And in other news..

"The same seas that we evaporate and drive boats across could become repositories to store large quantities of plutonium. A new computer model suggests that holes in the Atlantic Ocean, a 106400000 sq-kilometres formation right next to the U.S. that is a hotbed for water, could store all the radio active waste emitted by the country's power plants from now until 2080."

0_o

Fixed link: http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/cargo/orbitalsciences-index.html

URL for "successfully launched their demo cargo mission to the ISS" is missing the last character, gives 404.

I hear you, but Java made that even simpler (to grasp).
You only build (and debug!!!) something (with a GUI) once, and it works for everyone (ok, over 99% of users) that has the (proper) VM installed.

Right i must have been confuzzled.

I should also mention that there are a LOT of compilers and other solutions available based on the (object) Pascal language today, such as http://smartmobilestudio.com/
Good times for pascal.

This pretty much sums it up. The big downside to pascal was that it took more effort to run on multiple platforms. Java had that going.

Since then, FPC and Lazarus made things somewhat less complicated but still not easy, and Delphi is barely entering that market now, with Embarcadero recently releasing cross compilers and Firemonkey.

Am i the only one that was hoping this to be a story about crazy ass pilot Murdock (actor Dwight Schultz) from the A-Team having built a computer laboratory/system much in the spirit of programmer Zimmerman (actor Dwight Schultz), the creator of the EMH (Emergency Medical Holographic) doctor program from Voyager?

I hope not..

Which IMHO can cost more sweat than approaching this in bulk.
They'd narrow down the potential content types (notably by entropy) to get likely plain data chunks, and go from there using more encryption exploits, rainbow tables, and brute force. The bad thing about encryption is that its pretty predicable. A good solution starts with avoiding established standards.

I'd upvote if i could. This is the correct answer.

Beam/fiber from a landline T1 connection. Talk to a ISP, (in the Netherlands) they happily jump in as sponsor.

Then use professional grade WiFi (e.g. bug ugly gray Cisco boxes with three thick antenna's) to cover the main event areas. Dont mess with consumer grade WiFi unless you are sure you only have 10 csuch aslients and no wifi noise.

Seriously, it does look like /. is proactively madvertising the Surface. IMHO, Win8 is perfect (use it daily on non-touch PC) and the only downside for RT is a lack of apps. Just as Android when it launched, but back then it only had one iOS product (!) as competition. Its harder for RT to win in the current market.

Not sure whether to mod you +1 Funny or +1 Horror..

I was thinking this was the Haswell release of the Thinkpad Helix. Turns out, /. is behind by 4 months and just learning about the Helix. *facepalm* It hurts.
But yes, IMHO its the best convertable out there by far.

I'm waiting for the Haswell version however, and i hope its 16" 3200x1800 and sports a better GPU. I don't mind the weight and size.

So, he's a marketeer. And fails to marketeer.
I would say Windows 8 is beautifully engineered, and a great new UX concept.

If only the dinosaurs would see the value or stick with '95 era UX and stop moaning..

Yes. Nerds are perfectly capable of using such wording, like Dilbert proved.

And lets be fair, sometimes you have to broadcast a bunch of compressed wildcards, it keeps minions and investors happy as they hear whatever they want to hear. The real policy is laid out on the meeting table, never take speech literally, in fact whats not being said tells you more.