You don't pay for any of the Android stuff, you pay for a device which can run it and then you get it. Sure, you can easily pay for software, but you're not paying for the basic functionality. All of that is gratis. At worst you go to goo and get the gapps for your device, and maybe twiddle build.prop such that you can actually use the store, and then google will happily treat you the same as any other user.

Since you're not paying for Android, Android is not a consumer product. It's not like Windows where you can get it free or you can pay for it; you can only get it free. Perhaps there's some for-pay Android-on-PC efforts by now, I'm not sure. But community replacements for official software stacks are generally donationware and nobody has harassed me for money yet.

I'm substantially more upset about the Mycon, who are occasionally hostile no matter what you say to them. Watch those spores...

We're operating on borrowed time with this many unemployed.

It was perfectly innocent on that front until you suggested it might be otherwise. There's no shortage of men who love to throw money around. Were you going to mention shoes or something?

Sockpuppeting moderation is bad form, idiot.

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Let's take a look at why that is not smarter. You are throwing away the energy density and quick charge properties, and increasing complexity by adding, most likely, another entire charge controller. As well, there is absolutely no need to use an array of supercapacitors, because supercapacitors are the solution to the problem of needing an array! They have fast charge and discharge, they already act wide and not just deep.

You're throwing away energy density by wasting space on having two power systems, and you're throwing away quick charge by including a power system without quick charge. You'll want a separate charge controller for the separate power system, and that means still more efficiency loss and still more cost. It just doesn't make sense.

"According to Yahoo, the information that was stolen didn't have passwords or any other information that would allow unauthorized users to carry out user identity verification."

There is so much bullshit here that you could grow world-class pumpkins that you need a crane to lift on to the flatbed truck (being careful, because it can crack under its own weight, *and then your fscked.).

Yahoo has been terrible at keeping control of this stuff, like the *other* massive leak they had just a year ago.

I used to be a fan of Y! but they started screwing the pooch severely 'round about 2005/6 when they suddenly decided to jump into this "social media" thing (and do it wrong), and it's gone downhill ever since, and the board wonders why Google continues to eat their lunch, breakfast, and dinner. Today, I no longer participate in any of their services at all, and my mail over there is a spamtrap, mostly.

They lost control of customer data, again? Color me unsuprised.

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Don't listen to the asshole below and have as many kids as you like. They will likely be sensitive and intelligent, and contribute greatly to the world of the 21st century. It is also allowed to live in another country, there are a lot of them.

HEY! If that guy really is suicidal you are committing a crime, you jerk.

You don't have to egg him on. There are plenty of geeks on this board who have been bullied in school and thought of killing themselves at one point or another in their lives. The ones who didn't follow through on it (almost all of them) did so because they came to their senses and found a reason to continue, before they met some total asshole like YOU.

(You may fuck off and die now)

Libertarians are people who have never ceased being teenagers and seeing beyond their own personal needs and desires, they have no expectations at all about other people's behaviour as they do not think of it at all. They are permanently stuck in the 'me now generation' like a broken record and they quite simply cannot conceive of a society based upon that principle because it is beyond their understanding, hence their desire for it.

Of course never forget evolution does not stop, so human evolution, drives social evolution, drives human evolution, drives social evolution. So models of extended families can exist but as currently demonstrated they consistently fail as patriarchies however as demonstrated by Mosuo culture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosuo they can succeed as matriarchies.

So a healthier human society requires a shift away from psychopathic patriarchies to far more stable socially matriarchies (it's the whole extended families concept).

Even smarter, not one super capacitor but a whole series of them, which discharge into a low capacity rechargeable battery (that high output discharge will actually extend the life of the battery as it would prevent crystalline build up), in sequence to provide smooth delivery of power. The series of small super capacitors can still be charged at high speed and via a more regular rechargeable battery provide smooth delivery of current.

Nope worse every single time. Seriously in what universe other than Saturday morning cartons does a cadet get promoted to captain of the the fleet flagship after a lieutenant commander surrenders command to that cadet. That seriously does reflect the quality of these stories, Saturday morning cartoon palp produced by a nepotistic insider protected family and connections and massive amounts of bullshit advertising.

That is not even close to true. Many of them were instituted as exceptions to aid the war on terror. The problem is deeper than the war on drugs; as terrible as that is, it is actually a symptom.

Intel will "solve" this problem by simply abandoning the old processors. They did it to the first atoms already; preview releases of new Linux distributions that Intel has contributed code to (e.g. Tizen) don't support them already.

ARM cores are dual-issue now, so that's just not that exciting any more.

Straw man, or at best, you failed to understand the argument. The argument is not that register renaming has a negative impact on cpu performance, the argument is that having more GPRs provides superior performance to register renaming. This is a proven fact; just recompiling some code for x86_64 provides a 15% performance increase for this reason alone (on the same processor.)