Ok, sure I'm busting an open door here on/. but I wonder (aloud) why does amazon or ebay ever need to have my credit card data on their db? To lure me into 1-click compulsion shopping? I'm not that stupid and of course I ALWAYS go for kart transaction style and still, it irritates me that amazon doesn't ask me for my visa or shipping every time or better, routes me to visa.com with a session code on visa's servers.
An estore shouldn't need to keep my CC, personal bio and address at all, on the same tables. Can't they profile me just as well during the transaction query anyway? Shipping data shouldn't last for more than what's necessary to print the invoice or at most be tied to an anon account; credit data shouldn't transit on man in the middle servers, even if legitimate. In the future we'll all have asymmetric smart cards and convenient slots on our digital digestive terminals but until then, CC data should remain on visa's servers and everyone else just receive a boolean + return code... if there's one sound and valid claim for exclusive copyright claims this is it. Hey, I just invented a new technology for secure transaction and customer protection... call the USPTO...
I'm getting sick of this 10% market share argument. Ok the fraction of deployed boxes across the whole damn world may be 10% but how many of them are plain ATMs, cash registers, glorified dumb terminals for office routine, simple household web surfboards. Unless I'm MS selling Office I want to cater for the target niche I intend to fill, however large it is. I don't give a rats ass if the application I'm building supports the most popular platform of the planet when it's not as dominant in the field I cater for; what do I care if Joe Aol could run my app on his basement Dell when I'm 90% sure he'd never install or even imagine it's existence. I'd be an utter fool if my app didn't support a popular platform in the segment I develop for; ok Windows is everywhere, so it's a safe bet but it'd be stupid to ignore the mac if my potential user base was 20-30% macs. Unless you're MS, you always develop for a minority...
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... as a herd of corporate lawyers stumble against each other to file a new non obvious technology: drag & drop... but on the internet!
It doesn't take a lot of imagination to realise just how this could revolutionise the Web experience. Drag and drop products into a shopping cart. Drag the shopping cart to the checkout icon. Moving money around bank accounts in some integrated internet banking application. The possibilities are huge.
Well, aren't we all today at the mercy of the vendor. TCP as you say does allow BIOS level OS lockdown (oh, wouldn't Microsoft just Love that... even better than the confidential licence that killed Be) but today we're already screwed by proprietary closed source drivers and unspec'd formats that so much impedes the Linux on the Desktop experience. Also, once the file is on your disk how can it force the OS to prevent access from unauthorized programs, Spotlight flags? Listen, as an admin I'd love a system that did some sort of ultimate runtime Tripwire on my servers; as a user I'd thoroughly hate it... But... complicated systems have many points of failure, people don't tolerate excessive DRM as iTMS demonstrated and most importantly, when there's no way out just forget about it and move along: CD sales continue plummeting, why? Is it P2P or the fact that you can get 3 recent DVDs for the price of one CD? when goods become an overpriced piece of stinking crap consumers walk away, it's not that we have infinite disposable income...
yeah, but they make blunders too! I can't sync my bloody phone for the life of me... I figured it out on 10.4.1 but for some arcane reason 10.4.2 snafu'd iSync with my lowly Moto GSM. Apple is very cool and all but sometimes they should fix things and don't touch them any more (how 'bout publidhing a damn API Apple?)
Microsoft's value isn't in the SW but in the stranglehold. That's the single asset keeping the company afloat by only selling bare SW, no HW, no Consultancy; see MS trying to penetrate stranglehold driven markets like [RI|MP]AA's. Shure, Apple's asset is OSX, but per se it wouldn't be profitable unless it's the value add to a solution (the HW platform) sold for a good profit (as you said). Speaking of the three compaines mentioned in the thread, each one is cultivating it's own locked in turf: MS - consumer stranglehold (sw lock in) IBM - platform deployment consultancy (complexity lock) APL - platform all-inclusive (hw lock in)
I wish APL good luck, MS needs to die a quick death and UNIX is to become THE commodity OS layer. At that point Linux could become a viable consumer market for smaller companies like RH, SuSE or whatever.
except that IBM went for shopping and bought Price Waterhouse Coopers and as far as system OS software they're EOLing AIX for Linux to externalize the platform cost (or share it in a community sense... god I dig Eclipse!) SW per se is a burden, Jobs knows it and doesn't even dream about this shit. (although I could swear on OsX and if things get along in a nice, compatible, open, elegantly engineered way, it'll become a very good and viable Corporate platform, and it'll be there sooner than Linux, even to my surprise... I mean, look at the 10.2-10.4 delta)
As far as I know the inmate population is accounted for as 'employed'. US inmate population is in the 1 million range isn't it? Economic slump = lower living standsrds = increased crime rate = tougher laws = increased inmate population = lower/stable unemployment... Heh! cunning...
