Not being in frontal competition with all the vendors they can make something that makes sense, other CPU have 4 or 8 cores and 1.x to 2.x GHz but they're always clocked down and with cores turned off, so the advantages (like what, running a raytracer on your phone?) are very theoretical.

Is there a "MyTracks" equivalent that just works offline on the phone?, I had a buddy install it on his and then it asked to be tied to one of two proposed google e-mail addresses. While not highly tech savvy he just refused the "deal", because uploading your location every x minutes or seconds smells of science-fiction dystopia. An offline KML or similar file on the phone you can load on the computer via USB and then into Google Earth, that would have been more acceptable.

The slower speed can't get you lower power there, the drive is slow when re-writing because due to the tech used it has to do some copy/delete/write stuff very roughly similar to having to erase a whole block of flash to write a single logical 512 byte or 4096 byte sector.
If you mostly store large stuff that doesn't get deleted or don't care about the possible reduction in write speed, it's still fine to get that drive. (good at recording TV stuff you intend to keep, not that good if you're continuously recording just to go back after taking a pee break or in case there was something worth keeping)

Laptops maybe, but desktops seem to be very strong. Motherboard capacitors are reliable, PSUs generally are reliable, chipset is only provided by Intel or AMD with northbridge inside the CPU instead of a separate chip, power consumption went down, memory is decent (around 2002 was when it was the worst).
I believe a modern desktop can last a fucking long time, though you'll of course eventually get one dead component (HDD, DRAM etc.) or dried thermal paste. Or people throw it out when the OS is hosed. Easy to repair (really) but uneconomical if you don't do it yourself. People need to be less rich and have more free time lol.

I hate the culture as much as you but with these fscking computer phones there was an upgrade cycle like what we did when replacing 386 with 486 then 486 with Pentium. At least a computer phone with 1024MB or 512MB RAM and 4GB or 8GB flash is a bit more useful at some things that one with 128MB RAM and 512MB flash. But it's plateaued now : there was so much hype but the massive improvements don't last forever. CPUs had dramatic growth in the 90s and GPUs in the 2000s and now both are improving relatively slow.
On phones, that leaves us with the unacceptable support which have some people forced to go with Apple of all things, or with a dumphone. So now we can hope the phones are "mature" and hope Android 5.x, Cyanogenmod, Firefox OS or Windows Phone will provide updates but being in the situation of begging for updates and not knowing if you get them one year from now is seriously wrong.

I think what you write is weird and it had me check the date. Javascript is JIT'ed already and the browser will choose between an interpreter, JIT or more advanced JIT depending on the size of code to run. Then you're at the mercy of the programmer for it's him/her who writes it and gives you efficient code, inefficent code or code that does too much. Perhaps it runs fine on programmer's i7 laptop when the test browser is not running something else, so let's push it on the unsuspecting world.

512GB or 1TB in a SD card feels uneasy and who knows about the performance.
At this point you could have a low end but real SSD on short M.2 form factor (which can have PCIe 1x or SATA interface), which is not a stretch given we used to have 1.8" HDD.

Have a USB3 interface to the computer even and now you can write at about the reading speed of your HDD. I hate how slow it is to write music to a thumb drive!, esp. when you're waiting on it before leaving the place.
Real computer-grade storage on your MP3 player or mobile device makes the issue of navigating the tracks etc. go away. Scanning the tags or indexing can happen very fast and the SSD controller does all needed to keep latency down and have the flash not die. We have 256GB for $100 today and soon you can have one controller chip plus one (or two) flash chip made of stacked dies.

That is interesting, I seen an open source music player, lightweight-ish that "does it all" (library, file and directories access) written in python that would erratically crash when loading a few thousand tracks ; whereas a Windows 98 PC with winamp could eat a huge playlist and function the same as on a playlist a thousandth the size (ditto linux with audacious, xmms etc.)
It may have improved after leaving the 0.x versioning but that piece of software didn't feel robust.

That may be an issue with modern software, "dynamic" and frameworky but if you push it it may crumble down, or not. Who knows.

The Kim family is particularly obsessed with movies, propaganda videos and generally controlling every single cultural product - songs, books, publicly visible pictures and statues.
It's an autocracy, necrocracy, militarocracy (I hope that's not too terrible of a word) but also much a TVcracy with a level of control (domestically and what gets out) that you basically can't get anywhere else on the planet (or maybe in Taliban-style areas, where they have to resort to banning all music and all pictures with humans in it rather than be able to leverage them)

Kim Jong Il (not Un) was even a film producer and director or he styled himself as such.
I don't believe North Korea was behind the attacks, nor can I deny it but Sony Pictures Entertainment is kind of a competitor to them and they like to have it humiliated, given their "criminal" attempt at defacing the Leader.

I thought the Sony Playstation Network had a big breach with millions of user account details and credit card information stolen.

If you switch to FreeBSD then you'll have.. jails.. which are like entirely the same thing as containers.

Anyway it's the "Ubuntu Core" edition that's new, not containers, and it sure would be entirely optional. It seems to me it's a set of tools to spawn many copy-paste server instances in a gigantic "cloud" farm depending on level of activity or need to scale up. That's trendy but totally useless if you have the more usual need of caring about "that one server".

But a container is maybe like running a process as a chrooted user and not much more if you want to keep it at that. I will liken it to running Apache as non-root and using its virtual hosts features, perhaps that's similar work and benefits. So you might find some simple and boring tool if you ignore the hype and the various competing management layers. I seem to understand you can manage processes with cgroups to get the I/O, CPU, memory limits whether or not you use containers, too.

in DP 1.3a, maybe.

"Display Stream Compression" (deemed a "visually lossless" algorithm) should be or was to be an alternative to 4:2:0
I just learned that it did not make the cut to be included in the DP 1.3 spec sadly (maybe in a DP 1.3)

http://www.anandtech.com/show/...

What's with the decreasing size of 1080p monitors? Seen a 15.6" 1080p and it is fairly hard to use with Windows 7's file manager. I have not tried scaling yet as the owner is the kind to jump at me if I do or change anything on that laptop.
That is annoying for young (enough) users esp. as the thing is used with a touchpad.
  27" 1080p has "too big" pixels but it's what users want. Had a 20" visible monitor running at 1280x960 and it was pretty sweet.

Indeed I wonder if a container is that much different from running a different user. The other day, I was lazy and just ssh -X localhost to get some web browser loading in a blank state. If I could get ssh running with a null cipher and have some GUI launcher with user selection I would kind of have "containerized desktop applications".