I overclocked my N900 back when I was using it and the speed increase was noticeable. The apps ran faster and the screen was more responsive to touch. However, the increased voltages to the CPU totally killed my reception and made it nearly impossible to use it as an actual phone. I would imagine other smartphones would have similar issues with the components so close together. Tablets, on the other hand, would not have this issue, so in this case, overclock to your heart's content!

This may help.

And I just used up all my mod points too...

But, would you replace your work computer with an iPad? Probably not. It has its uses, yes, but not as a workstation, which was the original point.

You're exactly right, no one is pushing that idea. However, the fact that this is posted on Slashdot (where a disproportionate number of users are software developers, engineers, and other professions that require high powered computing) kinda implies that some of us can replace our desktops with a tablet. We know we can't and never will (unless the conditions laid out by the GP are satisfied), so this is just another one of those articles that are completely irrelevant to this demographic. What's next, links to Cosmopolitan articles?

I'm a nerd, but I also like to get meaningful work done without having to tweak a UI everyday. Up until Ubuntu 10.10 I had the benefit of an attractive AND functional desktop, heck, I even finally perfected my ideal desktop configuration with 10.10, even with warming up to the stupid-application-buttons-on-the-left-side-of-the-title-bar-because-we-want-to-be-like-Apple. However, as much as I like change, the kind of change that prevents me from effectively using my main computer exactly the way I want will drive me away. They could have at least had the courtesy to make the new UI into a separate DE that can be selected at the login screen, but apparently that was too much to ask... bastards. This is why I've switched to Mint and will not look back until the Mint team gets on the idiot UI bandwagon.

We wouldn't have had the chance to. It's not like we had machine guns and RPGs back then. Heck, we weren't even what you'd call human back then. The only way to survive as a large animal was to be able to take on or successfully run away from huge vicious dinosaurs and as far as we know, there weren't any large enough mammals on Earth to do so until the dinosaurs pretty much died out. The only mammals that had a chance were those small enough to not be noticed by your friendly neighborhood Allosaurus.

I think that's why we're here to begin with, or at least why we're not all a bunch of tiny shrews.

If "Lisias" had any intention of listening to facts, I highly doubt he/she would be ranting about how harmful marijuana is. Let's face it, the media and anti-drug people have turned this issue into something that resembles religion way more than it does science. In what other "discipline" do people blatantly ignore rock hard solid facts, especially when they prove their beliefs wrong? It's a shame that our society has to suffer like this because most people are too stupid and voluntarily ignorant to think critically and make sound, logical decisions.

The reason why civilization and technology exists is because we humans above all other species are proficient at altering our environment to our advantage. For most geeks, it's obvious that we can't compete with the so-called "alpha male" in most cases, so the social environment in which they exist is not advantageous to us getting our pick of women. However, what if we were able to manipulate an environment in which we are proficient at to get what we want? What if we were actually able to use skills unique to us and apply those to a different kind of problem than what we're used to? What if we can simply ignore the stigma we're branded with and use the energy we would have spent being frustrated and use that for self-improvement? I know much of the time us geeks are given a hard time, and many of us are down on our luck unfairly, but it never ceases to amaze me how many of us refuse to actually use our brains effectively and to our direct benefit.

This is another reason why I switched over, but I only fully realized why I should have once I started playing around with Linux partitions. It's amazing how quickly you can reinstall when you have / and /home on separate partitions! There are other partitioning schemes one can play around with, but simply keeping a separate /home partition has enabled me to seamlessly swich distros and keep most if not all of my user settings.

Just because you know how to do something really well doesn't mean that it was meant to be your career. If software development is the only thing you are good at, then you probably have a lot more problems than not liking your job. It definitely isn't your passion if you're willing to let a bunch of pointy haired bosses make you think less of your profession. If it's for the sake of peace of mind and personal fulfillment, it might be worth it to take a pay cut to do something more meaningful to you. And there's certainly nothing wrong with being happier in life either, whatever you choose to do.

FTFY

I think Mint and Ubuntu are gaining popularity in very much the same way. JMHO. And yes, a large and healthy ecosystem is a very good thing!