I don't write java, but I have a standard set of bash scripts I use to generate boilerplate for a new set of c,h files from a template. Writing boilerplate in any language is just plain dumb, if it can be scripted (it often can IME).

I would argue that by lengthening the round trip time you're encouraging them to think about what they're doing rather than just try random things and see if it works.

That's where cygwin is useful. find, grep, sed, awk all there on your windows box - makes navigating projects or library codebases much easier.

Sure he does. Nearly as much as Bill Gates, I hear.

"I am my own ISP" is not incompatible with any of the given choices.

"IT'S AN ARM-KILLING TABLET WITH 1 MIPS PROCESSOR!!1!1!one!!" Some more text to get over Slashdot lameness filter for all caps. That was kind of the point, and now the joke's been ruined.

Somewhat perversely, my linux experience goes something like red hat -> mandrake (big mistake!) -> slackware -> gentoo (another mistake) -> slackware -> ubuntu. Thinking about going back to slackware; loved the init scripts and the way I could hold (most of) the system in my head at once. Still use slackware whenever I have to build a 'small' system, mostly because it's easy to remove what I don't want.

Clearly it's by volume. Those old, heavy low-capacity hard drives sure do take up a lot of space.

Have you looked at Reach LCDs? Not sure if they are to your budget, but they have nicely housed touch-screen LCDs driven by an allegedly simple serial protocol. http://reachtech.com/

No, it still doesn'e make sense. The outcome may be the same, but the terminology used is incorrect. From the summary:

"Today, mobile devices use low-power DDR (LPDDR) memory, the current iteration of which uses 1.2v of power. While the next generation of mobile memory, LPDDR3, will further reduce that power consumption (probably by 35% to 40%)"

Which would be much better stated as:

"Today, mobile devices use low-power DDR (LPDDR) memory, the current iteration of which runs at 1.2V. The next generation of mobile memory, LPDDR3, will reduce the operating voltage, and hence the power used by up to 35 to 40%."

That is all true, but the units for power are "watts", not "volts". You wouldn't say your car goes 33mpg fast, would you?

1.2V of power??!! This is supposed to be news for nerds. Nerds should know the difference between voltage and power.

Just ignore that post of mine; I clearly can't read. Those limits apply to Excel 2003. Excel 2010 does indeed have 16384 columns.

From that link:

Excel 2010:

Worksheet size 65,536 rows by 256 columns

Sorry, 256 columns. My Bad.

...Except if you want more than 255 columns. The Excel blows and Calc rocks.