Speaking of Germany: the country has done extremely well for decades. It has one of the most advanced mechanical engineering industries of the world and it's economy has always been the driving point of the whole contintent. Things started to wobble whith the reunification but let's be real, it's like suddenly running with a dead horse on your back. Yet they're still doing fairly well and shurely much better than other countries like Italy. You see, unions or high salaries are not a problem (what's wrong with high school teachers affording Mercedes Benz cars?) as long as they contribute to the sustainment of a market loop. The real point isn't about crushing labour, it's about taking responsibility and creating value add rather than going for a hit and run.
Italy for example is the worst example of antieconomic administration ever: entrenced 'corporative' unions that blindly protect privileges granted by unscrupulous policians for clientele sustainment; credit martket held hostage by individuals (yes, individuals... not even interest groups or boards) playing power games amongst themselves rather than just selling capital to investors.
Unions just represent part of the stakeholders, they're not bad per se. Of course in China, India or S America one can completely ignore them and eat the workers' cake but that doesn't mean being profitable, it's theft.
Eventually you have to admit that there's nothing bad in paying for labour as it produces the value add you sell and probably consumes it too! The point is going for the value add, there's nothing worse than stagnation with high salaries. Like sharks, economies have little if no buoyancy, if they stop swimming they sink.
Such as this?. Move along, the Far West is gone, get it over. There's a lot to gain in teamwork (not the corporate football rethorical tripe) and being part of it doesn't mean you'll die a terrible comunist death. You're paranoid...
Yeah, like the beeb site. In spite of going in lo-bw mode it was completely/. for hours. p2p is the legitimate kin of the original "web" concept. These 40-50 yo execs grown up on broadcast trying to force this perspective onto the web are severely damaging it. Hey, some time ago there was a picture of the internet's webbyness: An onion like ball with just a few (some 10s) fat routers in the middle... bad... bad... I remember when 9/11 struck out whole academic network crawled to halt (apparently, the core of it was in the Towers) and I had (yeah, well... not that I enjoyed it) to move on tv broadcast to watch the feed. We want a reliable distributed proxy network... no, we need one.
Excuse me? Let me minimize Eclipse (yeah, fool) for a minute and answer to your jab. I'm a long time Linux tinkerer and cheap sysadmin so bash and tar -xzvf *.tar.gz doesn't scare me at all (that's why I switched to OS X in the first place). I did download the friggin' tarball or zip or whatever and did run the bloody jar... only to get a stupid "Platform not supported!" box. If you had enough neurons to _understand_ what I wrote you'd easily understand I was criticizing the authors of the program for screwing portability with some JNI (Java Native Interface... google it will you?) targeting Windows and Linux. Then I drew the analogy with.NET calls to native Win API that have the same effect on code portability. Do you expect all mac users are drooling fools? Mods, don't nuke his post... it's so ridiculous it's actually funny... so... back to my Java coding...
... so long for cross platform compatibility. Had it been SWT based I'd be more forgiving but supposedly it's swing based. Ok, so what was so un-java to require a compiled.so for it? Attachments? Mime helper associations? crypto? S-I-G-H, repeat after me: "Java is not.NET"! I'm still waiting for an email client that manages IMAP ACLs... (and evolution is the only one that does LDAP directory editing... grr!) I was curious to see if this java MUA did but (sigh), I'm a poor soul on a Mac, in a java-cross-platform-except-for-anything-but-M$-Lin ux... go figure...
No I mean a workforce that has no knowledge whatsoever of it's fundamental rights and happily slaves away 147/day 7days/week, no unions, no medical care, no sociality other than the other slaves living in the chicken pen next to the factory building. Like those building the pharaoh's pyramid. The most depressing thing is that these people keep living under the same stranglehold even as (illegal) immigrants over here; some of these sweatshops got busted and these pour sould were sleeping on the same sewing bench they spent 18 h/day. It's more like Stockholm syndrome I believe.
Ok, fine;-)/. is full of grammar nazis always pestering anyone making the slightest mistake so I assumed your comment was one of them. Peace, but learn the use of smileys... they help a lot, especially in these cases. I was thinking about a word expressing something being "choked" as in restrained from a vital attribute of human social interaction. the italian "ma va' a morì ammazzato" is roman slang (but understood all over Italy) that literally means "go get yourself killed" but has the gravity of a lesser "get lost"; so it's not particularly offensive or rude and it's use is not considered provocative.
