The appeal of the Spectrum (as an ex Spectrum owner) was this 1. The Spectrum was cheap (@£128 in these parts) vs a commodore for £228 which I couldn't afford for them at the time. 2. In the minds of those that mattered (kids) the commodore wasn't superior at all. The Commodore was slow, and oversized. You got no decent games for a commodore. 3. Clive Sinclair had a huge personal reputation in these islands. I felt the spectrum sucked because it's basic interpreter was soooo slow, but that meant kids could program it because it made sense of poor basic. The fact is, the commodore was a computer, the spectrum a toy. I had bought for my kids - I think the toy was a wise choice.

I feel more responsibility is called for. Let's take the example that you know someone is has cheated on his wife. Do you unthinkingly spread it over the internet? You might ignore it, kick him in the privates, or tell her quietly. Destroying an inter country relationship could conceivably cost many, many lives. Look at history.

I think this is missing the point. A patch is a patch, and a tweak is a tweak. Which one is moot. The point to me is, here was this functionality for years lying latent in the kernel, as people put up with inferior performance. As soon as the idea is discovered, more than one way of doing it is noticed. Can we have more of these life-changing performance improvements, please, and how? What other potential is tethered by sub optimal performance.

Creative my . It's a good algorithm, I will concede. But very short on vocabulary. Even the poorest sports writer is read before he is paid. Comparing this with stuff I would read 1. The vocabulary is tiny 2. The writer sounds disinterested and random. 3. Too much appeal to odds, without any courage, zeal, endurance, skill, fighting spirit

It's not an electronic whatsit he wants to play with, it's you! There is not a substitute for a person teaching him and loving him at that age. As for toys, the simple things work best. I was given 2 x $60 'activity sets' on the birth of my first. I put him down with them one night, and watched him crawl past them as if they didn't exist to an old wine bottle, which he played with for 2 hours.. Biggest reaction is in having a human talk to him.

IMHO the best thing you can do is build their hope in the ressurection as promised by the Bible. Some very heartwarming promises are there for people to read. It is not actually a good idea to keep memories of a dead loved one in front of people, as it stops them moving on. People who leave a dead one's slippers on the hearth, for instance, find it very difficult to ever get on with life. Revisiting those times will mean recalling the anxious years Mother was dying, and the pain, and will not be a good place for young daughters to go. Photograph a special moment, and have it painted, or give them lockets with her photo there. Snap her while she still can smile. They can open the lockets, or close them.

This is not a comment on the wisdom or otherwise of your suggestion, but of practical value. I have a (rooted) HTC dream and if you go that route, replace the battery with one of the double size 2200 mAh ones you can buy on ebay. Also check sensitivity. As a GPS device, my phone is disappointing, because, for instance, it showed me on the wrong one of two parallel roads while I was trying to navigate with it. Other devices receive a poor signal better. But I can't talk into my Garmin. The phone has that extra advantage of an SOS call, and 'Latitude' which allows geolocation if he breaks his backside in some remote area. Also useful is the software to locate from mobile towers, if you can get it.

I got some Dutch thing back plugged into a laptop in the day, Only 8 bit digital, which is crap. (Picoscope's big brother?) It was slow to work right, but they kept asking for it back to add more pullup resistors. I scoped the parallel port with a real 'scope to find nothing was going anywhere near 0V, told them, and they fixed it. Then I had it on a 380V dc Drive, the fuse blew, the inductor peaked, and blew scope, probe & laptop. Burned tracks accross the boards! The small print said something about 500v max, which is also crap :-(. I used a cheap 20Mhz, because if you were anywhere out in industry you could believe so little of what you saw anyhow, because the leads picked up noise. I never bought Tektronix, and never regretted it. Unless you know you're going to be in low noise environments, keep your money in your pocket. Then you put it back in your car, and bounce it around until the next time you want a 'scope. Buy a well specified meter - not one of these 'scope jobs, but frequency, capacitance, etc. The fact is if you're doing component repair on site (like I was), you're a loser these days. You're doing Yes/No tests and swapping boards. The clever stuff is done back in the lab, and leave the good 'scope there.

It strikes me that a goodly number of Industrial companies would need support for older software. The cycle is this: A company buys a machine ($0.5M) and runs it for 5 years. During that time, the developers move on, work for the opposition or generally become obnoxious and if you ring up looking for support on a 7-8 year old machine nobody remembers any of it! As for the approach, if you know C, C++ isn't that bad, but wherever you go you need the ability to keep up to date with many languages, and learn what's coming out. I would do an open source project. Adopt a redundant one needing maintainers, or do your own. Then you'll have something to be hired on. People won't hire cobwebs, they need current skills.

That's it. Get that and google them. I am business_kid. You will see in a second where I hang out, what sort of interests & knowledge I have. Certs are no certainty - they show a professional. But I knew a mechanical engineer with a good degree who was in reality only a 'biro engineer'. He could talk a good job, but niot do it.Previous work measures flair. A short test is going to have to be be too short.

My guess is someone who mattered in google got seriously fed up with the idea of having their servers hacked. That isn't an everyday occurrence in a linux box, whereas it can happen every day and you wouldn't notice in M$ software. It certainly isn't regular for google to be hacked. Now the strength of various password systems are known, and they all can be broken in time. If they are going to have this level of effort directed against them, what can they do? Even if they do they best, they will continue to have trouble..