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Comment Re:features a light-up Apple logo (Score 1) 70

No thanks on the light-up Apple logo for me. I think it started with the Powerbook G3 (I had one, it was a great computer) and it was sort of obnoxious even then. I'm not paid to be a light-up billboard everywhere I go.

No thanks on the laptop touchscreen, either. I understand it on something like a Surface tablet -- almost -- but most of the time I used my Surface with a keyboard, like a regular laptop, and never touched the screen. I think ramming touchscreens down everybody's throats was just a gimmick Microsoft came up with, both to A.) convince everybody that Windows 8 worked equally well on laptops and tablets (it sure did); and B.) once again, everybody needed to go out and buy a new laptop, even though their current one worked and served their needs just fine.

Comment configuring switches, cables, and plugboards (Score 1) 95

Programming used to be a very different experience from the one we know today. In fact, the first programmers didn't write code at all; the six women who worked on the ENIAC, one of the world's first computers, at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946 did it by physically configuring switches, cables, and plugboards.

I am pretty sure there is a vim plugin for that!

Comment Re:we respect that (Score 1) 67

Fry's is a regional grocer that was bought out by the national conglomerate Kroger. Kroger is the largest grocery chain in the US. I live in one of the US's 2 biggest seasonal growth regions and the produce at the 'supermarket' is abysmal. For half of the year the farmers outlet is open and I can get super fresh whatever is in the fields. When the farms move to Salinas I am stuck with brown lettuce and shitty tomatoes, and green bannanas.

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