The straight sections help focus the beams down into tighter bunches

He was saying you don't have to cast

since you wouldn't even need to recompile applications for different platforms if the backend is handled properly.

I'd say that's a huge "if", given the number of apps that put the "magic" in C shared libraries to make it easier to port to different platforms

Intel has a mountain of money, the various ARM SoC guys have a pretty large revenue stream (though it's fragmented...). Is it reasonable to say that Intel's money they have to devote to pushing their power usage down is large enough to overcome ARM's advantage, or does ARM have some sort of inherent advantage (+ ARM's supporters' money) that will keep them at least at parity?

Which is why someone needs to make a fully functional LibreOffice for Android.

I'm still waiting for someone to make a fully functional (Libre|Open)Office for my desktop...

Do you think someone broke into your Skype account to call 5 random countries? They're all toll numbers in Africa. The damage is done and you lost

The speed limit is the speed other drivers expect you to be driving at

Absolutely not. I-88 outside of chicago (part of my commute) has a speed limit of 55, and the only two times I've ever seen people traveling under 70 was in rain or if there was a cop in the median. Every city I've lived in has the same effect.

Speed limits are a number of things, but they're certainly not "the speed other drivers expect you to be driving at"

I don't think we're that far apart. Certainly the idea that a university should ban everything is stupid. I was just saying that people who dedicate their lives to teaching appreciate students that pay attention and succeed. Saying: "why should the teachers care if the students or pass" disregards why those people enter education compared to other careers

I might as well have just stopped reading your post there, they might lock you in to studying with them for 4 years but you are allowed to move off campus you know.

Many universities don't allow you to move out of the dorms (the cynic in me says it's for the $$, but who knows). I went to a tiny school in a really rural location and even if we wanted to move out, there were more students in the town than actual people in the town (1400 students, 800 residents), so it would've never worked to have people spread around.

Then why are you bitching about it on Slashdot? Chances are, none of us are the administration you're railing against. It *is* their network and their rules. If you don't like the food, the internet, the dorms then your options are to complain to them or leave. If it's not providing the things you want to have, then you've probably made a bad choice when you were applying to schools. (assuming they didn't mislead you on what they were providing)

  My university didn't allow cable TV in the dorms (they didn't even have the hookups), and I didn't run around trying to find a few miles of coax to string a cable to my room. They also have an amazing cafeteria, and I love eating food, so it made a lot of sense to go there :)

Besides, why should the tutors care? - If people waste the lessons updating Facebook instead of getting smart, they'll simply fail and thus have wasted their tuition. I hope Facebook was worth it, but the tutors shouldn't care less if the students are that stupid.

Because most teachers go into teaching to get students to learn? Because a lot of institutions tie student performance into their evaluations? Because students that aren't paying attention are more likely to distract their neighbors? etc etc...

bluetooth mouse support

I don't wear underwear when I fly anymore

Yes, Shared Nothing does work but it puts a limit on how many cores you can ultimately use. You won't get speedups from processors with more and more cores.

Nope. You got that exactly backwards. As the number of parallel tasks increases, synchronizing shared resources (and other communication in general) starts to dominate the decrease in efficiency. Look at erlang and its ability to run (and keep fed) 10's of thousands of threads simultaneously.

Your example of partitioning a loop into N tasks is exactly mappable to a shared-nothing architechture (assuming there is nothing that needs to be shared between separate iterations of the loop)

I am *constantly* bringing electronics with me when I go to brazil for different people in my family. That electronics import duty is ridiculous.