The screen is a sticking point for me.

I want a 1920x1080 (or 1920x1200 or higher, but that seems like wishful thinking) screen, and I want it in a 15.6" or smaller form factor.

Apple won't give me that, so I won't go to apple. Otherwise I would.

Actually, I'm getting ~200Mb/s from 802.11n. It does happen.. if you're lucky, and pick the right card/AP combination.

(Intel 4965 and DAP-2553, for the curious)

The light gets shut down, and it goes dark?

That's.. poetic, I guess, but it's not irony.

Princess Mononoke?

Do tell. I expect that was an amusing scene, unless the kids started crying enough to ruin your enjoyment. It could be worse, though - I sat through the same situation, with *Ghost in the Shell*.

For kids. Right.

That's silly. There's nothing in Honeycomb that would require a dual-core CPU.

It may be that it'd run faster on a dual-core (doh?), but I'm not sure how you would even go about making an open-source OS that would genuinely fail to run on single-core machines. Not to forget that it's actually running Linux, which definitely has no such restrictions..

So you check the answer and, if it's wrong, try again until it isn't.

The probabilistic correctness isn't an issue except in toy problems, especially as you could in the limit just repeat the operation until the chance of it going wrong is less than the chance of the operator going wrong.

Once the expected future time cost of a spammer exceeds a human lifetime, it becomes possible to consider killing him.

This guy costs probably several hundred lifetimes a year.

Any questions?

By that logic there's no difference to swimming in shark-infested and jellyfish-infested waters - you could die in either one, so who cares that the sharks are roughly a thousand times less likely to attack you?

(I wanted to make an analogy with some kind of *safe* waters, but.. um... today's internet. Shark-infested it is.)

As people keep saying, you *may* use this optional standard.. as a replacement for an older standard where startup is *even slower*.

Odd how that goes.

Are you quite sure that's actually Chrome? Slashdot's javascript does rather suck.

This would be why we use extents rather than pure bitmaps, these days.

Don't remind me. I still have nightmares of trying to implement rename() for a distributed filesystem.

Do you think this is a good or a bad thing? Why?

You don't need a data plan to use android market; it works fine on wifi. Just saying. ;)

Though using an android without that is really missing the point. A pay-as-you-go data plan isn't that expensive, is it?

And on the japanese side:

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