3: Recruiting competent linux sysadmins and limiting their selection of software immensely.
For instance, requiring that they make everything work with a web interface...

Huh, that is fairly mainstream and simple.

Heck, I've played it with semi-drunk non-nerdy people.

That is actually the problem with counting them as assets.
This means that you can't count expenses, notably the power and the card against the profit.

Basically this means that gross instead of net will be taxed for BC-miners.

Spotify wants you to pay up so it is designed to be infuriating.

If you pay, you get the actual service they are selling, ads aren't worth it.

According to them.

Actually, a collegue (she's not a techie) bought a bunch of cheap lightning cables.

Each of them broke within a couple of weeks of usage.

Anecdotorama notwithstanding, cheap crap is in some cases annoyingly crappy.

I'm 28 and I didn't get it either.

I wondered what the heck a mainframe had to do with what he was saying until I re-read it.

Random distribution means that lumps will form.

This is relatively obvious chaos theory.

Even more so when objects can grow closer due to huge centers of mass.
This might be how black holes start for all we know...

5-pin MHL adds video.
11-pin MHL (samsung only atm unfortunately) adds OTG capabilities.

The connector is awful though, no other usb cable type breaks as easily for me.

The comparison was between windows and linux.

More importantly between building your own box.

That's a HUGE difference from your valid point about something entirely different.

And the drivers?

Not really in question no.

They can go back on everything they've said and make it closed, but it is supposed to be open and hackable from everything they've said.

Not steam itself, but everything else.

I was having pretty much the same thought myself.

Why would you want a 64-bit processor on a phone?

The two possible answers is:
1: They want to prepare for the future where you would actually want that, and by enabling it now they will start moving developers over.
2: They want to make a desktop version of iOS, probably with the aqua layer as a possibility (and since iOS basically runs the same kernel as OSX it should be quite easy to tack on) which will create hybrids.

With a lightning connector, it should be quite easy to create a sexy product which can do a little bit of everything.

Docking the phone to a keyboard and screen is what is interesting.
Or in a laptop.

Or a phone in a tablet in a keyboard.

And so forth.

Not sure this will be the future, but it's a neat concept.

*Whoosh*

He doesn't have a voice.
He's never said anything and is the epitome of the silent protagonist.

Unless I'm mistaken, he doesn't even grunt when hurt or when jumping.

Trademark is to be able to claim ownership of a product.

Meaning, you can actually build a reputation.

Basically, if I buy a Lenovo Thinkpad x230, I don't want it to actually be a Packard Bell netbook.

That is what trademarks are about.

So, no, pretty much nothing like patents.