I'd rather let my own behavior distinguish me from the "bad guys", just as I do in all the other parts of my life. If I'm not doing anything wrong, then there's no reason to force me to register anywhere.

"Drone" is an ambiguous term. Some people might mean "any R/C aircraft". When I think of it, I think of the more-sophisticated varieties of multi-rotor copters (quad-, hexa-, and octo- copters) with cameras, either supporting recorded video an programmed, GPS-controlled, autonomous flight or first-person view video, giving the operator/pilot a real-time stream from the perspective of the vehicle. A non-autonomous vehicle, operated purely by line-of-sight, and without recording capabilities says "not a drone" to me.

The problems are all solvable with some basic CS, yes. But you have half to 3/4 of an hour in which to do the problem with someone looking over your shoulder while keeping up a stream-of-consciousness patter so that the interviewer would understand my thought process while writing. I don't do well trying to think and speak at the same time, and I don't do well being watched and critiqued. The easiest way through that kind of interview question is to rehearse it beforehand, for me.

Apple has a "very devoted cult following" in the sense of fans, as in the original sense of the word: fanatics. They've also got a larger, more mainstream following that the original commenter seems to be ignoring.

Who said Linux (as in desktop GNU/Linux) isn't a "cult"? It certainly isn't particularly mainstream...it just seems like a weird non sequitur to throw in. If you include Linux as in Android/Linux, it's definitely mainstream (and more numerous, if less profitable, than the equivalent Apple devices).

If they failed the course the first time around or didn't make a high enough grade to satisfy a prerequisite for a later class in the series, then they make take the same class a second time. If the previous lecturer isn't teaching the class in the current term, the student would have a different one, who may be using a different book.

I played one called "A Tale in the Desert" that stored a lot on the server. Players could custom-build houses, build sculptures, etc, so the base map (stored on the players' computers) just had the terrain. Second Life stores everything on the company's servers and streams it to players as they move through the game world.

And where exactly does one go to buy a $9 smartphone? Aside from that, how can I get AppInventor to do a real language, and not the block-based visual programming that it seems to support? How about self-hosted development? AIDE at least supports self-hosted Java and C++ dev, which are more generally useful...but pretending that using any of these on a phone will be nice is a bad joke.

With iperf testing, someone in that SE question reported about 94.4Mbit through the onboard LAN interface, under half of that for 802.11n over USB (44.5Mbit), and about 222Mbit over a USB3 gigabit ethernet interface. That roughly matches information that I've read in the past.

I describe caffeine as addictive. I describe video games as addictive. I don't see why I wouldn't describe Afrin as addictive (or maybe soften it by saying it "has addictive properties", or something). I've never run into any issues or misunderstandings due to my use of the word; perhaps we've had contact with different populations of English speakers.

The hardware's open? Really? Point me to the schematics for the Raspberry Pi 2. Point me to the specifications for the vector-processing unit that helps prepare the machine for boot before handing execution off to the ARM core (and which also processes GPU commands). Point me to the code for the firmware blobs; after all, I'd like to write some display drivers so that I can use my own screens over the DSI port, rather than relying on the Raspberry Pi Foundation's choice of screen.

Due to the use of Broadcom components, the hardware's about as open as it is in most tablets. We just happen to have proper binary blobs for use with a wider range of OSes.

Odd; I've used the AIDE app as a tablet-hosted development environment, so it has seemed to me that any tablet with that (or another dev environment) is programmable. It's just a little more painful to do it on-device that it would be to use a personal computer for the development before deploying the app to the tablet. The big issue is the closed driver blobs that are used in these devices; that's really what stops us from actually unlocking their potential. Still, the problem is in the software, not in the hardware; there's nothing inherently wrong with tablet hardware, itself.

It's funny to me as a theoretical thing. As a practical one, it's pointless and not a workable prank. Proving that a code change compiles is part of the review process. If someone checks in broken code anyhow, it'll cause the build gate to fail, and won't be pushed to the main repository. Release engineering and QA will get upset with them, and they'll have to fix it anyhow. No one else will be inconvenienced; releng will just have to track down who caused the problem, and QA might have to wait an extra day for whichever other changes were stuck behind the build gate.

Well, from past discussions, it's clear that your requirements often seem to run counter to what the market is doing. Netbooks have basically split three ways: Ultrabooks (often still small, often expensive, almost always Windows-only), Chromebooks (often cheap, locked into ChromeOS if you like your warranty, often small), and tablets/convertibles (usually ARM with binary blob drivers, usually difficult to get an alternate OS on). So, I see the dilemma; you're basically relegated to unpopular use-cases of hardware that may not be supported long.

That's sad to hear. The impression of a review that I found was that the system's flawed at even a hardware level (basic things like the mouse and keyboard, even). It looks like a beautiful machine, and I'm sure it would be great if the kinks can be worked around in software, but I don't think I'd blame anyone for returning the thing as defective , especially if they're going pay a premium for nicer hardware.

So? Is paying the price for hardware that does what you want the problem, or is it the idea of inadvertently supporting the argument of someone that you disagree with? It looks like the Lenovo S21e will work with kernel 4.2 (and has some issues with earlier versions, due to the touchpad and wifi). Something like Dell's XPS13 "Developer Edition" comes preloaded with Ubuntu. Although it's a 13" screen, it's got a tiny bezel, so it should be similar in size to a smaller-screened laptop. Of course, it hits on your apparent cost constraints again ;-)

Canonical has 161 laptops certified for Ubuntu 14.04. You could cross-reference that list with a list of 10 and 11.6 inch machines to find one that you'd consider suitable.