A topologist and an engineer walked into a bar.
The engineer kicked the shit out of the topologist for using the same words to mean different things than engineers use them to mean.

So read the rest of the post. FFS.

Solar cells on every house is great as long as there is local storage in every house too.

Wind power is great as long as there is good power distribution infrastructure: It's always blowing somewhere.

Nuclear power is great as long as you address operational safety and waste storage, both of which are addressable if you do engineering rather than politics. Part of that is again, good infrastructure so you can build the nukes in good places for nukes.

It's easy to point at any single generation or harvesting technology and identify it's flaws as a sole solution. However there are many technologies and combined together they form a robust and comparatively clean solutions.

If there was any data to suggest the ACT tests are statistically valid (they test the thing you think they test) or reliable (they would get the same result if you tested again) then the correlation may be a clue to something. However when the underlying test is neither valid nor reliable, the correlation it shows doesn't even show you there is correlation.

Layout tools, Schematic capture, logic simulators, analog and mixed signal simulators, P&R, floorplanning etc, etc.
The all have a GUI that needs to be used.

What's notable is that with all these tools, the specific ones I use in the company I work for making big-ass chips, precisely none of them work on a windows desktop. You either run them locally or remotely on a Linux desktop. As time goes on they tend to drop support for older unixes. I don't know anyone who runs these on anything except Linux these days and windows is just a platform to run X or VNC to get to the desktop of the Linux box running the tools.

Well if it does, they can just give up and go to the baker on foot.

1) Screw software, hardware is where it's at.

2) Hard topics pay well: DSP, information theory, crypto, information coding, etc.

Yes. They have good bread and public transit.

>Sounds grea

It's following the lead set in the SuperValu article a couple of days ago.

>rather than trying to break into the standalone desktop OS market.

It's there and dominant in a whole host of industries. The western world would collapse if Linux ceased being available on the desktop. For example we couldn't make chips.

I don't think you design chips do you?

> Integer overflow has absolutely nothing to do with security.

Yes it does. I take it you don't write much crypto code?

>Because, you know the average Linux user is smarter than the nose-picking windows users.
I use Linux and I pick my nose you insensitive clod!

Try disabling scripting in Linux and see how far you get.

I won't fund any electronics hardware project that appears to be asking for too little money. It's a sure sign they don't understand the scale of electronics manufacturing.