Or perhaps Homer's being smart for once by not including unnecessary peripherals. Gus demonstrates.

I don't know whether mmell shares a roof, but I read your comment after having just got back from helping move a relative and her children into an apartment where she does share the building with up to 15 other families.

In practice, you still usually have to buy a laptop with Windows on it in order to illegally put OS X on it.

Flash is a type of EEPROM. What does the letter M in EEPROM stand for? What does it stand for in CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, and BD-ROM?

Xubuntu is Ubuntu with Xfce on top, backed by Canonical. It would have a chance were it not for abusive contracts with Microsoft that all major laptop producers other than Apple sign.

They have "Unity", just not the right kind. In fact, the kind of "Unity" that Canonical has been pushing on Ubuntu since late 2011 is why I switched from Ubuntu to Xubuntu in the first place.

What are they affiliated with now? Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo?

It could be technically the landlord's roof, not mmell's.

What do you mean by "demo"? Is a video of 10 minutes of gameplay enough, or is a downloadable Windows binary necessary? Not all game genres are ideal for the desktop or the touch screen, and someone might be using a KS campaign to determine whether to go through a console maker's developer qualification process.

Let's face it. Windows 8 has been a failure. Even something like KDE Plasma Desktop or Xfce feels more like Windows 9x through 7 than Windows 8's Start Screen and "immersive" apps do.

When my grandma's Windows XP got trashed by fake AV that I couldn't remove normally, I just rescued her files, put on Xubuntu, and called it a day.

Which is why modern distributions include a GUI for package installation and updating.

You don't need to. Apple had the equivalent of sudo in OS X even before Microsoft taught people how to "Cancel or Allow" in Windows Vista.

Better receivers, such as the box I bought in the coupon era, have a button on the remote that pops up a signal strength meter. I don't know whether that just means raw level of the signal or the actual SNR, but it has helped me aim the antenna to minimize signal dropouts.

I F with them using Xubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" on my own laptop. Not one of those furriners has managed to make his way through my Xfce install over the phone, even if I do humor them by opening the applications menu when they ask for the Start button.

I hope you don't mean goat machine.cx.

So store a movie on the first 2 GB and watch it while the rest of the data copies off.

Is your iPad's dock connector 30-pin (iPad 1-3) or Lightning (4, Air, Mini)? If 30-pin, try this product. If Lightning, try this product.

As memory density of NAND flash increases, the controller needs more spare sectors to keep acceptable reliability. In my experience, the fraction of a packaged NAND flash device actually available for storing data has been close to the ratio of the decimal prefix's value to that of the corresponding binary prefix. Thus when NAND flash was measured in MB, about 5% of sectors were spares. Now in the GB era, about 7% of sectors are spares.

A kelvin is 1/273.16 of the temperature at oxidane's triple point. The choice of oxidane is arbitrary, just as the earlier choice of the same substance for Celsius was arbitrary.