I'm sure the keyboard on this Gemini PDA could beat the hell out of the keyboard on a macbook pro, which has the worst keyboard of all laptops I've ever used. Unfortunately, the company is standardizing on mac only, no choice.

whatever this guy is regurgitating, his so-called predictions have been so ridiculous to a point of just being a click bait. The USA can't even have a universal healthcare, and the societal wealth redistribution and people's mentality don't seem to move towards a more equitable model at this point, why do you think that universal income would even be thinkable? If this shit is not considered click bait, then what would be?

Per capita wise, I'd say China is still pretty efficient in terms of emission. China has more than four times the population of the USA, but less than twice the total emission of the USA's. So, should we say China is at least twice as efficient as the USA? If you apply the same per capita calculation across all the countries on that list, China is still more efficient than all of them, except India.

And Canada, with a tiny population, the total emission is incredibly high. We, as Canadians, should get off our high moral pedestal, and should do something about it.

So, let's stop saying which country is the biggest polluter. As individual, let's revise our own living style and see what, each of us, can do our own fair share.

I use Linux as my main OS since the late '90s, and I found that the best laptop for Linux is still the Thinkpad series. I have had 4 different Thinkpad, and a series of other laptop, such as HP, Dell, Sony, Asus, etc. But Thinkpad is the one with the least problems. I'm currently using a Thinkpad x250. Lightweight, good battery, everything works with Linux (screen resolution sucks though). The other really good laptops for travel were Asus Eee PC (the first generation) and the Sony Vaio 505 series (I bought the first generation in 1998), they all worked great with Linux. I really missed them, when backpacking.

The idiots at google always think they know better than anyone else. I used VPN a lot, and I tend to round-robin-ly connect to one of the many servers around the world, google keeps annoying me and even shut me out many times, despite that I keep telling them that the login was me and there's nothing suspicious. Those idiots have no idea there's something called VPN or proxy server. Needless to say, I login to google less than twice a year. The other idiotic company is paypal. After my account was shut down, I went 60 hours of explanation and providing all kinds of proofs. They even acknowledged that I had the right password. But they would budge. I still had $150 in that account. I gave up. I used to spend thousands per year via paypal, they'd rather rob $150 off me instead of having my business. I do no more business with in the six years. I hope more people would stop dealing with these robbers too.

Posting this issue on /. would never have any meaningful discussion, given the attitude of this crowd towards anything barely resembling formal engineering. When the majority think it's cool to write large and complex systems in languages which don't even support strong static typing, and would have a blank stare if you ask them why they think their code is correct, there is simply no place for any serious discussion. Good tools certainly do not guarantee good outcome, but why do we think bad tools would have good outcome, given the same pool of talents? If we can't fix bad programmers, why not thinking about creating better tools? Formal engineering is hard, and no one said it's easy, but it's not a reason not to strive for better ways.

From the perspective of a very far on looker (a Canadian living in China), the result of the referendum is very unfortunate. Since WWII, generations and generations of people, with long term vision for a stable and peaceful Europe, had put their weight to form the Union. It's certainly not perfect, but it's better, by a long measure, than the situation in the first half of the 20th century. I am quite amazed that more older generation stand by the Leave camp. I would have thought that they should be the ones who know better. With one referendum, which is more fueled by temporary discontent than calm reasoning, they want to dismantle what took years and years to gradually build up. The chain reactions in the coming years won't be pretty, and I hope I would be wrong.

I was born in Cambodia, been through the Khmer Rouge regime, lost 80% of our family, spent 8 years in a refugee camp in Vietnam, and was lucky enough to be accepted in Canada when I was 18. In the 1990s, I was very happy to see the Berlin wall fall, and that Europeans countries were merging into one block with their interests tightly interconnected, and I could only dream of a same scenario for Asia, a scenario that would take many many more years to even be a prospective, if at all.

I don't understand this. GB is already part of one of the biggest free trade blocks and they decided to withdraw. And, now you want them to go to negotiate yet more free trade agreements with distant countries, with their diminished negotiating power? That's a very bizarre way of reasoning.

Ok, the kid is bright, but he's also arrogant, reckless and probably a bit insane. But set aside his personality, I don't understand the negativity on this forum towards another geek who hacks things together to make it work. There are a lot of hard problems in what he is working on, and if he can come up with a new way to do computer vision, I would be really happy too. The current start-of-the-art in this field is convolutional neural network (CNN), which, basically, is just a kind of brute force pattern matching. I have been working on a robot that "can see, listen and understand, and climb tree" (the climb tree part is to design some mechanics flexible enough to climb tree, then it's flexible to handle any terrains), so I understand the difficulty of computer vision and speech recognition. What Hotz said sounds like snake oil, but who are we to judge when we haven't seen the details? I'll keep my mind open for now, and hope that we could have a better way than CNN.

I always wanted electronic products that I can fix (or have it fixed) if something went wrong, or change a component. I can vote with my money, sure, but we are running out of options. That's why I'm still using my HTC Desire Z phone, but I also can't find new battery now.

When we had the Project Ara for discussion some times ago, there were so much negativity in this forum. If a forum full of geeks is so negative towards this project, how would you expect the general populace to do?

Perl syntax, as is, is already pretty hard for everyone to digest (if you have never maintained any perl written by a bunch of self-declared genius, don't try to comment), wait till all the geniuses can extend that language. I'll need to keep a machine gun under my desk, in case I go ballistic.

I was playing with it when it just came out, and wow, the compiler was fast. It was great and all. So to find out how much I can do or to figure out my own skill level in Go, I started to port one of my C++ libraries to Go. That library has made heavy use of tree and trie data structures, which were implemented as template in C++. Then, bang, I hit a wall with Go. How to do generics? There was no way to do it. Looking on the web, I even saw someone create a kind of "compiler" to generate different code set for different types, say, you want a b-tree for class A? Fine, one set of code for that. Want a B-tree for class B? Fine, another set. Using his tool, I ended with five or six different sets of duplicated code, and I had a few more to go. That's when I stopped using that language.

Isn't this more like a surrogate than a robot?

If Thomas Edison were to live in our era, there wouldn't be aThomas Edison.

Ok, I only have a small question: emacs or vi?