Now the real question is 88 mph in relation to what? :)

I have newest linux, X and XFCE on a dual pentium pro 200 mhz. It has a bit more ram, but it still is about 18 years old.

I must admit, I don't run big regression analysis in R on this one, but it works fine for when friends want to browse the web a bit.

It also fits nicely in my "museum" :)

I have linux om an old dual ppro 200 MHz. Works like a charm :)

The N4 (which has been out for about a year) does not have this issue at all. In fact, I've not seen it on any android phone that came out the last year.
The last time I experienced a small UI lag on times was with the 3 year old HTC Desire. It kind of helped that 4.0+ went with HW accelerated UI.

Probably not the banks, they would have to get involved with tons of small companies offering credit cards.
It is much easier to hit visa or mastercard directly as all the transactions pass through them.

They already have access to the back end servers. No log in needed.

But it won't make it harder for them either. Maybe they can bypass the FISA courts and those pesky opinions if they can just log into the accounts.

I should probably change it after the recent revelations :p
Hopefully there are some tinfoil hats going on in the neighbourhood.

So
scale=2
8*1024*1024/48
174762.66 times :)

So the option left is running open source software on your computer with local strong encryption and pray that the chips don't have nasty microcode in them.

I'm already there :)

I'm not a fan of things not open source, but claiming that any device (including iphone) just works is just silly market speak.

My boss was fighting his new iphone 5 yesterday to install something but the market app kept crashing and he had to hard reboot the phone every time.

He was almost begging to get his old windows phone back.

So there exists some people that prefer windows over the apple one for real reasons :)

It is only essential when you make a crappy web 2.0 dynamic "web app".

I hate with a passion when web pages try to do fancy things like open windows inside a web page that don't respond to the browser back button or make links rely on java script.

I managed to make perfectly fine web pages around 2000 without javascript. We just did it with regular HTML and .. wait for it.. server side code.

Having to load a new page is not bad and you get the added bonus of making the back/forward/bookmark buttons work again.

99% of the javascript used in out there is imho just crap and completely unnecessary to deliver the information the webpage is supposed to do.

Both spotify and youtube can cache files locally for travel. I'm pretty sure the apple stuff can too, but I'm not familiar with that eco system.

The best of course would be no drm, but then you could just download the whole shebang and never pay again.

If I at any point feel that the paid content offers less than the "free", I will chose the free one. And that happens quite often :)

Just like all other native apps (including those on iphone os).
You can't run them on CPU architectures other than the ones you build for, so you would have to supply separate binaries for x86, ARM or MIPS systems.

Minecraft perhaps?

I also really enjoy Kerbal Space Program, I can't say I've seen many sandbox space games based on physics in this way before.

The rehash phenomena is not limited to games either. You see it in moveies (is there nothing but remakes and reboots now?) and TV shows.

I guess it's how Fry puts it in Futurama. People don't want to be surprised, they feel stupid.

I only need one or two good games.
99% of the new AAA games for windows are only rehashes of older ones with DRM/DLC/always on.

Good games like kerbal space program, transport tycoon deluxe, EVE Online runs fine in Linux :)

Yes, I know a lot of people like bad rehashed "AAA" fps games, but most of them play on console anyway no?