Excuse me for inconveniencing you to the point of replying to me. As you may have noticed by the sig and the first sentence of the post I'm italian. Shure, I undersand spoken and written english rather well for the average italian, to the point that I'm better described as bilingual. Yet English is not the language I use every day and often I have an unpleasant feeling like having the right word on the tip of my tounge but not finding it. So I'll have to resort to my own language in saying:
I have this horrible feeling; I'm sorry if it sounds xenophobic or racist, over here in Italy there's an ongoing campaign to blame chinese imports for our faltering economy and I don't want to sould like I'm supporting it. China's economic relevance is growing at great pace, huge amounts of investements pour into this country and nascent market. Corporate executives visit China and literally break into tears at the discipline and chockedness of the workforce. In the early '900 Italy's capitalists experimented with going without a liberal government; they chose fascism. A totalitarian regime that while touting a better form of socialism essentially used brute force and liberty suppression to coerce the population and stamp out dissent in favour of the priviledged. Today, I read about China, about our investors moving their operations in China, about these condescending corporations; I can't get this idea out of my head, that the CCP and investors from all around the world are trying the same trick. "What if there is a more efficient system, a social organization more attuned to corporate operations instead of this old, kludgy and costly democracy?" I hear them asking. Corporations have gone supernational for many years, during the Cold War they had a political restraint on how much they could go without breaking ties and embrace the "enemy". Today there's no such thing; the world is a giant supermarket where these amoral entities can choose what best suits their business plans and are now voting with their feet. It's depressing to see a billion human beings made to bear part in a global experiment without benefiting from it, and to fear that sooner or later we'll be told to live by the same rules...
... a là Hackers, that's bad ju ju. Anyone reading it will get this picture of Angelina Jolie naked on the kid's bed as the SWATs rammed the door. Many, many, more would be hackers tonight...
Employment in general may not be voluntary (for very long, anyway), but in specifics it is. You can choose where to work, as long as they will have you. I can quit my job tomorrow. It would hurt the company, and cost them a lot of money, but it is well within my rights. They can also lay me off tomorrow, which will put me out on a limb, but is well within their rights. True, but it's also the best way to build up perfect paranoia. Rules can be tough, bloody tough... some night want to play the game and get a big reward but many don't really care don't they? Imposing grand cynical "it's the game man!" on people that just want to get along doesn't sound very fair. Shure, tiny men don't fit in a Grand Vision but most of the grunt is done by people that put their values somewhere else. You can't expect them to play by your CxO rules, they're not CxO, never will be, don't really care (except for the paycheck). Even little Napoleons have to pay the soldier's due, and can't get rid of them adlib; unless you don't want unions striking or rabid gunners running around your office... not everyone can or wants to handle stress...
very true, a mini is a hell of a cool device but I only wish for someone to discover an unfinished header port on the mini's logic board and find out it's a JTAG. Now, that'd make the mini the most 'leet toy ever (it makes debugging a live OS the same as with your user level app... but you can mess with the ram, chipset, CPU, rollback contexts, like the CPU light panels on '70 room sized mainframes... wet dreams... wet dreams;-) )
Oh cry me a river! Listen, I'm italian, I live in Rome, I can see S. Peter dome from just about any place I hang around... I'm not anti-christian just as long as the particular christian before me doen't condemn or despise me for not being a good, moral, faithful choir boy. christian fundamentalists, are a totally different bunch of idiots; akin to the kind of rabid muslims the media likes to throw on the frontpage. For comparison take the Army and some fanatic militia. Can you see the difference? Good...
Now, Mr. Thurrot's campaigning for Microsoft is substancially analogue to christian fundamentalists militance. The same staunch, aggressive acritical commitment to some wild, universally (even by market professionals, be it Windows platform consultants or Priests) disputed claim. Witness, after Scientology, the birth of the first Minister of the Church of Microsoft.;-)
Oopsie, stacks are a Patented UI concept (guess what? Apple...) Wonder if Microsoft licenced it or just ripped it off on the basis of "it's cheaper to litigate until exhaustion"... BTW, UI patents what a stupid thing... in any case we know Microsoft's algorithms will suck so bad that nobody will ever dream this search tool will be useful in any way;-)
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Ok, sure I'm busting an open door here on /. but I wonder (aloud) why does amazon or ebay ever need to have my credit card data on their db? To lure me into 1-click compulsion shopping? I'm not that stupid and of course I ALWAYS go for kart transaction style and still, it irritates me that amazon doesn't ask me for my visa or shipping every time or better, routes me to visa.com with a session code on visa's servers.
