my Macbook Pro and install Ubuntu (it's still a really nice, but pricey, laptop; best you can buy, IMHO); after the warranty's up, I'll start looking at what Sony, et. al. have to offer.