Delphi targets Windows, OS X, iOS and Android.
Does it now? When they put out the Linux version i think they depended on Wine... just for the IDE or for the compiled apps, I can't remember.

Aye aye. AMD drivers have been shit on Linux for like forever. Your only option there is to get a NVidia card. If it draws less power than the competition like now, it's even better.

... or simply something procedural but higher level, like, for example, Python?
D is a better C++, but not many people need a better C++.

Actually if you're the copyright holder for something you can license it in as many ways as you want. It doesn't make much sense if one of those options isn't GPL though.

I guess they come with the optical drive from the factory, and removing it is extra labor. Also, now they have to store a drive nobody wants :)

Actually it's more expensive than a retina macbook pro with the same specs. $2359 "earlier bird" price vs $1999 for a rMBP, if you configure the Librem with a 250 Gb SSD, 16 G ram and the hi res display. The CPU seems to be the same. You do get an optical drive, if you care about those things.
The 'normal' price if you miss all "early-ish" bird discounts is $2609 for the same configuration.

But considering they're only doing a 500 unit run as opposed to a few million for Apple, i think it's a pretty good price.

Thanks! I always confuse Sheckley and Silverberg :)
It seems to be available legally online on Project Gutenberg, if you found the article interesting go read it for a laugh: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebook...

There was that old sf story by Robert Silverberg, I think, that went like this: They made automated police drones (they weren't called drones back then) that prevented any violent crime from happening. Unfortunately they had learning circuits and decided even killing animals for food or harvesting crops was violent crime, and the society ended up starving. The solution was to create a new kind of drone to kill the existing drones - but this also had learning circuits and it decided it had to kill everyone.
Looks pretty realistic these days. Anyone remember the name of the story, and the author if i got it wrong?

I suppose the "laptop" is usable only with high end noise canceling headphones? And if someone else is in the same building with you, they'll come and smash it with a hammer to get rid of the whirrrrr.

Wish i had mod points ;)

I agree with you about the unfair treatment of AMD, but Linux graphics drivers have been shitty since Ati was an independent company. Just get a NVidia card if you want 3D in Linux. Inquire about Ati in another 5 years.

I run mostly OS X these days, and do work with native OS X apps or inside Linux VMs, but I have a Windows 7 installation for games. However, over the past few years an interesting thing has happened: I can't be bothered to reboot any more. If a game has a Mac version or runs in Wine, I'll play it. The rest of my Steam collection of 200+ titles is gathering virtual dust.
So not only I'm still on 7, but I don't use that at all any more.
What's that Windows 8 thing that everyone is talking about?

As they don't usually have Thunderbolt, or if they do they boot differently.

What about the transparent aluminium?