An estore shouldn't need to keep my CC, personal bio and address at all, on the same tables. Can't they profile me just as well during the transaction query anyway? Shipping data shouldn't last for more than what's necessary to print the invoice or at most be tied to an anon account; credit data shouldn't transit on man in the middle servers, even if legitimate. In the future we'll all have asymmetric smart cards and convenient slots on our digital digestive terminals but until then, CC data should remain on visa's servers and everyone else just receive a boolean + return code... if there's one sound and valid claim for exclusive copyright claims this is it. Hey, I just invented a new technology for secure transaction and customer protection... call the USPTO...
I'm getting sick of this 10% market share argument. Ok the fraction of deployed boxes across the whole damn world may be 10% but how many of them are plain ATMs, cash registers, glorified dumb terminals for office routine, simple household web surfboards. Unless I'm MS selling Office I want to cater for the target niche I intend to fill, however large it is. I don't give a rats ass if the application I'm building supports the most popular platform of the planet when it's not as dominant in the field I cater for; what do I care if Joe Aol could run my app on his basement Dell when I'm 90% sure he'd never install or even imagine it's existence. I'd be an utter fool if my app didn't support a popular platform in the segment I develop for; ok Windows is everywhere, so it's a safe bet but it'd be stupid to ignore the mac if my potential user base was 20-30% macs. Unless you're MS, you always develop for a minority...
... as a herd of corporate lawyers stumble against each other to file a new non obvious technology: drag & drop... but on the internet!
It doesn't take a lot of imagination to realise just how this could revolutionise the Web experience. Drag and drop products into a shopping cart. Drag the shopping cart to the checkout icon. Moving money around bank accounts in some integrated internet banking application. The possibilities are huge.
Well, aren't we all today at the mercy of the vendor. TCP as you say does allow BIOS level OS lockdown (oh, wouldn't Microsoft just Love that... even better than the confidential licence that killed Be) but today we're already screwed by proprietary closed source drivers and unspec'd formats that so much impedes the Linux on the Desktop experience. Also, once the file is on your disk how can it force the OS to prevent access from unauthorized programs, Spotlight flags? Listen, as an admin I'd love a system that did some sort of ultimate runtime Tripwire on my servers; as a user I'd thoroughly hate it... But... complicated systems have many points of failure, people don't tolerate excessive DRM as iTMS demonstrated and most importantly, when there's no way out just forget about it and move along: CD sales continue plummeting, why? Is it P2P or the fact that you can get 3 recent DVDs for the price of one CD? when goods become an overpriced piece of stinking crap consumers walk away, it's not that we have infinite disposable income...
yeah, but they make blunders too! I can't sync my bloody phone for the life of me... I figured it out on 10.4.1 but for some arcane reason 10.4.2 snafu'd iSync with my lowly Moto GSM. Apple is very cool and all but sometimes they should fix things and don't touch them any more (how 'bout publidhing a damn API Apple?)
Microsoft's value isn't in the SW but in the stranglehold. That's the single asset keeping the company afloat by only selling bare SW, no HW, no Consultancy; see MS trying to penetrate stranglehold driven markets like [RI|MP]AA's. Shure, Apple's asset is OSX, but per se it wouldn't be profitable unless it's the value add to a solution (the HW platform) sold for a good profit (as you said). Speaking of the three compaines mentioned in the thread, each one is cultivating it's own locked in turf:
MS - consumer stranglehold (sw lock in)
IBM - platform deployment consultancy (complexity lock)
APL - platform all-inclusive (hw lock in)
I wish APL good luck, MS needs to die a quick death and UNIX is to become THE commodity OS layer. At that point Linux could become a viable consumer market for smaller companies like RH, SuSE or whatever.
APL overvalued? My ass... I'd buy
except that IBM went for shopping and bought Price Waterhouse Coopers and as far as system OS software they're EOLing AIX for Linux to externalize the platform cost (or share it in a community sense... god I dig Eclipse!) SW per se is a burden, Jobs knows it and doesn't even dream about this shit. (although I could swear on OsX and if things get along in a nice, compatible, open, elegantly engineered way, it'll become a very good and viable Corporate platform, and it'll be there sooner than Linux, even to my surprise... I mean, look at the 10.2-10.4 delta)
As far as I know the inmate population is accounted for as 'employed'. US inmate population is in the 1 million range isn't it? Economic slump = lower living standsrds = increased crime rate = tougher laws = increased inmate population = lower/stable unemployment... Heh! cunning...
