I'm on an iPad right now and when I have to remember which of the 300 apps I have opens a particular "optimized" site it's a pita, so let's leave the web for what it's been doing for a while now.

Why not charge the guys responsible for compromised organization's security as associates too? They leave security holes "available". Or wait, why is "severely" sensitive data even connected to the inter tubes?

Why do you think you're scammed?

Do you honestly expect an E6400 to be physically different from an E6420 except for a couple jumper slugs?

You pay X dollars for Y performance, if you want 125% Y performance you pay X+Z, simple.
The same as if you buy a game engine for a set number of developers,
or a software license for large products(e.g. windows),
or a db license(e.g. mssql).

Except now you pay for physical limitation and later on - with that business model you'll pay for software limitation,
which by the way opens the way for hacks.

using(FileStream fs=new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.Read))
        fs.Write(new byte[] { 0 }, 0, 1);

Something along the lines of? Pick your file locking in the relevant fields and you're done.

I don't swear by microsoft products, but if there's something that microsoft has done right lately it's .net,
personally I can't understand who'd prefer C++ for writing a UI over C#, besides language zealots.

Yours truly, ignorant script kiddie who prefers 1.6oz burger but orders 2 burgers if not satiated.

Well, there already /are/ different io schedulers, which you /can/ switch at runtime,
they don't seem to be causing any serious trouble.

I thought the whole philosophy of linux is that the OS doesn't assume the user is
braindead. People who might 'pick the wrong one' usually don't compile kernels and
use what their distro provided.

Besides, nobody said every scheduler out there will be merged into main tree,
Linus could limit it to fairly balanced and tested/reviewed/wanted schedulers, and keep
the special-case ones as separate patches which would not disturb anyone but the
people who are interested in those cases specifically.

To the poster above(#20025779): I'm not following lkml that closely, but I have my
doubts that there was any debate. If you have a link to post, please do so -
I'm enjoying all the drama around the issue... Geek soap opera anyone?