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Along with http://www.mammals.org/ . Still haven't figured that one out

Ah, you should be using mammals.org instead!

When you can explain MAMMALS!

Apple apologists are the most amazing bunch of people that I have ever encountered.

*Takes bow* Thank you so very much. We're all honored being the most amazing people you've ever encountered! :-)

When it was revealed the Apple sold a $300 super-walkman that needed a $100 exchange for a refurbished iPod & battery after a year,

Wait... Did you see a battery door on the floor model or something? At what point did the salesman tell you about a cheap battery replacement program? Oh, you thought, "I payed $BIGDOLLARS for something and now you owe me the world." Next you'll tell me the cigarette manufactures owe you a lung transplant because they only had a warning label on the pack for a couple of decades before your disease.

Now the some bleating shit about security patches: "Apple is not revealing exploits to protect us"

Would would your reaction be if Steve Ballmer got up and said "patches do not matter, we are withholding them for your protection"?

Apple is withholding patches? Wow, they must have money to burn, ya know, developing patches for the sheer joy of it. Every time a problem has become public, I have a fix via software update within a few days. What? They need to deliver a white paper on the exploit, complete with code examples and a root kit too?

The argument "Well, the CIA used NeXT, so OSX is secure" holds no water either.

Well, how about, "The core of the OS is wide open for your inspection and repairs, so knock yourself out." Show me the exploits.

I hear Steve Jobs is going to ask you to drink the kool-aid! Get your cup ready!

Flamebait.

Steve likes mammals.

In the future, your computer will:
1) Be a mammal.
2) Fight ALL the time.
3) Flip out and kill people.

You might not be so far off with #1: mammals.org

-ben

There is also a browser written by a little-known company found here. (www.mammals.org.)

I am not well-versed in the world of Linux, ( have my own allegiances but am being drawn to it more and more. Reading the article, it felt very clear to me that Linux will prevail (with a nod to William Faulkner's Nobel speech).

Consider a few quotes from the article:

The LinuxThreads implementation of the POSIX threads standard (pthreads), originally written by Xavier Leroy

A group at IBM and Intel, led by Bill Abt at IBM, released the first version of the New Generation POSIX Threads (NGPT) library in May 2001

On March 26-27, 2002, Compaq hosted a meeting to discuss the future replacement for the LinuxThreads library. In attendance were members of the NGPT team, some employees of (then distinct) Compaq and Hewlett-Packard, and representatives of the glibc team

On September 19, 2002, Ulrich Drepper and Ingo Molnar (also of Red Hat) released an alternative to NGPT called the Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL)

Perhaps others have already pointed this out, but I am newly impressed with the universal nature of Linux. The power of an operating system that *everyone* is interested in improving, and has the opportunity to improve, is awesome. Yes, Microsoft has tremendous resources, and very earnest, good-willed, brilliant people. But to improve Microsoft's kernels, you have to work for Microsoft. That means switching the kid's schools, moving to Redmond, etc. etc. On the other hand, everyone from IBM to HP to some kid in, say, Finland, can add a good idea to Linux. When the kernel's threads implementation is a topic for conversation at conferences, with multiple independent teams coming up with their best ideas, Linux is sure to win in the long run.

I'm struck by the parallels to my own field of scientific research: Yes, the large multinational companies have made tremendous contributions in materials science, seminconductors, and biotech. They work on the "closed-source", or perhaps "BSD" model of development. But it is the "GPL"-like process of peer-reviewed, openly shared, and collaborative academic science that has truly prevailed.

This company makes awesome silent PCs especially for musicians. They use low-power, high performance CPUs so you don't have to worry about BBQing your tender computer...

Darwnism at its finest...and you thought Darwin was just a clever open source port name! Ha! Don't believe me? Check out mammals.org! :-)

Apple having registered iphone.org doesn't prove anything.

Take a look at mammals.org . What does that mean? Apple is bring a new kind of mammal to the computing market?

Here is your solution for a Windows-free PC. Although it can run Office if you really need it to.

I know you won't believe me, so I've provided a link and here's another.

It is clear that Apple has had their eye on darwinism for a while now and I am not surprised by the name of Darwin as the Core of Mac os X.

However I disagree with the idea that "clearly" Apple is Satanic or any of the other remarks in the article.

All that needs to happen is some unlikely mammal needs to survive unnoticed while the dinosaur crumbles under it's own weight.