To everyone calling bullshit:

This really happens, but it is assumed that Microsoft is doing some kind of A/B testing, similar to when they roll out updates:

I've never seen it happen on my PC (besides Candy Crush, which I could easily delete), but on two completely fresh / no MS Account Windows 10 Installs at my in-laws. The following games kept getting downloaded and reinstalled. It was really without user intervention on a completely fresh machine.

https://i.redd.it/5uvjgiyc7l50...

It amounted to roughly 1,2GB traffic on a 4mbit connection. Only disabling cloud content via registry allowed this to stop. Uninstall led to reinstall.

I disagree with your statement, because you are missing one thing: "The Modem" (however I'm limiting this statement to Europe, because I don't know the situation in the US)
In Europe you cannot buy isolated cable modems for Eurodocsis 3.1. The most you can get is a complete router with an integrated Eurodocsis modem, which, if you are lucky, you can configure into a bridged modem mode.

For your project to succeed and be the "be all, end all" solution, you would require a cable modem add-in card. This is something all the big router producers will never market, because they would cut into their own profits.

For DSL markets, isolated modems exist, but also here, you won't find open source solutions.

Well, it's a point of view, but not necessarily bad. Both points of view are valid:
Yours is:
a) Assume that processes which stay alive after logout are meant to be there, leading to a potentially unclean state after logout, if some random gnome/kde/etc. process did simply not exit
Systemd's is:
b) Assume all processes, which stay alive after logout are dead leftovers, always provide a clean slate.

Each has their up and downsides and I very much agree that the way the change was introduced was bad, because the release came without warning like a sledgehammer and changed existing behaviour. If screen and nohup were made systemd aware beforehand with a looooong introductory period and many warnings, this outcry would have been much much smaller.

When just looking at both options a) and b) without thinking about existing behaviour, I do think that b) is the better option. When logging out, I expect my system to be in a clean state and I, as a user, will never check for still running processes after logout.

Because of exactly what parent said:
AMD can provide unified memory (hUMA) with a decent GPU and a decent CPU on the same die. Intel cannot, nvidia cannot.
hUMA will not make your PC faster in general, but it will provide you with a feature, even a PC with 20 Geforce Titans does not have: Latency free data exchange between CPU and GPU.

It will make GPU processing more feasible especially on a small scale. I can't give you an example from gaming, but I can give you an example from my own expertise. When we simulate big proteins, we do it on a GPU. However, for small proteins, the latency overhead simply kills us. Processing on the GPU would be faster, but we need to copy back and forth all the time. We don't need faster GPUs, we need faster transfers. With hUMA: no problem.

Some posts above mine, people blame Oracle Java. I blame the updater.

My dad was hit by malware lately, which he got, because of an outdated Java on his system. He told me he always updated everything and blocked the install of everything else like toolbars. The last thing before he got the virus he remembered, was not allowing jusched.exe admin priviledges.

I get it: jusched mean java update scheduler and everytime it's run it asks for admin priviledges. First of all:
1.) This should be updated automatically by a package manager, hence I blame Microsoft
2.) If 1.) is not the case, it should at least be called JAVA UPDATE PROCESS
3.) It should display some kind of information before requesting Admin rights.

Not many people outside of Slashdot know what jusched.exe is. Updating needs to be automated. Actually: We should somehow take this into our own hands and provide OpenJDK for Windows also ourselves and get people to switch. Maybe even without the ASK Toolbar

I completely agree. As money is involved, the system will be gamed a lot. However you are not competing with a perfect system. You are competing with a completely flawed system, where misbehaviour is the norm and being published in the big magazines happens a) because your science is actually good (system works) or b) you have a bigshot name and can therefore already push articles over the initial review wall (system failed). Now this is all under wraps and nobody can see it (and it makes me look like a conspiracy nut), but with a system like the mentioned one it would be public.