Speaking of Germany: the country has done extremely well for decades. It has one of the most advanced mechanical engineering industries of the world and it's economy has always been the driving point of the whole contintent. Things started to wobble whith the reunification but let's be real, it's like suddenly running with a dead horse on your back. Yet they're still doing fairly well and shurely much better than other countries like Italy. You see, unions or high salaries are not a problem (what's wrong with high school teachers affording Mercedes Benz cars?) as long as they contribute to the sustainment of a market loop. The real point isn't about crushing labour, it's about taking responsibility and creating value add rather than going for a hit and run.
Italy for example is the worst example of antieconomic administration ever: entrenced 'corporative' unions that blindly protect privileges granted by unscrupulous policians for clientele sustainment; credit martket held hostage by individuals (yes, individuals... not even interest groups or boards) playing power games amongst themselves rather than just selling capital to investors.
Unions just represent part of the stakeholders, they're not bad per se. Of course in China, India or S America one can completely ignore them and eat the workers' cake but that doesn't mean being profitable, it's theft.
Eventually you have to admit that there's nothing bad in paying for labour as it produces the value add you sell and probably consumes it too! The point is going for the value add, there's nothing worse than stagnation with high salaries. Like sharks, economies have little if no buoyancy, if they stop swimming they sink.
Such as this?. Move along, the Far West is gone, get it over. There's a lot to gain in teamwork (not the corporate football rethorical tripe) and being part of it doesn't mean you'll die a terrible comunist death. You're paranoid...
Yeah, like the beeb site. In spite of going in lo-bw mode it was completely /. for hours. p2p is the legitimate kin of the original "web" concept. These 40-50 yo execs grown up on broadcast trying to force this perspective onto the web are severely damaging it. Hey, some time ago there was a picture of the internet's webbyness: An onion like ball with just a few (some 10s) fat routers in the middle... bad... bad... I remember when 9/11 struck out whole academic network crawled to halt (apparently, the core of it was in the Towers) and I had (yeah, well... not that I enjoyed it) to move on tv broadcast to watch the feed. We want a reliable distributed proxy network... no, we need one.
Excuse me? Let me minimize Eclipse (yeah, fool) for a minute and answer to your jab. I'm a long time Linux tinkerer and cheap sysadmin so bash and tar -xzvf *.tar.gz doesn't scare me at all (that's why I switched to OS X in the first place). I did download the friggin' tarball or zip or whatever and did run the bloody jar... only to get a stupid "Platform not supported!" box. If you had enough neurons to _understand_ what I wrote you'd easily understand I was criticizing the authors of the program for screwing portability with some JNI (Java Native Interface... google it will you?) targeting Windows and Linux. Then I drew the analogy with .NET calls to native Win API that have the same effect on code portability. Do you expect all mac users are drooling fools? Mods, don't nuke his post... it's so ridiculous it's actually funny... so... back to my Java coding...
... so long for cross platform compatibility. Had it been SWT based I'd be more forgiving but supposedly it's swing based. Ok, so what was so un-java to require a compiled .so for it? Attachments? Mime helper associations? crypto? S-I-G-H, repeat after me: "Java is not .NET"! I'm still waiting for an email client that manages IMAP ACLs... (and evolution is the only one that does LDAP directory editing... grr!) I was curious to see if this java MUA did but (sigh), I'm a poor soul on a Mac, in a java-cross-platform-except-for-anything-but-M$-Lin ux... go figure...
No I mean a workforce that has no knowledge whatsoever of it's fundamental rights and happily slaves away 147/day 7days/week, no unions, no medical care, no sociality other than the other slaves living in the chicken pen next to the factory building. Like those building the pharaoh's pyramid. The most depressing thing is that these people keep living under the same stranglehold even as (illegal) immigrants over here; some of these sweatshops got busted and these pour sould were sleeping on the same sewing bench they spent 18 h/day. It's more like Stockholm syndrome I believe.
Ok, fine ;-) /. is full of grammar nazis always pestering anyone making the slightest mistake so I assumed your comment was one of them. Peace, but learn the use of smileys... they help a lot, especially in these cases. I was thinking about a word expressing something being "choked" as in restrained from a vital attribute of human social interaction.
the italian "ma va' a morì ammazzato" is roman slang (but understood all over Italy) that literally means "go get yourself killed" but has the gravity of a lesser "get lost"; so it's not particularly offensive or rude and it's use is not considered provocative.
