At the same time they propose to route Azerbaijani gas through their country in an offer to diversify the EUs energy sources (and also buying themselves an insurance policy against military strikes), while high-profile western politicians suck up to the new Saudi King lauding reforms in the country with an unparalleled hypocrisy (e.g. in relation to human rights issues, etc.) just because it suits them.
Fuck politics and fear mongering war hawks.

Let Iran do whatever they want, they're a sovereign nation and should be able to do whatever they want as long as they're defending themselves, as opposed to the EUSA banking cartel(s), which should be restrained over their (its?) constant interference and meddling in the internal affairs of other countries.

Ah, feels good to vent...

Oh, how fun it was to be 16 and totally ignorant.

It's useless for me. What am I supposed to do with a friggin Iris? Fuck that, I want a real numbercruncher, even if I have to wait.
So, I'm not complaining, they've got a great lappy, just not quite what I imagined for myself, so I'll hold out.

I can't find the link, but there was something about TB2 not being connected directly to the CP lanes.
Ah, there it is:

From: http://www.anandtech.com/show/...
So that seems the single most important update we've had in years, IMHO.

Hopefully I'll be able to get myself something like a WS 60, but with proper TB support that will be able to run OS X. I.e. metal case, two drive bays, lots of RAM, TB2-3, USB 3(.1), and a quadra or the like.
I'm willing to accept binary blobs on my 'puter for such specs, since I have a Free router that does the network filtering anyway.

In any case, they got pretty close to what I want except for the TB and the GPU. I might get one of these for my wife in order to support them.

Much more importantly, you get a potentially empty bay for another drive!

For me it's the glue that controls the events that invoke the state transitions of the (more or less) optimized parts of a system.
And for many things you can get away without optimized parts. So as long as you don't mind the whitespace... ;) For kids though, I'm unsure, if Python's the right choice.

Now you said: "Un-jailbroken iOS not so much, as its strict W^X policy and App Store Review Guidelines make on-device compilers impossible." And, while technically correct for the jailed devices (not counting the stuff, where you need to be online), you ignored the availability of interpreted languages (most of them turing-complete) on iDevices, which, suddenly, are the only ones available.
So, why don't you ask that teacher from TFA to VB your $200 pee-cees a Winblows app that takes them on a trip to somewhere damp and dark together with the toolchain, as they're evidently unnecessary to teach kids programming these days?

Admittedly, I have no idea what to tell you about the kids, who don't own a smartphone, but have a console, apparently they're his target audience. Maybe he should create an account on MS Zone (or however it's called these days) and try to upsell them VB there. I wish him luck! He'll need it. ;)