Acutally a bunch of Arch users left... when systemd was rolled out alot went to Gentoo a derivative of it as it seems to be one of the last holdouts against systemd. Gentoo is about choice though and there are alot of people running systemd even on Gentoo. and friends.

One thing to keep in mind is that ADA is super verbose... much like its cousin VHDL.

Mainly to aid in compile time detection of errors... I've never programmed in ADA but a little VHDL in school and it looks very familiar.

And let me tell you... VHDL has the potential to be extremely verbose (behavioral models help as do other new features.. but thats off topic realy).

RMS... doesn't like LLVM either.

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/15/02/08/210241/rms-objects-to-support-for-llvms-debugger-in-gnu-emacss-gudel

Costly batteries are only a problem when you want batteries that are lightweight and high capacity for vehicles... Potassium Hydroxide batteries (among others) already solve the low cost solar storage problem for fixed high reliability installations.

The only thing stopping people from switching to solar is themselves... its not even that expensive anymore relative to the cost of a new house.

The question is does this partnership hinge on the exclusion of better solutions and technologies... If not who cares if it does then we have a problem.

SCSI over USB isn't exactly all that new its been in Linux since 2012, windows since version Win8 and Mac OS since 10.8. I definitly heard about it back in 2012 maybe even in 2011.

Eh... I want to read the sequels to Count to a Trillion. Its a pretty far out there SciFi but it read quickly and kept me interested.

One of my favorite SciFi novels is The Excalibur Alternative which happens to be a free baen ebook... I want a sequel to that so bad.

Ender's game was pretty entertaining as well but I don't really have any desire to read the shadow series of it.... since it occurs chronologically at the same time as the rest of the stories I just feel it is rather pointless though I could be wrong.

Well, I hope you recover from nonfinishitis soon.. and whatever you do do not read the Hot Zone (This is the one that triggered ny nonfinishitis).

Yep that trick totally evaded me... I don't doubt that would work fine though.

Now.. what about if it had to be connected to the internet to validate the installation at startup >:W

And the server had to give it's response in a reasonable amount of time ie 100ms and you couldn't fake it on the PC due to encryption. Now I don't doubt that could be broken but it would be a tad harder at least perhaps ... maybe :D

Just detect if CPU performance is above a certain threshold.... Bochs is slow dead slow as is anything else that emulates adequately enough to make this vector of attach relevant even FPU x86 cpus are at 486 performance levels these days.

Nah... its totally pro bono islamico!

It probably is capable... when it is running Windows :D .... seriously though they may have certified it with a different OS.

I don't really care what OS it was certified with as long as it can read and write the blocks correctly on an SDXC device... and noone should really care about ExFAT its just anohter MS lock in file system.

An SDXC card is a block device.... ExFAT is a filesystem which can be accessed with this open source code https://code.google.com/p/exfat/.

Sure the spec may specify it but that doesn't mean you can't use something else. I am fairly sure Richard Stallman's camera doesn't use ExFAT and probably has the resolution of a potato making the need for SDXC moot anyway since the file sizes won't be very large at all!

And of course you can format an SD card with ext2.... you can even parition the card for smaller FSs if the card size exceeds the max FS size for the given FS.

Urquan-Masters...literally is Star Control 2. They even upgraded it some I think in the sound department...

Now if you mean new material in the style with with the level of cooky inspired awesomeness that is SC2 then yes... totally yes :D

There is pretty good hard data that says.. HTML rendering is embarrassingly parallel... thus Mozilla is working on Servo.

That is 99% of computer use right there... parallel is here to stay and knowing the web it will get vastly more parallel once a browser engine is out there that can do it.

I did read it... but he did say 4 cores is enough for most people and I refuted that.

Even though largely in the context of his rant... he is correct. That single statement is rather horrendous.

1 core even is "enough" for most tasks... however it doesn't give the best experience no one wants to wait on thier computer more than necessary.