Use big fans, and be picky about your parts. Power efficiency is key, you want something that generates very little waste heat and thus requires minimal cooling. Many good PSUs these days will only spin up the fans when on heavy load, which is a good compromise so that most of the time it's quiet but you don't have to worry about silently cruising to thermal extremes. Also be aware that the noise level isn't the entire story, you also want the noise to be as "white" as possible, because it's often the overtones and such whines that catch the ear. My primary computer acts mostly as a server but doubles as a second gaming PC when needed, has 5 drives and a powerful GPU and CPU in it . . . and because I was picky about the parts (among other things I mostly went with lower-RPM drives that are known to have few distinct tones to their operating noise) I have huge amounts of storage and a powerful gaming rig but it can stay on without much notice. Hell, my housemate fires up his PS3 or xbox360 and the noise level in the room is suddenly extremely high by comparison to how it was.

Edison wasn't really a scientist, he was more just a cutthroat businessman who jumped in at the tail end of the right discoveries.

There's no other time and place I get to look down on cities from above, soaring past, or gaze out at a landscape composed of clouds. I wouldn't want to give that up. I can sit around with my laptop or smartphone or e-reader anytime; I can only see such a view during a plane flight, and I wouldn't want to give that up. If airlines started introducing such planes, i'd go rather far out of my way to avoid them.

Yup, their policies are considered left-wing, and entirely divorced from the hero-worship of the names, so much so that if you rattled off their policies you'd probably get the retort "well that kind of Anti-American nonsense wouldn't have flown back with Nixon or Reagan!"

Linux has had 20 years to prove itself, clearly it is not the right solution, or it would have made some traction at this point...

Yes . . . and it has. Hell, even demonstrated by the article in question here, or does "a big enough audience to justify day-one releases of AAA games" not count somehow?

The best part is, one of the few things we *could* do better is keeping track of guns like that which was used in this incident, but the present administration not only discontinued the long gun registry, but ordered all the records destroyed. Last I had heard, that was being fought in court; it'd be interesting to see if those records still exist and have bearing on this case.

You deserve all the positive moderation (and maybe a seat as an MP, since I have a sad feeling we'll desperately need rational and moderate voices very soon).

You're right, the definition didn't change in 2003...it changed in 2001, because 9/11 changed everything, haven't you heard?

He's long talked of "GNOME OS", and the kernel as a mere "implementation detail". So honestly, you might not be far off.

I'm sure it's a coincidence, but I still can't shake the timing of Lennart's rant. Right when Linus goes incommunicado for traveling, eh? Hmm.

Indeed, like much of what the Red Hat / GNOME camp have created (NetworkManager being a perfect example), it's great technology for personal laptops and absolutely shit technology for servers.

Surely just using a non-web client would solve this too, no?

Next year will be the year of the micro kernel, I tells ya!

I have a Pebble Steel, and it lets me choose between a lot of cool looking watchfaces (or write my own fairly easily, although I've lazily failed to get around to that), shows me the current weather on my wrist if I want rather than having to launch an app on my phone, and being e-ink it works perfectly fine in the brightest of sunlight.

Now, convincing me that an LCD touchscreen watch makes any sort of sense, that's another story. The Pebble is, generally, just everything a normal watch is with a little bit of extra on top. Anything that sacrifices outdoor legibility or battery life, however? Yeah, that's just companies desperately hunting around for the next big boom market because our insane society has decided that profits must always increase, and stability is somehow death.

Dammit, I thought that was included in the season pass.