You could describe it as "guided pixel snapping".

Well, people develop for Windows Phone, and WE are not that many, either ;P

There is a value on being there early, though. People who pay a lot for a "4k" display will also want to pay a lot for "4k" content to try their new toy. Of course it won't be just ANY content, it has to be the type of content that interests people with the interest AND money to get "4k" hardware.

No, no, no... you got it wrong. The managers will come up with a broken algorithm to choose candidates, then re-purpose it into a test: if a candidate manages to turn that piece of ---- into a working algorithm, he's hired.

Native code wouldn't help much for this. A compiler that outputs to a decent intermediate code allows the output to be later translated and optimized to the specific details of the target platform, which has greater chances of optimizing better than direct-to-native compilers. What makes VMs slower is memory management, RTTI, and the consistency checks that go along with a type- and memory-safe language. C# already has bindings for OpenGL/CL and Qt, alongside with many popular libraries, at least for x86.

"falling down on the treadmill" -- you obviously didn't even bother to click the link to the article and watch the pictures.

They mean from before they acquired it from SUN.

The models and dating systems could be wrong. They can't possibly be SO wrong that we measure billions of years and it's only a few thousand. They could be wrong by a few orders of magnitude and 6000 years would still not make sense. Either a higher being made things to appear to be older, or they ARE older. There's no doubt about that.

The problem with the kind of creationism some people are advertising is that they insist that it happened around 6000 years ago. A lot of scientists would be ok with the idea of creationism -- if you allow it to happen billions of years ago as the spark that created life, but then let life evolve independently. But of course then humanity is not special -- unless the creator helped things happen this way for the purpose to create intelligent life.

So creationism/intelligent design is OK, and a higher being managing/guiding the universe is OK; it just doesn't make sense for it to have happened 6000 years ago.

Because my computer is >1000 times more powerful than your 486, so I expect the graphical environment to similarly be >1000 times more powerful than it is on your 486. X11 can't give me that, it seems. Wayland might. We'll see.

I have heard it said that the general purpose solutions (OpenCL and DirectCompute both) can't represent the GPU architecture in enough detail to get the same level of efficiency as using a platform-specific API such as CUDA. If you want your code to be as fast as possible, and you know you are building a system around NV hardware, then CUDA is supposedly a better target.

Of course the alternative is that NV isn't putting as much effort in making the OpenCL/DirectCompute driver interfaces as efficient as CUDA, and what I said above is just an excuse, but I can't prove either.

Your outlet isn't giving out over 10KW of charging power, though.

Hint:

How does this relate to EV chargers and why would it be important to prevent people from using them for this task.

I was thinking more like "Oopsie, an earthquake just off the shore caused a tidal wave to erase the whole city from the map" type event, but yeah no plan either.