There's Mac-on-Linux for that, last updated in 2007:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac-on-Linux

Try GT.M for something different. It's a key-value database, dating back to the 60's, but still hitting hard in healthcare, vets and financial. Great performance. The underlying technology is called MUMPS. Other MUMPS databases (such as Intersystems Caché, closed source) use MUMPS internally, then offer SQL, XML, object, etc layers.

I seriously doubt I've missed the point, given that I was the one who proposed this "port the desktop environment to Android" idea.

KDE is ported to X11 (Linux/BSD/Solaris/etc), Windows (GDI+), Mac (Cocoa), OS/2 (PM), BeOS, etc. Porting to one more graphics layer (Android.View) is not a problem, especially since Qt provides the Qt Platform Abstraction (QPA, formerly known as LightHouse) and we have Qt for Android (AKA Necessitas).

Gnome, XFCE, etc should become more graphics-layer agnostic and do the same as KDE if they want to achieve good performance on Android.

Any desktop environment (KDE, Gnome, LXDE, etc) ported to Android should not use X but whatever Android uses to replace X (android.view)

Trying to port Linux to Android tablets is a dead end. They will get Mer, OpenWrt, etc running on ONE tablet a year. If at all.

The alternative is to consider Android as a different Unix platform, with its limitations, and port KDE, Gnome, etc to Android. More details here:

http://www.elpauer.org/?p=1191

That path would reach potentially every Android tablet (and phone!). Easy? No. Doable? Sure thing.

VAT does not work like you think it does. Businesses do not Pay VAT.

Sorry pal, but that's not how VAT works.

There is input VAT and output VAT.

Businesses do pay VAT, except for later they "cancel" it thanks to the input/output VAT compensation.

But that's only if input VAT and output VAT are at the same percentage. If you are paid 3% VAT by Amazon but you have to pay 20% VAT to IRS, then you are in trouble. That's exactly what publishers are complaining about.

This is not only a problem for publishers (which pay 20% instead of 3%) but also for the equivalents of the IRS. Amazon is paying a lot less taxes than it should in other countries by leveraging that extra 17% in two ways: benefits, and gaming the input/output VAT.

Will this license allow for more than 1 VM? So far, all the licensing vehicles for Windows 7 allow only exactly 1 VM (except for Windows 7 Enterprise with Software Assurance, but that's not for home users).

Allowing only 1 VM is a disconnection from reality. Lots of people are using desktop editions of Windows in VMs and all of them are pirating it, many of them just because Microsoft does not make any legal way available. Stupid.

Because it's when you are back home from partying, probably drunk-driving, or at least not paying enough attention to traffic.

If you are a night-shift worker, you'll have to choose a policy.

Being a piece of electronics that is fitted to your car is exactly what guarantees your insurance company you are abiding by the terms of the policy.

If it's a phone app, fraud will be rampant: I'd rather install it in my mom's phone and I'll get the maximum discount.

How is this new?

In Spain, MAPFRE has been offering for at least 4 years the YCar line of insurance for young drivers which offers as much as a 40% discount if you install a GPS-like device which sends them information about when you drive, what speed you drive, how many kilometers, etc.

If you speed up, drive on "dangerous" hours (e. g. weekend 2 AM - 6 AM), etc, you lose the discount for next year.

http://www.mapfre.com/seguros/es/particulares/soluciones/seguros-coches-jovenes-ycar.shtml

There are several policies to choose and some of them even allow to adjust the policy clauses, for instance in case you are a young driver who works the night shift.

Pinochet: well-known and repeatedly convicted dictator. UK verdict: let go free

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_and_arrest_of_Augusto_Pinochet

Assange: not even charged, more than doubtful testimonies, a "crime" which does not even exist outside Sweden (sex without condom!). UK verdict: all kinds of threaten and proposal to violate Vienna Convention

Way to go UK, way to go.

So when browsers claim to be fully HTML5 compliant, will that even have any meaning anymore?

That was one of the points I made in my "HTML5 for everything?" post 7 months ago:

http://www.elpauer.org/?p=1134

"Or maybe it’s about time to define actual “HTML5 profiles”. ACID3 seems to be too weak of a profile: two very different browsers may pass ACID3 yet a webapp would work with one browser and fail with the other due to bugs, missing features/added features, etc."

If you were implementing a Solaris based solution or something custom based on a real-time OS I could understand wanting to use a UNIX based system.

I was talking about supervision (SCADA) and control, not about weapons. Combat systems run on real-time operating systems such as VxWorks or QNX.

Re Solaris: there are several major reasons this kind of customers do not trust Windows:
1. Developed by a US company (Windows: check, Solaris: check)
2. Source code not available (Windows: check, Solaris: check)
3. Support on old/new hardware in the future (Windows: check, Solaris: check)
4. Common viruses (Windows: check)

A customer which does not trust Windows for reasons 1-3 will usually not trust Solaris either.

I know already three countries in three continents which have moved their Navy's (bespoke) SCADA and ship and control systems from Windows to Linux. A fourth country is already in the planning stage. How do I know? Because I ported the software, created a custom Linux distro, etc. Years of work.

Fun fact: at the beginning we charged a premium for the Linux version. Customer's answer? We want Linux. Windows was deprecated 3 years ago for this software due to no demand. But it's also understandable: I can tell you at least three countries which had to put their frigates and submarines in "manual sailing mode" due to Windows viruses (!!!). Not to speak of many countries not trusting the US more-than-influence on Microsoft, and also some features which were simply impossible to support on Windows due to Windows limitations.