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Hello, Captain Huggies! Nice to meet you again. Grown men use separate development, testing and production environments, and of course every goddamn update from Comverse, Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, Siemens, SAP, Oracle, LHS or g-d forbid HP is thoroughly tested in testing environment before being pushed to production.
If you know anything about modern CPUs, mainstream is in $125 through $250 range, and there's not that much choice there -- most cost/power efficient ones are still Intel's Core i3 and i5 (especially 22nm i5-3xxxK ones), period.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-4.html
"CPUs priced over $220 offer rapidly diminishing returns when it comes to game performance. As such, we have a hard time recommending anything more expensive than the Core i5-2500K.. Even at stock clocks, it meets or beats the $1000 Core i7-990X Extreme Edition when it comes to gaming."
I'd still recommend 3470K over 2500K because of lower TDP though.
Sorry, I'll rephrase it myself: desktop OSes are increasingly reliant on graphics capabilities. And that's sad. On the other hand, modern OSes slowly move towards nanokernel-based architectures, which allow moving all hw/graphics processing to isolated less-privileged servers
like Western Digital My Passport 2 TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive WDBY8L0020BBKNESN ($199 on eBay, $190.86 at Amazon). Why didn't you include it in the review? Of course Samsung M2 (and S2 BTW) is very good drive, but you won't see 1.5TB and 2TB drives from Samsung in the nearest future IMO.
Similarly to Free s/w vs Open Source, there might be such a thing as Free API, which is free to be used by everyone, even by your direct competitors. Open API doesn't imply freedom of use. It just means that you can get a technical specification for the API, probably with declarations/headers/libraries.
IIRC the case includes not only API declarations (and these shouldn't be copyrightable, of course), but implementations too (some were copied verbatim, and this certainly amounts to copyright infringement (i.e. theft), by every account).
http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/comments_around_oracle_v_google
Why do you need to run vim on iThing when there's no gcc? I had ssh/vim/etc on jailbroken original iPhone, and it was just playing. There are no productive uses of jailbreaking anymore, except for thieves and liars:
* tethering (packet data you shouldn't have access to)
* pirating apps
* skipping ads when you weren't supposed to
* scanning for hidden SSIDs
* hiding/blacklisting calls and messages
DD-WRT, anyone? Some kernels build, some doesn't (OpenWRT even builds on MacOS X, if you mount buildroot on case-sensitive FS). You are at mercy of Some Vendor here. My advice is to only use H/W which has kernel genuinely packaged by Debian or demand complete source and build environment from The Vendor.
Yes I know about kvm/qemu/bochs and x86/ARM. But I need virtualization for my job, and have some knowledge about its memory requirements. Regarding the virtualizing x86 on ARM, I didn't try that yet, but it _may_ still be faster than constantly-swapping-WinXP-with-10-minutes-to-lauch-HPOVSD on 512MB x86 Linux system.
Toshiba AC100: Buy It Now EUR 306.12 -- $711.89 (3 items, the 306.12 one is the cheapest)
Raspberry Pi: Buy It Now EUR 140.00 -- GBP 145 (2 items plus 3 auctions).
I wouldn't dare to say that "there are plenty of AC100 available" but maybe if you are ready to spend several years on ebay waiting for occasional AC100 bargain this would look different...
No, Alcatel/Lucent/Motorola/Rockwell/Qualcomm/TI/Broadcom/etc do cross-license each other's patents (sometimes this happens after expensive court battles. Typical scenario: if number/value of company X's relavant patents is less than Y's, then after cross-licensing the relevant patents X pays some royalties or fixed sum to Y).
I had. With UX380n. Motherboard died after warranty period had ended, of course, but why the fsck anyway? It's pretty expensive kit, but not very well designed, it appears. Also, its USB port is underpowered and I messed up several DVD+R blanks using it with LG and Samsung burners. Why, Sony? Was it so hard to implement USB spec properly? Also: firmware for UX's fingerprint scanner is non-standard, custom made for Sony with incompatible interface; EDGE modem is locked; front/back camera switch doesn't work in Linux, Intel Core Solo's VT bit is disabled and there's no way to turn it on in BIOS; etc