That would be good since Intel's CPUs are only getting 10% faster each generation.

Bravo. I wish I had mod points. Running an OS off a USB stick is not exactly novel - it's been done for years. I can remember my first experiments with Knoppix and a persistent home directory, maybe 5 or 6 years ago.
The one thing that's novel is exploting this idea to make money.

Nonsense. Code does routing and floor planning, it doesn't design two-core modules.

Oh and in the current designs the automatic layout saved significant real estate and power compared to hand layouts.

The article you refer to is utter bullshit.

Oh no! Neither MS nor Apple? What has the world come to? How are the students going to be good software consumers? They might even begin to write their own programs! Heavens, they'll al become evil hackers!

I guess I'll stick to fish and dairy.

Replace all coal/nat gas burning power plants, all trucks, ships and airplanes within one year? Citation needed.

80% of primary energy is fossil today. How long will it take to turn that around, given that most people resist?

You don't even need to postulate global conflict. Energy depletion will be sufficient.

Yes. Look at the political influence of the fossil fuel companies. Koch, Exxon, BP, Chevron, Shell...

Does xfterminal still hang hard from time to time? I lost work due to this, that's why I'm on KDE now.

This seems perfectly par for the course as far as Internet comments go.

That might be good for job security and a career upgrade.

Exactly. Almost everything written about him can be found in older texts about other gods. See "The God Who Wasn't There" and similar.

Great, thank you!

Umm, what's the difference between the bible and tales about Santa Claus? Seriously? A little bit of historical truth with piles of lore on top?