UV can be used to make scorpions glow in the dark, e.g. http://johnbokma.com/pet/scorp... It also works with some opiliones (harvestmen) and millipedes.

BTW, don't built the one I made years ago. Nowadays one can buy a better UV source online, e.g. UltraFire WF-502B with UV LED.

You're sure it was an Acorn with an ARM processor? Because I can't recall it being that slow. Or maybe the PCs (XTs) I used back in those days where equally slow.

Oops, my bad, I originally wrote "The processor emulated was a 80188 (~8086)" But then noticed that in my first comment I mentioned 80186, not 80188 so I replaced the part between parenthesis, but left of the 8086. Thanks!

In RISC OS (operating system running on an ARM processor, several decades ago) applications where stored in an Apps folder ... E.g. see: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi... RISC OS had also drag & drop installation and several other nifty ideas, some which still live on. One can run a modern version on the Pi.

Oops, Slashdot ate my emphasis. Also, I think it was clear that those figures came from Eltechs as the first sentence I quoted states "In August, Eltechs said" ;-).

This was in the late 80s when (slow) XTs where still very common. I recall running software like PSPICE and WordPerfect without much trouble. The processor emulated was a 80188 (not 80186 as I mentioned earlier), which was used in the XT line of PCs. So comparing it with an AT PC is a bit unfair. I do think it was quite an achievement to emulate a processor at close to the same speed in software.

Of course I had bought the Acorn Archimedes for its ARM processor; I did program in assembly back in the day, and loved the very simple but powerful instruction set. Anyway, thanks for the link. I am quite sure I read the original back in the day.

The first ARM desktop computer, the Acorn Archimedes, got quite early on a PC emulator which, if I recall correctly, emulated a 80186. The ARM 2 processor, running at 8 MHz could emulate this processor at close to 5-6 MHz (again, if I recall correctly).

In August, Eltechs said ExaGear Desktop ran 4.5 times faster than the open source QEMU VM. With new performance improvements, the software is 5 to 10 percent faster, or about five times faster than QEMU, claims Gimpelson.

Emphasis added

perl -e 'print reverse("that") . "\n"'

What is a power user exactly? Someone who has to have root on his/her phone?

Apparently, iOS 8+ crashes slightly more often than Lollipop, having a 2.2% crash rate compared to Android 5’s 2.0% rate. iOS 8 also loses when compared to the previous release (iOS 7 had a 1.9% crash rate), while Lollipop beats bot KitKat and Ice Cream Sandwich, each having 2.6% crash rates.

and ...

iOS 8+ is installed on 72% of existing iOS devices, with Lollipop only accounting for 1.6%

Or: the majority of devices running Android crash more often then the majority of devices running iOS.

I don't know about you but I doubt all the apps I bought add up to 50 USD. As for cables, etc. Apple hardware has a great second-hand value. I sold my iPad 4th gen some time ago and averaged over the 18 months I used I paid like 2 visits to Starbucks a month for each month of usage. Most apps I use are available for Android as well and it wouldn't bother me if I had to pay again for those, we're talking about a few bucks each.

Just saying...

People seem to migrate from iOS to Android and vice versa so I think you're "lock in" is a non-issue. I would almost say that moving between Linux distributions or even upgrading to a more recent distribution of the same vendor is more problematic.

And since Android app crash rates are actually lower than iOS ones

Source?