They already did. It was called XScale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xscale). I believe it was eventually sold to Marvell. I still do work for clients that use them. Not exactly power houses, but they get the job done.

Having just tried Xubuntu 11.04 and regular Ubuntu 11.04, trying to decide which to give to one of my clueless relatives, I'd say the one thing that lacked in the XFCE setup was browsing smb network shares through the file browser. It was easy for said relative to pop in an Ubuntu 11.04 boot cd (unity and all), get into a live desktop, and find the network share for some network gadget he had. Sure Nautilus pulls in a ton of junk and ain't great on your outdated desktop, but it works. The default file browser in Xubuntu wasn't nearly as functional, for all of the speed up it might have given.

currency! First one to post a verifiable signature on a Slashdot story gets a Slashcoin. Taco and crew are then our new federal reserve--they can inflate the currency to pay our debt to China by posting more duplicate stories!

Our problems are solved!

Oh good glub that brought back some horrible memories.

If I could think of a language with a syntax worse than JS, it would be PL/1. I just LOVE letting programmers use keywords as variable names, throwing up my hands and saying, "let the compiler figure this isht out!"

Excuse me while I go kill myself.

Religion has learned to exploit the part of our brain that was meant for the appreciation of Apple products.

Get it right!

Fo real! I cancelled my psn account over a month ago when they changed the terms of service. Wrote them and told them I declined the change and they happily cancelled my account. Deleted my profile on the ps3 like they asked and lost all of the content I bought. I was happy cause I thought it would be the end of this BS. And I STILL get a mail the other day saying my info was stolen.

I'd happily settle for 8 month of some credit monitoring service (had this happen to me when one if my employers lost a laptop with my info, they got a years woth of monitoring for me and it worked out well).

Anyone kmow where I can get into a class action?

Ah, shoot. I forgot they trade options on the opposite side of the street than we do. Drats.

And what would one use for the first of the two requirements, encrypted storage, on an Android platform? I'd love to hear of a solution.

Thinking of this as "noise" to be filtered out so that the "real work" can get done with less difficulties/errors/interference is just evidence that you ate thinking like an engineer (an intelligent designer) and not mother nature.

Unlock the bootloader, you say? Tell that to all of the D2/DX users out there.

He should have included a third dimension that covered access to energy, especially fossil fuels, over the same time period, or maybe access to education. I think some really interesting things would come out of it.