You are so right... except for the font. Humans read a serif font about 20% faster and with less errors than a sans serif font so use Times instead of Helvetica (which btw. is not available on a std.Windows PC... Arial, Tahoma or Verdana are not good substitutes for Helvetica).
Microsoft does not support the majority of their customers because OEM versions are supported by hardware manufacturers. ...and, AFAIK, you can't buy extended support (from Microsoft) for OEM versions and the hw manufacturers are not required to provide extended support.
so, unless you are big business, you don't have any real technical support, "pls. reinstall and call back" is the best advice you are given.
I'm getting more proffessional support for Liunux from the Linux community and from paid Linux proffessionals than you can get for Windows from anyone! ...and Linux proffessionals do not tell you that you are using wrong hardware or running the wrong kind of Linux.
"The only unhackable computer is the one not connected to any outside network." It is much worse than that: the only unhackable computer is a black box with no real users on it.
"In place of BSODs, you just get to meet mister kernel panic instead." Much less freq... I've used OpenSuSE (as a desktop OS) for the past 5 years and never seen the kernel panic.
Back in the 1980'ties I visited a ship construction bureau at Burmaster & Wain in Copenhagen.. everyone there used HP CRT touch screens. When I've got my Powerbook G4 in 2000 and something I discovered the fun of multitouch...
...and this explains clearly why a CEO should not have a PC, the CEO should have a thin client on his desk and a portable thin client on the go. In fact everybody should have a thin clients on the desktop, the only reason for running fat client is if you are working in places where a connection can't be established.
I belive it is called a "Supervisor board" or "ILO", IBM and HP do provide dem for free together with their large PC servers and as an option for midrange PC servers.
"The question is whether the NIC can go into a power saving mode and be awoken by an even simpler device when a packet comes in." Yes it can, it is called Wake On Lan (WOL) and it has been a part of almost all NICs for almost a decade. You send a "Magic Packet" to the adapter using its MAC address... and magically you PC powers up. The point is probably to control a PC over longer distances and WOL can only be used on the same LAN segment.
"...but it also has a huge disadvantage - it does not run x86 programs." You are missing the point, this is only an issue when using Windows and the point is to get rid of Windows. There are already a huge amount of applications moved to other CPU architectures and many others need just to be recompiled. Yes I do know that it may not be "just recompile" but the Linux community is much faster to adapt than Windows community.
"WHEN will we have a practical HUD..." HUDs has been in pracical use for decades in military aircraft, primary in fighter and ground attack planes. They would have been in cars years ago but laws forbid anything that may obstruct the view out of the front window, they are not in use in commercial jets because they are not needed there. HUD's are not almost ready, they are ready, the world is not ready for HUDs (this is the usual problem with new technology).
...during WW2 ? I'm quite sure I've heard something about Lancasters modified to carry 10000kg bombs against big German u-boot & V2 bunkers. Those bombs were also ment to penetrate whatever they hit and explode. They were called "Earthquake bombs", there were two types: "Tallboy" and "Grand Slam".
You really think uncle Larry bought Sun just for the OS or Hardware or Java ? No, uncle Larry bought Sun because he now can be a complete paine in the ass for cousin Bill & cousin Steve. Uncle Larry bought a complete multiplatform office suite, a very competent dual platform OS and Java. Uncle Larry became cousin Bills & cousin Steves worst nightmare and that is why he bought Sun. Oracle just want to put Microsoft where they should be... somewhere very far behind Oracle.
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If Outlook is so fucking great why is it not ported to OS X ?
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You are so right... except for the font. Humans read a serif font about 20% faster and with less errors than a sans serif font so use Times instead of Helvetica (which btw. is not available on a std.Windows PC... Arial, Tahoma or Verdana are not good substitutes for Helvetica).
You may find free and secure alternatives to Windows at http://ubuntu.com/ or http://opensuse.org/
...I'm using Linux, OpenOffice, gimp, Inkscape...
...and my favorite game is OpenTTD (and yes I've got an original, legal copy of TTD).
"Take your fancy ISO characters..."
That will be "sexy UTF characters" for you, you insensitive clod.
