Most developers seem to be running this from a WeTab, so that would probably the tablet of choice. There is about a dozen devices which are able to run Plasma Active quite decently though; they can be found by a small search through their website.

The whole idea of this system is that it can be slowly phased in. The system looks at other cars with the system nearby and looks at their behavior. If a car somewhat in front of you is breaking, a signal is sent to the driver that something is about to happen. It is not really autonomous right now, but supporting the driver.

Most mobile phones are, as far as i know, IPv6-ready. Symbian supports it, Android supports it (although i'm not sure if it's enabled), iOS supports it. I'm not sure about WinPhone 7 and BlackBerry.

I find that neither emacs nor vi qualifies to be a proper editor; that simplifies discussions very much. More serious contestants for the title include nano and mcedit, but roughly any GUI editor wins from CLI editors if you ask me.

Decent people drink beer, not wine. And since all good beer comes from Belgium, there is no need for geolocation of names.

P.S.: I know that good beer also comes from other countries, but accounting for that would require a different argument.

It may not be a complete solution, but have you looked at BibTeX? BibTeX itself is only a format for nicely stating the information you have available (which magazine, article title, which pages in the magazine, authors, etc), but in the entire BibTeX ecosystem a number of indexing systems are built. Quite a lot of them are for desktop use (so you can manage your own BibTeX entries), but I'd imagine there would be some web-based system for this as well.

Here in the Netherlands we have a law (of which i'm not sure if it's a European or just a Dutch law) which allows anyone to receive all data broadcast through the airwaves and listen to/read it, as long as it is all unencrypted or plainly audible. Since the networks were open, i'd say it's just a use of that law and nothing illegal happened. If you put anything into the air unencrypted, it is for anyone to receive. Thinking otherwise is stupid and naive (and hence done by 90% of the population)

I'd say Trolltech has managed to make a open-source technology (Qt) profitable. Be it by first making it not 100% completely free open-source (via QPL and later as a GPL-library), but eventually it is not free and by working with a large open source project (KDE), the momentum for using Qt has increased a lot. Without KDE, Qt wouldn't have been where it is now (and vice versa). It's about taking a large collection of open source code, and selling services/support on at least a part of it. If the added value for paying is high enough, companies will pay.

I have participated in plenty of contests and know enough about the rules to say that you don't have to worry about runtime and memory usage differences between programming language. Depending on the language used, a solution can take longer or use more memory so that the programming language is pretty much moot and the algorithm is the important bit.

Usually, the runtimes are used to filter algorithms to ones that use the correct runtime. If a problem is about sorting, they will want a O(n log n) algorithm. Nearly any O(n log n) algorithm will work and anything higher (usually O(n^2)) will fail.

Now that we've leveled the playing field we can get to the language features. My language of choice for these contests is C++ for two reasons. The first one is personal: i know C/C++ pretty well. The second one is a main advantage: the C++ STL provides a larger number of containers and standard algorithms with runtime guarantees which greatly speed up writing code if you know how to use them. Many of the newer languages do provide these kinds of libraries, but in my limited experience with the other languages i have been unable to like them as much as the STL for this purpose. The fact that you have runtime guarantees in the STL makes it particularly suited for this contests, where runtime is key.

In the end it all depends on what you want to teach tho. I would dare to dive into C++ with new students, as long as they are eager to learn and show a reasonable level of thinking like a programmer. If you know a lot more about python and can explain and use the algorithmic basics of runtime and memory usage well in python, go ahead and use python. Any language which allows you to strictly adhere to runtime instructions will work.

You can see he made the human in his own image...