VMWare Fusion is $70, Windows 8 is something like $100. Why buy a new computer at all?

My health.

No kidding... I loved the baroque aspects of the film version of Dune. Films are different creatures than books by far. One is visual, the other thoughtful.

My son didn't get his license until he was 18, and even then it was like pulling teeth to get him to take the test.

A mainframe is a single, large computer, used for multiple purposes. Typically, time sharing (many users on a single computer), or massive computations. Mainframes have extremely high-throughtput I/O subsystems for the individual processors to communicate over. Most supercomputers these days, however, are built with…