If Microsoft owns a country it has to be Denmark. Here there are no doubt that Microsofts software is the best choice for everything.
Microsoft does not support the majority of their customers because OEM versions are supported by hardware manufacturers.
...and, AFAIK, you can't buy extended support (from Microsoft) for OEM versions and the hw manufacturers are not required to provide extended support.
so, unless you are big business, you don't have any real technical support, "pls. reinstall and call back" is the best advice you are given.
I'm getting more proffessional support for Liunux from the Linux community and from paid Linux proffessionals than you can get for Windows from anyone!
...and Linux proffessionals do not tell you that you are using wrong hardware or running the wrong kind of Linux.
"The only unhackable computer is the one not connected to any outside network."
It is much worse than that: the only unhackable computer is a black box with no real users on it.
...does it run Linux ?
..is dead, we can assume that MS do what they are best at: collecting patents for extinct technologies.
"In place of BSODs, you just get to meet mister kernel panic instead."
Much less freq... I've used OpenSuSE (as a desktop OS) for the past 5 years and never seen the kernel panic.
Back in the 1980'ties I visited a ship construction bureau at Burmaster & Wain in Copenhagen.. everyone there used HP CRT touch screens. When I've got my Powerbook G4 in 2000 and something I discovered the fun of multitouch...
That isn't especially healthy... come back when you are a little older, like 16 or 18.
...and this explains clearly why a CEO should not have a PC, the CEO should have a thin client on his desk and a portable thin client on the go.
In fact everybody should have a thin clients on the desktop, the only reason for running fat client is if you are working in places where a connection can't be established.
"Are there any non-apple routers that support IPv6 out of the box?"
If you need IPv6 routers why don't you just buy them from Apple ?
You can't. That RFC is for packet data. The pigeon carrying a flashdrive is a replacement for FTP.
I belive it is called a "Supervisor board" or "ILO", IBM and HP do provide dem for free together with their large PC servers and as an option for midrange PC servers.
"I want a thermonuclear device."
That'll be a little more complicated my son, but we can build a nuclear device like Little Boy on our kitchen table.
"And its a mac. What did you think? It's as far from a nerdy computer as possible."
Just because it is shiny and works ? It's areal UNIX you know, it can't get more nerdy than that.
"The question is whether the NIC can go into a power saving mode and be awoken by an even simpler device when a packet comes in."
Yes it can, it is called Wake On Lan (WOL) and it has been a part of almost all NICs for almost a decade.
You send a "Magic Packet" to the adapter using its MAC address... and magically you PC powers up.
The point is probably to control a PC over longer distances and WOL can only be used on the same LAN segment.
Your options are:
"...but it also has a huge disadvantage - it does not run x86 programs."
You are missing the point, this is only an issue when using Windows and the point is to get rid of Windows.
There are already a huge amount of applications moved to other CPU architectures and many others need just to be recompiled.
Yes I do know that it may not be "just recompile" but the Linux community is much faster to adapt than Windows community.
"WHEN will we have a practical HUD..."
HUDs has been in pracical use for decades in military aircraft, primary in fighter and ground attack planes. They would have been in cars years ago but laws forbid anything that may obstruct the view out of the front window, they are not in use in commercial jets because they are not needed there.
HUD's are not almost ready, they are ready, the world is not ready for HUDs (this is the usual problem with new technology).
Like Bill Gates statement from Win95 development: "If you can't make it work then make it look nice" ?
...during WW2 ? I'm quite sure I've heard something about Lancasters modified to carry 10000kg bombs against big German u-boot & V2 bunkers. Those bombs were also ment to penetrate whatever they hit and explode. They were called "Earthquake bombs", there were two types: "Tallboy" and "Grand Slam".
You really think uncle Larry bought Sun just for the OS or Hardware or Java ?
No, uncle Larry bought Sun because he now can be a complete paine in the ass for cousin Bill & cousin Steve. Uncle Larry bought a complete multiplatform office suite, a very competent dual platform OS and Java. Uncle Larry became cousin Bills & cousin Steves worst nightmare and that is why he bought Sun. Oracle just want to put Microsoft where they should be... somewhere very far behind Oracle.
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If Outlook is so fucking great why is it not ported to OS X ?