...once these things run Windows 10. 10 isn't a bad OS when compared to 7, let alone Vista, 8, or 8.1.

Is that reliable for the VPN he requires to work?

He explored that solution, and it turned out to be a huge pain in the neck. Quoting Consmerist (first link in the OP):

Then there’s XO, which provides connectivity solutions for business. We confirmed with an XO sales rep that the company could, in theory, provide T1 broadband service (through CenturyLink). However, it would require that either Seth’s employer purchase the service or that Seth have a business license of his own. But even if that were possible, the cost would be exorbitant, starting at nearly $600/month with a three-year contract.

I could see his employer saying "no," and $600/month for 1.5 mbps is highway robbery.

...could make real names for themselves by writing, respectively:

1. code for something kinda useful
2. a RESTful web service exposing the above

Then every web page on Earth can pass the Programmer Bechdel Test just by consuming the web service.

However, I suspect that's not what the test is intended to accomplish.

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s/succeed/fail. Original should read:

No, seriously: can you cite a study with a solid methodology to demonstrate that less than 70% of FLOSS projects fail? I ask because there's a lot of orphaned projects out there that most people have never heard about and that are effectively dead, their code either unused or in desperate need of replacement (because it's not being maintained).

No, seriously: can you cite a study with a solid methodology to demonstrate that less than 70% of FLOSS projects succeed? I ask because there's a lot of orphaned projects out there that most people have never heard about and that are effectively dead, their code either unused or in desperate need of replacement (because it's not being maintained).

Products purporting to be medical treatments backed by zero evidence and pseudoscientific gobbeltygook theories don't work? Whodathunk!

And that will then give me one USB-C power adapter, one HDMI, and one USB. Hub and SD card reader sold (and powered) separately. Brilliant!

I cut my teeth on BASIC on an Apple ][+, and wrote my first professional-grade program (a math tutor) on it when I was 12. I have a lot of fondness for BASIC. These days, if I were to teach a kid any language, it would be Python. It has the easy syntax of BASIC with the added advantages of (a) a rich enough API set for everything from web development through machine learning (b) being an actual marketable skill in places like Silicon Valley.

I'm not saying BASIC is a bad choice, just that I think there are much better ones.

Maybe I can get a Lenovo laptop at deep discount and put Mint/KDE on it.

The feedback from users was that it wasn’t useful, and that’s why we turned it off.

Translation: our laptops are for consumers to buy crap online, and not for any kind of serious work.

Good to know!

But I understand why the poor guy is making it. Unless BlackBerry adopts the Android OS or Samsung changes their minds about a buyout, BlackBerry is screwed. As in, short your positions and make a mint in 2015, screwed.

Their main competitor in the personal computing space is Microsoft. Their main competitor in the much bigger mobile device space is Samsung. And right now, Samsung is devouring them with their Galaxy line of phones, tablets, and smart watches.

...that Australia is increasingly assuming a Chinese, rather than Anglo-American, system and style of government?