5 to 6 square kilometers. Or 125 to 150 square furlong, in equestrian racing units, or 45 to 54 square kilofoot, in freedom units.

That is quite surprising, because China is one of the world's biggest manufacturers of solar panels, and has a lot of open area with a lot of sunshine. An much easier and much cheaper solution seems to be at hand. This makes me think that the orbital city-zappe... uh... I mean... solar power plant is not entirely what it appears to be.

Secret Service? And we are reading about what it does on Slashdot... Not so so secret, are you?

Yeah, yeah, I got it. No need to put on the sarcasm generator. ;-)

Do they not lease a connection, with a certain speed, and that's that? Data caps are a thing of the nineties...

Is just paying more than you have too for performance, but you get some design in return.

As a developer, it is the performance that counts, so no Apple stuff. Easy as 1-2-3.

Indeed. But in defense of OpenCL, These three pages are mostly initialisation stuff. Once you have that done, the remainder of the code is similar in length to the length it would have were it written in CUDA.

And then, a Hello World in CUDA is about eight lines. A Hello World in OpenCL is three pages.

That all depends on the graphics you use. I run many games on my 6 year old i7 920, with an equally old NVIDIA GTX 265. The card is old, but for the games I like, it is more than sufficient. It all depends on how much 3D stuff you want to use.

Gaming on Linux is done with NVIDIA.

The fact that hereditary edits can me made, does not imply that we can immediately cure all hereditary diseases as well.

Although, do not mistake me, I am all for it, were we able to remove those diseases from the world.

Even if scientists in the Western World ban human editing, there are many parts of the world (For example China; India; South America) where ethics are not always that high up the list of priorities. The technology will be used, as long as there is money to be made by doing so.

From that point of view, we might as well open up the technology for every one to use, and let everybody handle it as he or she sees fit.

Do you have any sources to motivate these rather firm accusations?

But taxi drivers are often weirdos, who hardly speak a word of a language I understand as well. And they often do not really know the way all that well... I have no experience with Uber drivers, but it can hardly get any worse. More over, legal taxi drivers beating up Uber drivers is really going a bit too far. We have a legal system to settle disagreements.

She will have to write articles, and presentations. In physics, this is exclusively done in LaTeX, because of the equations. The faculty is likely to have computation machines in case she needs to do heavy simulations. Heavy computation power is not necessary on the laptop.

I would suggest selecting from the laptops with a very good screen one with relatively low other specs. Because reading many articles becomes tiresome on a low resolution.
For example: Asus Zenbook UX305FA-FB001H-BE

And avoid macs. You just pay more for the same. They are not worth it.