Keeping up w/gimp a little bit, I know they were working on library-izing the codebase a few years ago. Did that ever get done?

If it's strictly browser-based, chromecast sticks (not the boxes) should work. Google is advertising that use, no less.

I learned Java way back in the 5 days. Obviously things have changed since then (and I was much less experienced). What examples are there of "the right way" Java applications?

For instance, is there a performant HTTP server/proxy that keeps pace with something like nginx whose source I could browse to see the state of the art?

People don't magically create software where there isn't a gap to fill (fucking about user interfaces excepted of course).

Everything systemd aside, that's not true. The NIH-syndrome is alive and well. Instead of working on and improving existing software, a LOT of people want to start from scratch just so they can have their braces in the place they like to see them. For instance, I was poking around with protobuf earlier and saw that there are five javascript bindings.

And if you install your CA on the machines, you can still use a local caching proxy.

The straight sections help focus the beams down into tighter bunches

He was saying you don't have to cast

since you wouldn't even need to recompile applications for different platforms if the backend is handled properly.

I'd say that's a huge "if", given the number of apps that put the "magic" in C shared libraries to make it easier to port to different platforms

Intel has a mountain of money, the various ARM SoC guys have a pretty large revenue stream (though it's fragmented...). Is it reasonable to say that Intel's money they have to devote to pushing their power usage down is large enough to overcome ARM's advantage, or does ARM have some sort of inherent advantage (+ ARM's supporters' money) that will keep them at least at parity?

Which is why someone needs to make a fully functional LibreOffice for Android.

I'm still waiting for someone to make a fully functional (Libre|Open)Office for my desktop...

Do you think someone broke into your Skype account to call 5 random countries? They're all toll numbers in Africa. The damage is done and you lost

The speed limit is the speed other drivers expect you to be driving at

Absolutely not. I-88 outside of chicago (part of my commute) has a speed limit of 55, and the only two times I've ever seen people traveling under 70 was in rain or if there was a cop in the median. Every city I've lived in has the same effect.

Speed limits are a number of things, but they're certainly not "the speed other drivers expect you to be driving at"

I don't think we're that far apart. Certainly the idea that a university should ban everything is stupid. I was just saying that people who dedicate their lives to teaching appreciate students that pay attention and succeed. Saying: "why should the teachers care if the students or pass" disregards why those people enter education compared to other careers

I might as well have just stopped reading your post there, they might lock you in to studying with them for 4 years but you are allowed to move off campus you know.

Many universities don't allow you to move out of the dorms (the cynic in me says it's for the $$, but who knows). I went to a tiny school in a really rural location and even if we wanted to move out, there were more students in the town than actual people in the town (1400 students, 800 residents), so it would've never worked to have people spread around.

Then why are you bitching about it on Slashdot? Chances are, none of us are the administration you're railing against. It *is* their network and their rules. If you don't like the food, the internet, the dorms then your options are to complain to them or leave. If it's not providing the things you want to have, then you've probably made a bad choice when you were applying to schools. (assuming they didn't mislead you on what they were providing)

  My university didn't allow cable TV in the dorms (they didn't even have the hookups), and I didn't run around trying to find a few miles of coax to string a cable to my room. They also have an amazing cafeteria, and I love eating food, so it made a lot of sense to go there :)