Especially since their utilities are already open source: http://www.ksplice.com/git/ksplice.git/ But ya, you're essentially paying for their subscription service. It would make a nice addition to RHEL subscriptions, I wouldn't be surprised if Red Hat acquired them.

Yep, silly article, the CPU intensive work is already in C++; the PHP code is mostly doing I/O. C++ won't make your memory/disks/network any faster. That's why they need all those servers.

Actually it's been more the other way around: a developer includes BSD code into his GPL-licensed project, makes improvements (knowing that his GPLed improvements are safe from non-FOSS software, and yes it does just work that way). Original BSD developer throws a public hissy fit because he can't use the new and improved code in his project. Funny how he didn't care when it was happening behind closed doors, but having the new code right under his nose was just too much.

Moral of the story, if you don't want people doing whatever with your code, don't choose a permissive license!

Isn't that why Google created the V8 JavaScript engine? It (just-in-time) compiles JavaScript to native machine code.

I'm surprised there was no mention of YouTube's Flashless HTML5 demo page. I think it's a bit more popular than Dailymotion.

Have a look at the book How to Design Programs, which was written with a pedagogical focus and is a great way to teach the fundamentals of programming and problem solving. It uses an excellent free programming environment which should make it easy for students to get started.

Nvidia could probably acquire AMD nowadays, seeing as how AMD hasn't been doing to well in the markets lately. Biggest roadblock might be getting approval for that merger since that would leave us with only one discrete GPU vendor to choose from.

This may not be what you're looking for, but when I was in high school I wrote a very simple ray casting game (a la Wolfenstein 3D), which makes good use of high school level math. Here's a tutorial for example: http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/raycast/ It definitely helped me get more interested in math, which is why I think showing how math is used in the real world is very useful (although writing video games probably won't interest everyone).

It's free to donate it and you know it actually gets put to good use rather than sitting in a blood bank. Plus I think you get some real life karma for it. Well either way, don't let the doctor discard it (like usually happens).

And even for those who must have a Windows GUI, TortoiseGit is currently being worked on.