Excuse me for inconveniencing you to the point of replying to me. As you may have noticed by the sig and the first sentence of the post I'm italian. Shure, I undersand spoken and written english rather well for the average italian, to the point that I'm better described as bilingual. Yet English is not the language I use every day and often I have an unpleasant feeling like having the right word on the tip of my tounge but not finding it. So I'll have to resort to my own language in saying:
"Ma va' a morì ammazzato, va'!"
I'm shure you'll understand... if not, ask Google
I have this horrible feeling; I'm sorry if it sounds xenophobic or racist, over here in Italy there's an ongoing campaign to blame chinese imports for our faltering economy and I don't want to sould like I'm supporting it. China's economic relevance is growing at great pace, huge amounts of investements pour into this country and nascent market. Corporate executives visit China and literally break into tears at the discipline and chockedness of the workforce. In the early '900 Italy's capitalists experimented with going without a liberal government; they chose fascism. A totalitarian regime that while touting a better form of socialism essentially used brute force and liberty suppression to coerce the population and stamp out dissent in favour of the priviledged. Today, I read about China, about our investors moving their operations in China, about these condescending corporations; I can't get this idea out of my head, that the CCP and investors from all around the world are trying the same trick. "What if there is a more efficient system, a social organization more attuned to corporate operations instead of this old, kludgy and costly democracy?" I hear them asking. Corporations have gone supernational for many years, during the Cold War they had a political restraint on how much they could go without breaking ties and embrace the "enemy". Today there's no such thing; the world is a giant supermarket where these amoral entities can choose what best suits their business plans and are now voting with their feet. It's depressing to see a billion human beings made to bear part in a global experiment without benefiting from it, and to fear that sooner or later we'll be told to live by the same rules...
... a là Hackers, that's bad ju ju. Anyone reading it will get this picture of Angelina Jolie naked on the kid's bed as the SWATs rammed the door. Many, many, more would be hackers tonight...
Employment in general may not be voluntary (for very long, anyway), but in specifics it is. You can choose where to work, as long as they will have you. I can quit my job tomorrow. It would hurt the company, and cost them a lot of money, but it is well within my rights. They can also lay me off tomorrow, which will put me out on a limb, but is well within their rights.
True, but it's also the best way to build up perfect paranoia. Rules can be tough, bloody tough... some night want to play the game and get a big reward but many don't really care don't they? Imposing grand cynical "it's the game man!" on people that just want to get along doesn't sound very fair. Shure, tiny men don't fit in a Grand Vision but most of the grunt is done by people that put their values somewhere else. You can't expect them to play by your CxO rules, they're not CxO, never will be, don't really care (except for the paycheck). Even little Napoleons have to pay the soldier's due, and can't get rid of them adlib; unless you don't want unions striking or rabid gunners running around your office... not everyone can or wants to handle stress...
Very Insightful...
very true, a mini is a hell of a cool device but I only wish for someone to discover an unfinished header port on the mini's logic board and find out it's a JTAG. Now, that'd make the mini the most 'leet toy ever (it makes debugging a live OS the same as with your user level app... but you can mess with the ram, chipset, CPU, rollback contexts, like the CPU light panels on '70 room sized mainframes... wet dreams... wet dreams ;-) )
Oh cry me a river! Listen, I'm italian, I live in Rome, I can see S. Peter dome from just about any place I hang around... I'm not anti-christian just as long as the particular christian before me doen't condemn or despise me for not being a good, moral, faithful choir boy. christian fundamentalists, are a totally different bunch of idiots; akin to the kind of rabid muslims the media likes to throw on the frontpage. For comparison take the Army and some fanatic militia. Can you see the difference? Good...
nope dear... Apple PowerBook... ;-)))) love it....
Now, Mr. Thurrot's campaigning for Microsoft is substancially analogue to christian fundamentalists militance. The same staunch, aggressive acritical commitment to some wild, universally (even by market professionals, be it Windows platform consultants or Priests) disputed claim. Witness, after Scientology, the birth of the first Minister of the Church of Microsoft. ;-)
Oopsie, stacks are a Patented UI concept (guess what? Apple...) Wonder if Microsoft licenced it or just ripped it off on the basis of "it's cheaper to litigate until exhaustion"... BTW, UI patents what a stupid thing... in any case we know Microsoft's algorithms will suck so bad that nobody will ever dream this search tool will be useful in any way ;-)