*shudder* Are avionics really written in C++?

Is memory deterministically pre-allocated in such systems? That would certainly make it safer, but less flexible.

Properly, consistently indented Java is. It's just that python has to be correctly indented to work, which is great, BTW!

Except, a one time pad allows you to send your message securely at any time, instead of only when meeting.

I wouldn't want to physically go to the bank every time I need to do a transaction. A one time pad allows me to get the one time pad from the bank, and do multiple transactions securely in the future using that one time pad.

OEM volume licenses basically cost Microsoft nothing. There is no packaging, no retail overhead, no support costs even (support, if any, is via the OEM) and is tied to the machine on which it's sold. Sure, less cash cow now than when the typical machine lifecycle was 3 years.

The full retail version, however, is a transferable license, and most machines come with a license anyway, so the volume is very low, with the associated packaging, support and retail overhead associated.

Buy a new machine? That'll be a new Windows license because OEM licenses are not transferable. I can see a cash cow there as healthy as it's ever been, so long as they can retain their number 1 position in OEM machines.

No. The prescribed maintenance is to rewrite old data that hasn't been written to for 2 months, because it tends to be slow to read otherwise. No-one has reported data loss as a result of this.

Notice also, that all the reporting so far uses the artificial benchmarks to demonstrate the problem. In normal use, you'd be unlikely to ever notice, unless you're copying big old date files from one location to another.

If the child is labouring for himself, not under duress, then yes.

Do you support age discrimination?

1. Open settings.
2. Go to accounts.
3. Remove google account.

There, easy. If you don't want Android at all, buy a different phone. Perhaps a cheap second hand iPhone, or look at one of the cheap FirefoxOS or Lumia Windows phones.

And in Android world, neither Nokia X phones nor Amazon Fire phones are linked to Google.

But this is nothing to do with Google. Samsung have taken android and bastardized it to their own ends. Google Play isn't anything like this.

I tried using my phone without Google Apps, and it is largely usable, but I just missed such things as Maps, Google Camera, even location history.

BTW, you can use Cyanogenmod 11 or 12 with the Galaxy Ace 3, I believe, onto which you can load Google Apps or not, and save you from the Sumsung crapware you appear to have now.

OK, 99.9% of the use cases won't notice. Entire VM copies are probably quite rare, and are generally not an interactive type of operation (you don't sit there watching it copy, waiting for it to finish.)

I've got a 840 EVO machine that's been powered off for a couple of months. I can't wait to power it up again and see if I do indeed perceive performance issues.

Electrons absolutely do leak. It's slow, but TLC is more vulnerable to voltage changes from electron leakage. JEDEC specs even dictate the minimum amount of time of data should be correctly retained without power.

The firmware fix appears to be to just rewrite old data, so that cells are regularly freshly programmed to avoid the costly read error recovery cycles that reduce performance.

I'd expect the TLC FLASH in the 850 EVO to be much more robust against this sort of issue, being of a much bigger process size (50nm?) and suffering less electron leakage as a result.

Personally, I'd be happy to continue buying Samsung drives as and when required, especially the 3D VNAND based ones, with all the benefits that 3D NAND brings. Of course, that might change as other vendors introduce 3D NAND, but it's likely to change on a value basis, rather than any technical basis.

I have no affiliation to Samsung other than being a satisfied customer of their drives. I also have SSD drives from Sandisk, Crucial, Intel and KingFast, so I'm no Samsung fanboy either.

Wow, so you replaced your existing drives with a performance "problem", with some new drives that you yourself admit are slower at random reads (BTW, guess what sort of reads are more important to the perception of speed). Do you really think you're a savvy consumer?

This whole EVO performance problem is a crock of shit. People only noticed the problem running synthetic benchmarks. For normal usage, there'll be no perceptible performance issue with these drives. And yes, I have a couple of EVO drives, and yes, they are also hit with the performance issue. I just don't notice because it's such a non-issue outside of synthetic benchmarks.

Data safety is key, and there have been no reports as far as I'm aware of this issue affecting data integrity.

So you're simply using the wrong drives. The 840 EVO is a consumer level drive. You want a more enterprise like drive like Intel 3700, which is warranted for 10 drive writes per day for 5 years. It costs more, sure, but you can surely justify the cost based on the performance and reliability benefits.

I doubt it. The last thing you want in an unserviceable satellite is bleeding edge battery technology. You want to use what you know works, stable mature technology, and work within the known limitations of such technology.