If all you type is a SMS here and there, a touchscreen keyboard might be adequate and the device ends up lighter. But for any semi-serious use... forget it.

N900 suffers from Nokia's brain-dead default layout that requires using a pull-up on screen keyboard for anything but basic letters and digits, but fixing that is trivial (here's my version that uses Shift and Fn).

Sadly, this Jolla thing has no keyboard and thus is a non-starter for me.

But add one and I promise to be the first in line to buy it. My N900 is starting to fall apart...

Ask pretty much every scientist in ~1500 years that started from the reigns of Constantine the "Great" and Theodosius the "Great". The start of this near-total collapse of science can be dated exactly to these two reigns, while the end is quite spread out, with most remnants lasting well into 20th century, with even some bits left in 21th.

Science has seen a brief respite around years 1000-1200 in the islamic word, until the mullahs clamped down on it hard, science remaining pretty much forbidden to this day. For a comparison: with a world muslim population of 1.2B, they had 4 Nobel prize winners, while jews got 129 with a population of mere 14M. The christian/ex-christian world is somewhere in-between.

Neither Bush nor Obama got kicked out, both got re-elected despite their achievements.

And while Bush managed to get the prestigious place as the worst president in US history so far, Obama proven that yes, he can, and topped out Bush taking this precious spot from him. That's about it about either faction of the NeoCon party being any better than the other.

If the AI suffers a breakdown after seeing /b/, I'd say it emulates regular people well enough.

Even if you ship around data in XML it's still not a remotely sane format for storage of large amounts of data.

There's a difference between owning a business, and being merely a hired officer. Who somehow gets to set his own salary.

Dogs want a competitive pack with rivalry as a basis for its social order, and lots of physical exercise. All cats want from a pack is watching over them when they're sleeping.

Even on non-crap SSDs it's better to do this in batches rather than in tiny fragments every time a sector gets freed.

Check the discussion on the high score page. Such "gun free zones" are considered to be "easy mode" as all victims are already disarmed and there's no risk of interference anywhere early.

BTRFS has been used in production on many sites. Including mine, but this might be too small to count for you.

And as for data safety features: a good part are shared with ZFS, including checksums and send/receive, but some rely on BTRFS' internal format, which resembles log-structured filesystems more than classical ones. One that saved the bacon of an under-backuped disk of a customer of mine was that BTRFS never overwrites data in-place but always writes the new version of both data and metadata to a random place on the disk. The newest version of the root node and some recently written stuff was in the area that got corrupted, but older generations of the data existed elsewhere.

A database that can't handle power loss in the middle of a write would break on other filesystems as well, so btrfs is no worse. Except that, if you're ok with filesystem-specific code, you can use a btrfs transaction, which allows consistency without multiple fsyncs.

Btrfs features that break backwards compat are not enabled by default. Same with ext4.

That "glacier" works just fine since many years ago. Don't confuse "in active development" with "unstable". When it comes to data safety, btrfs runs circles around any other filesystem.

Because "Alex" is such an exemplary Romanian first name.