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I doubt that is the reason for slow adoption. FireWire controls DMA too and people do not seem to mind that much.

It is also about proving your algorithms do what you want. Why would you do it manually when you can do it in theorem provers like COQ, Agda, ... And building such proofs is very similar to programming ... and mostly harder. It is also about programming language design, and type systems.

I doubt one can be a good in CS without a computer.

If a service is so valuable to its users then the company can charge for it and there is no reason for disappearance.

If the service is not valuable enough for its users to pay for it then nothing of value (to the users) is lost.

Although the most probable outcome is that a better service will appear and that will be the reason for the demise of the old one.

DeBears made 34.8 carat synthetic diamond for research purposes. Its volume should be about 2 cm^3.

I do the same (switch it all off).

The US case started before DE case.

Motorlola proposed worldwide 2.25% license fee at the US court (which MS refused ... obviously).

I do not think these are valid. Each country has different laws. There cannot be a common resolution of a dispute pressed by one court over the whole word. In the worst case, (when companies do not come to agreement) they will sue each other in every jurisdiction separately. I think that is OK.

Isn't Nokia N9 (with MeeGo) a good enough successor? It definitely can be bought now (at least in EU).

How do they attach muscle/tendons to titanium?

No, what he is saying is: "If your paper should result in policy changes which rise our cost of living now, then you better be right."

fluxbox allows you to configure which application windows get focus when opened and which do not. If there is some annoying application stealing your focus you can set it not to receive focus when opened (while keeping other applications receiving focus at open).

Search for fakexinerama to solve your problem. A tilling manager may be an option too.

Why do you think this would not lead to moving trading activities out of the country where taxes are more friendly ... then the brightest would be recruited anyway and moreover they would spend their nice income abroad. Or do you think US has power to enforce this globally? Or do you want to add some kind of duty on international transactions too (to avoid moving it abroad)?

I do not think avoiding this is so easy. Maybe the best and brightest should be assigned a task to figure out how to do it ... who will pay them? :-D

It would mitigate corruption.

No, laws would be made more lax to be bearable.

That is not much. I got a quote on shipping costs from Germany (seller: Deluxecable GmbH) to Slovakia (air distance in the order of 550 km). It was 60 for about 1 kg item, size about 10 cm x 25 cm x 25 cm including packaging. Standard shipping. That was prohibitive. Shipping was significantly higher than the item price. I typically get quotes in the range of 5 - 10 for something like this.