I mentioned "diminishing returns" exactly because of what you said. If two people trade reviews, the first time they do their accumulated impact factor goes up by the full amount. If they do it again by 0.5... again by 0.25, etc. In other words it's healthy for you as a scientist to seek reviewers, who never reviewed your work yet. Reviewers could also be requested by the system at random (think Slashdot metamod). Public moderation systems can work as shown by slashdot comment moderation.

The only reason scientists publish in journals behind paywalls is because they need the "Impact Factor" of the journal to put the publication on their CV so they can get better jobs and / or recognition among their peers. It's a vicious circle and one that science needs to leave

A few scientists organized an Elsevier boycott last year http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/27/1322234/scientists-organize-elsevier-boycott and I had an idea back then, which I copy and paste here:
"""
My solution for this would be a public network of papers, where everybody can publish, read and ‘sign’ those papers. If you agree with a paper, you put your signature under it and the worth of this paper goes up. As your ‘worth’ goes up your signature also gains in weight, when signing other papers. Every paper gets a comment section, where reviews can be written and errors pointed out.

If a well known professor therefore signs your work, others will catch up to it. A ‘good’ paper will gain in publicity quickly due to being sent around a lot. One would also need to include a system of diminishing returns, as to avoid groups signing only their own papers. Ironing out these points of abuse will be the hardest part of this system.

The specification above only consists of four to five sentences and yet I would call it much more stable and open than the currently completely anonymous reviewing system.
"""

Yeah, shill on.
Windows Drivers are decent nowadays. OpenCL works better on AMD in my experience (some __constant memory bugs were just fixed recently for nvidia, see here: http://bloerg.net/2012/07/19/heterogenous-computing.html ). The Tomb Raider hair benchmark, which worked with DirectCompute better on AMD than nvidia also shows that for nvidia only CUDA is the prime citizen ( http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2013/3/6/tomb-raider-amd-touts-tressfx-hair-as-nvidia-apologizes-for-poor-experience.aspx ).
FGLRX is ok too, but lags behind nvidia, when looking at the support for new xorgs.
If you consider that AMD also provides some open source support, while nvidia provides none, for me the choice between them is a clear one.

Even if it's not clear for you "Might as well stick with a card I can actually use" is a clear flame.

Last Lenovo I had was an IdeaPad S205. EFI was crap. Windows didn't boot in EFI mode, Linux had problems with Wireless, reboot, everything ACPI related in EFI mode. There are still problems with either working card reader OR working USB ports (arguably a kernel problem) also in BIOS mode.

Do the Thinkpads work in EFI mode?

If your mainboard requires you to use SecureBoot, does this mean you are also forced to boot using EFI instead of some legacy BIOS fallback?

I did not have the best experiences with using EFI in actual EFI mode and not some BIOS fallback mode. My laptop (a eeePC 1215B) refused to boot the windows install in EFI mode and had some wifi problems on Linux; everything works perfectly in BIOS land); I had similar experiences with a Lenovo S205 of a colleague.

First of all: If your wife never played games in her life, forget everything with Mouselook / Dual-Stick for the moment. It won't work. Forget WoW, because also that requires mouselook. It will frustrate her.

Try games, where reaction time is not required, games which are story driven similar to a movie.
My vote goes to something like Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. Played it together with the girlfriend on the wii and we both had a blast puzzling and solving cases. General Point & Click Adventures can provide a similar experience.

If you want to try something new with coop, which quite probably will not require so many skills, try The Cave, which will be out on the 23rd.

I'm a vegetarian and I would eat it.
No central nervous system == no consciousness == karma neutral food^^

And the reason to eat it is simple: easy access to proteins and also good taste.
It's entirely possible to be on a completely vegetarian diet. But you don't have as much choice as the meat eaters, especially considering instant food.

Is Snow Leopard still supported with security fixes? Previous evidence pointed otherwise, which would also force you to upgrade quite soon. See here: http://www.sture.ch/node/196

Why does one need a graphing calculator?
a) because it's actually required in an exam (didn't happen to me in my life).
b) because it makes life easier during an exam.

There's no math field work, where you need immediate mobility anymore. There's no need for a graphing calculator, which must not be used during exams.