Not necessarily. Memories aren't typically built from single transistors. For example, if you used 2 transistors, "1" is when one of the transistors is charged, while "0" is when the other transistor is charged— the electrons are basically moved from one to the other, so there's no difference. (Ignoring all kinds…

We're not talking about photons... electrons have mass.

C'mon folks. E=mc^2 says the difference in mass in a full vs. drained battery is pretty miniscule. (Mass is a pretty good proxy for weight here.)

So, why does a block of 1s weigh more than 0s? This might depend on the type of transistors used in the memory.

Unless I'm missing your intent, you *do* realize that The UNIX Haters Handbook is more satiric than serious?

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss dmr's accomplishments. C was written to be small, fast, and portable. The fact that it's still in use today speaks volumes about its usefulness. Many "modern" languages can trace back to C, and even those that can't were invented to "be better than C" in certain programming…

I see this sentiment a lot. I need someone to explain it to me.

What's hard to understand is that he'd still tour but give so little to fans. People pay money to see the legend; at least give them something to remember other than "he wasn't even trying".

Nice. I remember lusting over Altairs and IMSAIs when I was in high school. I didn't buy a computer until after I graduated from college— an Apple ][+. I did a lot of software and hardware hacking with it. My first mac was a IIcx, and I did a lot with that one, too. I've owned various other Apple products over…

You're right, that was harsh. I don't agree that it's their own fault. I have personally worked on some technologies that deserved to see the light of day, but were cancelled for business reasons or whatever.

Same here— I replaced the XP partition on a triple-booting Dell Mini10v with this (Mac OS X, Open Solaris, and now Win8). My solution was to turn off Metro (registry hack; google for it), but then it's kind of a "what's the point" exercise— it behaves very much like Windows 7, otherwise.

Found this with a little googling:

I agree, but systems need to be regularly tested. If a failsafe doesn't work, what's the point of it?

maybe not... I'm interested in hearing how you use each one.

Just because it's an older way of doing things doesn't mean it's no longer useful. Unlike others below, I have no issues with iTunes, and syncing with it is pretty effortless.

I don't leave anything on the desktop, whether it's mac or windows. Documents go in document directories, apps go in the Applications directory, etc. Stuff I no longer need gets trashed.

With all due respect to Linus Torvalds, how about Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, et. al. that wrote the original Unix (along with the C language)?

Yeah, a lot of Microsoft is *still* fixing his bugs.

Not sure what version of dd-wrt you looked at, but I'm running v24-sp2 (12/24/10) mega, and it has bandwidth history and site survey.

Yeah, I see the resemblance... especially the porn star 'stache.