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Yes right, this thread is a garbage collection.

By default no, everything is stack allocated (which is of course way faster). But you can also easily use so-called boxed types which are heap-allocated, with various ownership modes. FWIW I'm really sold to Rust's concepts, but a bit less on the implementation: effectively as soon as you do half-complex things your implementation becomes not that readable, and not that easy to code. Maybe it's because I need more experience, I still don't know.

#4 doesn't work on all phones (does it on some ?) and would prevent you from upgrading your rom (so no security fixes) #10 is stupid on many points on flash-based devices, which smartphones are

Just leave your kids to their grandparents, so you can still see them as often as you wish. Best of both worlds.

http://lwn.net/ is the only news source I'm paying for.

The problem I see is that fines will darken the water, and coral has a symbiotic algae that obviously needs sunlight to survive and feed its host. No light = dead coral.

Do you have a reference for that ? I'm genuinely interested.

She's in Europe. Have no fear (for her).

mod parent up !

The only thing I'm interested in, is how about the linux support ? AMD has been quite good lately, Dell has been so-so. With Dell buying AMD, I'm fearing linux support will go down.

People seem to follow your advice :)

I've been watching the stock plummet since this morning. Now it's at -13%, steadily going down. http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=NOA3.DE

I think I'll stay with my N900 for a while yet. It works very well for my uses, it starts getting community updates. Maybe I'll try NITDroid when it's working a bit more. Afterwards, well ... how about a GTA04 ? Or some kind of android phone if one appears to be open enough.

You should definitely enter this contest.

This ! I want a mode with *only* content on the page.

Not that practical to do on my phone. Please oh please can I have a close button on that stupid sidebar ? Thanks you.