Definitely a life goal unlocked! Lurked for a long time using a 40lb aluminum PPC box before officially signing up. I still check in on a regular basis.
Its good to see the old regulars check in once in a while.

Congrats on keeping the webpage up. Its always great to see peoples exposure and individual experience in computing hardware (my favorite) and software.

Need a place to keep the sauce packets.

This is why they needed to be divided up between the OS and the applications

My first year hybrid 2007 Camry hybrid would not start if the 12 battery was dead. Had a full 600v NMH battery and the damn miniature 12v battery stopped it from starting up. Looks like nothing has changed..

Maybe shortwave will become popular again.

Fact is this team should have been on scene 9 months ago. Whatever progress or resistance they are receiving now is less than what could have been achieved if this team was on scene last year.

Who would be fool enough to shout out to anyone within listening distance without knowing who it was? /s

You know...If the original sentence in Microsofts' monopoly trial stood. There would have been a Microsoft OS division and a Microsoft Apps division.

Microsoft OS division would have been all over the ARM platform for an OS. Over the years, there would have probably been others as well. Apple HW, alternate x86 platforms, who knows.

And MS Office and Outlook would be on everything as well. Years ago.

Still think it would have been a Plus + Plus for users and all.

So now its not how much you practice and train but how well you code.

Perfect example! If the company was broken up into the OS group and the Application groups the apps group would have had this on iOS from the beginning. Money to be had by all.

The OS group would have had Windows on just about everything including ARM years ago as well.

How many blocks do I have left?

Its interesting when you hear about countries and their uprisings the news talks about how they Twitter to get the word out and lately countries like Iran try to seize their internet so as not to allow these protesters to get the word out. With countries trying to control what is getting out to the real world the fall back position just might be old school Ham Radio.

"You can't stop the signal"

This is just Steve Jobs creating an "appliance". He has tried to implement this before on a general computing type of plaform with failure.

The iPAD is probably a better fit for it. And yes, Mac OS X would definitely not be held to that type of closure.

Move along, nothing to see here.... Buy the appliance or buy a laptop.

Do it the old fashioned way... Ham radio operators have been communicating world events from one continent to another for decades. ( learn it for when twitter fails)

No Firewire option? First Apple now Slashdot. Firewire is surely dead. :-P