Easy enough. Get any recent phone that's supported by Cyanogenmod. Install Cyanogenmod. Then install Debian (or similar). This can be accomplished as a dual boot or as a chroot inside Android. I have Debian installed on my phone; it's kind of fun to dabble with and show people.

If only Congress allowed the F-22 to be purchased by allies. Even a watered down F-22 for other countries would be better than what we have now: an overbudget F-35 program and other countries buying opposing aircraft.

He can't even get rid of dupes and have proper grammar and spelling in story summaries. What makes us think that he'll actually do any better?

Here you go. Ok, maybe you have to compile it yourself, but since you're on thia site, you should know how to do that with both hands tied behind your back.

Hopefully it works out at least as well as the $1 billion they spent on Linux. Maybe they'll have more graffiti this time too.

Twister, the not so intersting story of some researchers and a tornado. You can't fool me again!

I like Windows 8, and it's better with Classic Shell. But your issues with Windows 8 don't really belong here since Windows 8 came out in August, 2012. Of course back then I upgraded from Windows 7 Home premium to Windows 8 Professional for $15 for each of my two computers. I wouldn't have liked it as much if I had to pay more.

It doesn't hurt that it's pretty trivial to put Ubuntu on these things. I have a Samsung Chromebook with the dual-core Cortex A-15 processor, and I put Ubuntu 12.04 on it. All the things I can't do i ChromeOS (image editing, etc.) I do in Ubuntu.

er, I meant $500/year. When she sold the property, the new owner paid significantly more than that (starts at 1%/year).

Honestly I don't know. I also don't know how this affects non-ARM Android devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1, which uses Intel's Atom processor.

Actually they do. The NDK is used when speed is necessary (eg games).

They were protesting in Oakland, which is generally supposed to be cheaper than SF.

Spoken from someone who doesn't live in California. Property tax increases are capped in California. It stays closer to the rate at the time of purchase throughout the years. IE, my boss's mom had a house in Pebble Beach. Her property taxes were about $500/month even though the place was worth several $100k at the time.

Well, then it'll just be OS/2 all over again. A better DOS than DOS, a better Windows thant Windows, so why bother writing native apps?

Say what? We still make airplanes, cars, processors, drugs, etc. in this country. If you don't consider that high tech manufacturing, I don't know what is then.