So everyone should start carrying external spare batteries.

I've seen a 22400 mAh portable Li-ion battery for less than $50. Imagine a whole plane full of those. And no, consumer grade Li-ion batteries never explode.

Up to two spare Li-ion batteries up to 300 Wh ("large batteries") are allowed in the carry-on baggage. So external USB chargers/accumulators up to 60 mAh should be OK.

Works fine with NoScript if you allow both www.scribd.com and scribdassets.com. Without scripts only the first three pages are loaded and default fonts are used.

To read other documents in HTML5 one needs to enable it in his Scribd settings (http://www.scribd.com/account/edit).

Add to this that when the same title officially arrives to the local market may lose some subtitles, or even an original audio track. If it's an audio, it may be digitally remastered (once again).

Or just move some code offshore. Software patents is an awesome opportunity for software as a service.

I can imagine whole third world countries to make living from opening files in patent-encumbered formats.

As far as I know no other monitor is even close now. Being able to see 57% more pixels matters. Especially if you are into editing photos. BTW, 2560×1440 is just enough to see 12 MP photos at crispy 50% zoom (assuming 3:2 format). 2048×1152 is not enough even for a nasty 2MP shot (assuming 4:3 format). For games and vi it does not really matter.

But $1600 is too much, IMO. As I don't make money on photos, I am not byuing that screen yet.

> will be a somewhat open protocol, a federated social network.

You mean like identi.ca and openmicroblogging?

hg-git is OK (to use hg as a client for remote git repositories).
hg-subversion interoperation is told to be less reliable (people say bazaar-subversion integration is better).

bzr clients seem to be more or less interoperable with all major VCSes via plugins (bzr-svn, bzr-hg, bzr-git).

darcs and git are not interoperable with anything.

Switching to a new version of Linux is not nearly as big of an undertaking.

Clearly, you don't have an ATI video card, do you?

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9142148/Review_3_top_Linux_distros_go_for_different_users

I wish there were a way to exclude pay-walled pages from the search results. What do you think about it, Google?

Please check out such books as Mercurial: The Definitive Guide and Real World Haskell. They were freely available when being written and remain such, but in the same time both books were published as usual (on paper) by O'Reilly:

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596800673/
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514983/

The source code used to create the books is also available. So you may use the same work flow.

> There have already been dual GPS/GLONASS systems for many years, so a triple GPS/GLONAS/Galileo system should be no problem.

Actually, such systems already exist. For example, see Topcon GR-3. There are also GPS/GLONASS/Galileo single-chip receivers.

It's not different for Python on Google App Engine. Only a subset of its standard library is available (anything that requires disk access does not work).

So, also with Python one has to code specifically for GAE. The same applies for Java.

But GAE offers free-as-in-beer and ad-free application hosting. It's OK that it is somewhat limited and is not 100% compatible with everything else.

This had to happen sooner or later. We only didn't know when and where. Now, in France.

Looking forward to the rise of anonymous (pseudonymous) P2P networks. They are almost there already, but only lack sufficient user base.

I bet on GNUnet.

There were some Russian programming languages from the USSR's aerospace community.

Please take a look at some valid literate Haskell code which tells the common Russian fairy tale. It has nothing to do with aerospace, and it is standard modern Haskell. Copy-paste, compile and run.

Another modern example is Chinese Python. Though it is a fork from the standard python.