Indeed, even when I was running direct cvs and later svn versions, that rarely happened, and usually it was fixed if I rebuilt it a few hours later.

In the US, they do on T-mobile... oh wait.

I'm sorry, but having used a Zaurus (my SL-C1000 recently died) there is little difference in the UI from Apple's, and the first ones appeared about 2003 (Actually probably a bit sooner, considering the SL-5500 I grabbed has a Rom 3.13 build date of Jul 2 2003, and I got one as a birthday present, which wouldn't have occurred in 2003 yet.):

The dock actually isn't that new, the only thing that's 'new' about it is bringing it on screen vs dedicated buttons. (And even on the Zaurus, with I think the 3.1 rom, the button's actions could be changed, so even configurable isn't anything new.

There are very very minor differences:
Tabs are smaller, and accessed via swiping the screen vs taping the icon.

There weren't any universal graphical icons at the bottom on Qtopia. However, there were universal physical buttons. (see above)

Lack of a universal way to get to the icons, via the start menu-like construct in the lower left of Qtopia, granted, that bar holds the notifications and similar, and has been moved to the top of the screen of both of the two new UIs under discussion.

Hardware: Stylus & finger vs finger-only. While it allows for a few things like multi-touch, capacitive touch screens suck in a lot of ways, and now resistive touch screens are starting to support multi-touch.

Hardware: Multiple-touches. that does give a bit of difference, but considering it's mostly used in photos and maps, wouldn't I wouldn't have interacted much with the Zaurus/Qtopia equivalents, as I didn't have any GPS equipment.

Also note, that most of these are present in (Original) Palms, which would push them back further in time, but I didn't use Palm much. The Palm also had the hardware buttons like the dock. (Actually had some in the touch sensitive area around the graffiti area)

Having something like the dock on screen is simply a consequence of reducing physical buttons.

Can we include phones too?

Because I'm pretty sure my phone beats an Intel chipset...

Did it cost more than 300$?

Actually, at least for 3g with some (their Galaxy S variants) the T-mobile one will work on both T-mobile and AT&T, but the AT&T will only work on AT&T. I don't know about the others, but it wouldn't surprise me if that wasn't the only phone that's like that.

Out of curiosity, who among either the Democrats or Republicans in the primaries did you not consider crazy and/or corrupt, or would you make the same statements no matter who had been put forth by the D/R?

Blender, yafaray, and some others, especially look at the fluid simulation (and turn up the resolution!)

There: all the 2.8GHz CPU pegging you want.

Couple of weeks ahead even.

The oldest method: Don't be interesting.

While a bit tongue in cheek, it's a fairly good way. Even if your data is in whatever databases, if there's no use of it, then it might as well not exist.

Unfortunately, that works both ways in some cases. I keep hearing about Charlie Sheen. I decided to look a little last night and no one has made a coherent summary of it. Better yet, could everyone stop talking about him?

Granted, that won't prevent automated things like targeted advertising. However, if you haven't yet developed a mental filter for advertising, I'd get started, it helps on so many things. In fact, if not for being a method for infection/malware, I probably wouldn't use adblock. (That I got tired of the Flash/PDF ads that tried to infect my machine was the ultimate catalyst for that. Too bad for sites that are ad based, but there are enough sleazy ads that they lose out.)

There was one done quite a bit ago that used sugar as the print material. Wasn't very high resolution, but it worked, and could be eaten. Also, I've heard of Rep-raps using chocolate (and other substances) in the past.

This also doesn't appear very high resolution, so I'm failing to see what about this is first or even particularly novel about it. The only first I see is the specific things they used.

Ah, indeed, I have found a link: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/candyfab

If that isn't counting reverse paths a->b->c = c->b->a then you can halve that, as they are the same.

There are plenty of optimizations on TSP, the problem is that the worst case is what gets nasty. There are also things which will give an estimate (1.5x shortest, if I recall correctly) if some conditions are met.

It's the only place people can get VMS, or HP's UNIX.

Which is a shame, because VMS has some interesting and nice features, so even if it weren't used wholesale, more exposure could lead to other OSes implementing them.

A tip: Quite often 7zip will be able to extract those 'executables' without having to run them.

802.11a fixed devices/networks are fairly rare (802.11a clients are fairly common, as part of abgn cards, but I've seen a number of seemingly bgn only cards. (They might be capable of a and not well documented, or they might be limited to the 2.4GHz band, either way, they strike me as dodgy so I don't have first hand experience with them.)

If you want an adhoc for transferring, I would usually suggest A if both are capable of it.