Actually, in my experience this is not the problem, you can cite whatever you want. Considering this article, such reputation for fact-checking and accuracy does not really exist anyway (i.e. the higher the ranking of a journal, the higher the probability that articles have to be retracted). The real problem is, articles that do not appear in a journal count less or nothing on the authors curriculum, unless you are a genius like Grisha Perelman, who, AFAIK, published the proof of the Poincare conjecture only on arXiv.

That is only because a problem with the ondemand performance governor was corrected.

I still have an AMD based system though (cpu, chipset, and gpu).

Wrong, I can still play Civilization, Call to Power(1999), Neverwinternights (2003), Doom 3 (2005) and other IDtech4 games, And yet It Moves(2009) on my current Gentoo/Linux installation. All these games haven't seem patches in ages.

Guess what, "Linux" is exactly like this. Just install the latest GNU/Debian and you will have to explicitly select the GUI option. Besides, I don't really see why a GUI should be a problem. Most games open a window, often fullscreen, and then do all the drawing themselves, the only thing the GUI is doing is, drawing the windows frame if the game window is not fullscreen.

Funny, I do all my primary development on Linux, and if I want to do cross-platform, the odd one out is usually MS Windows. Just getting all required libraries installed on Windows is a nightmare, because the only non-cygwin way to get a stable combination of libraries is to compile them all be yourself ensuring that you always use the same compiler flags.

No. I had two flatmates, one studying geology, the other working at a lawyers office, both preferred Ubuntu Linux, and they were certainly not "Hackers", they simply enjoyed an OS that worked on their Laptops without having to worry about the latest antivirus and with very simple means to get a lot of software for free with only a few clicks.

And Joe-average user can just do that: I bought two of the Humble Bundles and for all the games I actually cared to install I downloaded a bit TGZ, or SH file, unpacked it and the game just run. Doing the same thing with a CD/DVD should be no different. Even when I bought Civilization (call to power) in 1999 it worked by just popping a CD into the drive and installing on Linux.

I would guess that the phones you get with a contract or pre-paid would be locked for a certain time, but if you can get hold of a developer preview phone, it is completely open, the only problem so far is that whenever they have some in stock they are sold out very fast.

The term patent usually refers to the right granted to anyone who invents any new, useful, and non-obvious process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter.. Now given that the eSATA + USB combination already existed, how is any other combination of ports non-obvious?

well, thank the FSM that I never moved away from sourceforge. I migrated from CVS to SVN, now I moved to GIT, and their new Allura interface is quite nice. The only thing that I'm missing in the bug tracker is a way to properly define dependencies between bugs.

This can be done with user space threads

long long int existed as for quite some time, gcc and msvc support in on 32 bit platforms.

And yet in Germany wind power provided 9.9% of the total energy consumption in 2011, in some states in the north more then 40% of the consumed power was wind power. And as you can see here, the combination of wind and solar power is a good idea: when there is more sun there tends to be less wind, and when there is more wind, usually you have less sun.

If there is evidence, there wouldn't be any reason to believe, or like Douglas Adams put it so nicely, God only exists through believe.

Wilful blindness is actually what religion is all about, because it can be used to execute power over people.

The wrong link in the summary should be http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/669034

In case you didn't RTFS: The laptop was bricked by using a program running on Windows.

There, FTFY.

Well, there's s always the CRAPL license that was made for exactly this kind of source code release, and IMNSHO publishing the source code with the paper should be a must, because it's only science if it is reproducible. I work in image processing and more often then not, papers are missing parameters, the description of the implementation is ambiguous, and as a result just reproducing the result of such a paper is impossible without contacting the authors. (The data used is yet another story.) I do not care if the code is production ready of if I would have to rewrite it from scratch, if at least could have a look at the tweaks that are not in the paper because the authors didn't deem them important enough and the reviewers didn't notes that the published algorithms are not really reproducible - or worse, the reviewers told the authors that "these are standard filters, so there is no need to publish the parameters".

Well, just look at a map, and one can clearly see that a cable to Florida would have made a lot more sense than the cable to Venezuela. There is. in fact, an undersea cable running like 20km off-shore off the northern Cuban cost, but because of the embargo, Cuba was not allowed to connect to it. Hence until now, at least the state of the Cuban Internet connection had a lot to do with the embargo. And Internet connection nowadays means business.

So far I've only seen Pina in 3D, but with this flick it was really great. I think that it is one of the movies that really gained from the technology. Still, at times it was annoying that you have to look more or less exactly where the director wants you to look, because otherwise its out of focus.