My boss had the following reaction to the Longhorn piece:

What's really interesting is that "modular" code became the holy grail almost twenty years ago when object-oriented programming languages came into being. Are they really saying that Windows was never developed with any standards for how to piece those modules together? Sounds like it.

To which a co-worker responded:

Yep--pretty amazing, eh?

Apple pretty much tossed out the mishmash that Rhapsody was developing into in favor of building OSX from nearly the ground up (with help from the code from NeXT, which came with Steve Jobs attached.) about ten years ago now.

So how much of OS X is BSD and how much was created by Apple?

Mmm. Depends on how you define "how much."

If I had to guess, um, 35% BSD or so? But most of that was updated or tweaked. And the GUI stuff and, most importantly, coding APIs are all Apple.

t /talking mostly out my ass

Quick question: For an X-Box that specifies 100-127 Volt and 2.1 Amp - would a 65 Watt power source work, or just burn out?

Since W = V × A, the X-Box would requrie a 250W power supply.

Thanks. He's an art major, and I'm repressing most of my physics classes, so sometimes there's a bit of danger when we handle the electric conversions.

Since W = V × A

uh.

I before E except after C

Watts Volts Amps

I think I messed up my Palm charger by using it with a prong adapter in Kenya. Since my sister runs her computer off the adapter, and it worked with the iPod just fine, I was optimistic.

But I got just a wee bit of charge out of it when I got back.

At least I hope it's the charger and not something in the Palm itself.