Yeah this solution was known for years.

It's so fscking easy, nobody seems to notice it:
1. The song is looping, because it's something that loops, duh;
2. By engaging cognition into it, one can extend the loop and thus break past the trigger that keeps it looping.

So here we are, looking at the n-th rediscovery, posted on /.

Ubuntu is a great starting point. Not because it's exactly a clean Linux distro (more like hanging loose with duct tape and awesful customization), but because of the support community around it.

Once you get used to Linux-ing around, go to Fedora because it's new, clean and raw and thus learning material.

But before you shift to Fedora, watch the excellent noob-friendly Hacktip series from Hak5:
http://hak5.org/category/episodes/haktip

Now tell me; since Flash and Silverlight will exist, anyway... How are we going to keep the web open, exactly?

The answer is simple, but not easy.

1. Ask your customers what they like/dislike/want;
2. Focus first on the primary features:
-The best and fastest connectivity
-Best batterylife
-Best call quality
-Best readeable screen in the sun
-Pherhaps water proof phone for use in the rain? Nokia is working on it and it would be a massive selling point
-Offline maps with offline GPS data to reduce data usage
-Best HTMLv5 browser like Tizen, with deep phone integration, and multiple tabs and desktop grade browser features
-insanely responsiveness
-Insanely great API; as insaneley good as AmigaOS back in the day

Then focus on the best components like a camera that rivals the best consumer compact camera, a fast CPU, lots of RAM and a realy fast CPU. Have a robust body and look nice with the focus on useability, not design, like the Nokia E7-00.

Make sure that you also launch the smartphone era into a real pocket computer era. This means having the option of a closed DRM appstore, but also a truely open platform and then never switch CPU architecture and never break any API. You can do this with API versioning, like Microsoft uses DLL versioning.

The rest is up to marketing and consumer feedback.

I hope people will switch to 4G as soon as possible, so that 3G will be freed up for me, so I can enjoy my E7-00 untill it dies.

If Nokia doesn't have the best HTMLv5 experience and Whatsapp (or whatever will be required by then), awesome battery life, offline maps, full qwerty keyboard, kickass camera and all the other superb features of my current phone (that excludes the camera), I will not buy a Nokia device, ever again, unless Nokia ships a full featured Linux phone.

I hope the Nokia board realizes that they do not have a single unique selling point anymore. I also hope that if they make a comeback with a good phone, their entire marketing department gets fired and replaced with competent staff that CAN ACTUALY INFORM THE PUBLIC AND DUMBASS REVIEWER ABOUT THE PRODUCT, so it won't fail like Symbian has failed to sell enough.

iPhones suck at basic functionality. Android is a horrible piece of shit, and I say that as I Linux fanboy. BlackBerry doesn't even begin to cover what I actualy use a phone for, on the go. Everybody just likes to rave about how much of a computer the non-Symbian smartphones are, while they are FAR from being an actual computer.

So please Nokia, stop the madness. Ditch Windows Phone when you've created a MOBILE COMPUTER 'phone', that actually runs a fullblown Linux install and NEVER EVER listen to these review 'experts' EVER AGAIN. Instead you might want to listen to your CUSTOMER FEEDBACK?

Good-fscking-bye...

If you think that systemd is just a rewrite because someone didn't like launchd, you are dead wrong.

Systemd does a lot more than simply launching. A simple websearch reveals that it does way more than just that.

For example:
1. Using cgroups to keep track of processes, even after double forking, so that it can launch/kill services on demand, so everything you do requires absolutely the most minimum amount of services. Say if you don't use Bluetooth; it doesn't run. If you do want to use it, then it automatically gets killed, so save useless CPU cycles;
2. Since it keep track, you don't have to assign users to certain groups anymore and logout everytime you want to update the environment;
3. It enables multi-seat setups and when you hook up a new screen, keyboard and mouse into a USB hub, it wilt automatically launch a new user session for you and prompts for a graphical login on the new screen, automatically;
4. And so on and so forth...

Compatibility issues with what? PulseAudio sits on top of ALSA or OSS; it doesn't replace it at all. That means that all the ALSA/OSS apps can still run on ALSA/OSS. PulseAudio is a routing thing.

SystemD works with SysV init scripts, but whoever wants to go that route is not thinking straight.

PulseAudio combined with SystemD allows for multi-seat setups, semi-parallel boot of sequential boot dependancie chains (with sockets) and doesn't lose track of processes after lots of forking.

OK you have to learn the Good Stuff before you dive in, but the power of Linux is not being required to internally stay like old crap, so that it may evolve not to become a giant pile of bitrot like Windows.

As of yet, I have never, ever had a problem with PulseAudio, not even when it was first introduced on Ubuntu. Many problems with PA come from not-so-strict ALSA and OSS drivers. Doing homework on Linux compatibility pays off.

Gyroscopes are keeping themselves leveled, oops. What I meant was keeping it up to speed while leveled.

Data isn't everything.

It's realy simple: using these balls propperly, meaning realy getting them up to speed, requires a lot of force to keep them leveled. Force is being applied by muscles. Just like lifting weights; the more you do, the stronger you get.

After a couple of weeks, my wrist realy grew in diameter. After I stopped, it shrank a little.

The difference in wrist diameter was the difference between my watch fitting loose and tightly around my wrists.

Many females who do work by hand, who develop strong muscles in the wrist, develop the tunnel problem. Males don't suffer from it that much. So females are not recommended getting such a ball.

TL;DR: male wrists get stronger, females develop the tunnel problem

man random gives: reading too much chunks of entropy will cause slow down for other users. Every app in Crapdroid is 'sandboxed' by creating a new user session per app.

The evidence for why Android sucks, can be read in the internal emails, used in the Oracle Vs. Google "ahmygod they stole our APIs!" court case.

Most definately! Android and iOS are like "app-buckets", whereas Symbian features all kinds of functionality that these app-buckets simply do not have, which have to be complemented with apps, but kind of suck.

I'll give a few examples of why I choose a Nokia E7-00 (a $600 phone at that time) after Android, even though I'm a fan of Linux on the desktop and free software in general:
-Offline maps, with walking directions;
-Build in VoIP straight from the dialer app;
-Build in streaming internet radio (simply paste an URL and go);
-Support for most audio formats;
-Dolby Digital built in;
-USB host, so I can use a USB stick to bypass the laptop boot everytime I need to print a document;
-Official, full range MSOffice suite and HDMI out, which in combination with USB host for a mouse can make presentations that much easyer;
-No credit card needed for app purchases (just on top of the monthly phone bill);
-Slide to unlock holding turns of LED flash light, with a brightness you can lit an entire room with;
-Full multiple Exchange support;
-FileSystem support;
-BlueTooth music streaming, that compared to iOS, actualy doesn't skip every now and then;
-Other exclusive apps (like for example a YouTube downloader which pulls even DRM Vevo horror just fine, so I don't have to consume my entire data plan, every time I want some new music on the go).

And next to obviously better hardware than any other phone (except killer CPU which you don't even need with Symbian):
-Battery kicks ass;
-Connectivity kicks ass;
-ClearBlack display kicks ass if, you know, you want to use your phone outside?;
-Nice keyboard.

And then tons of usability things. I'll keep this phone until it breaks or HTMLv5 starts to realy take off on a sane mobile platform that doesn't suck balls in ways like it's 1999 all over again.

An ice age is not a multi-variable problem. Understanding how they came to be and changing the climate, however, is.

Since it is difficult in how it forms and goes away, I said it was dangerous to engineer a climate change, because it's a damn difficult multi-variable problem, and chances are we won't be able to predict the side effects of changing the delicate climate.

Yet I like to see anyone deny that we're still in an ice age, and how the ice is still melting more than there's water being frozen, anualy.

The explenation is very simple: we're moving away from an ice age. Yes; look at the north- and the south pole.

An ice age start when there's snow falling and water is freezing, and stays there (in whole or in part) untill the next winter.

The real question is not if there is global warming (there is, simply look at the available data; no need for extrapolating here), but how that global warming is going to affect the human species, in terms of habitablility, or not.

There are two outcomes:
1. It is habitable, or;
2. It is not habitable.

Then the next question, if not habitable:
1. Can we, and should we, adjust the climate? (dangerous), or;
2. Should we change our way of living, like engineering smal biospheres.