Yes. You missed entropy. It all turns messy in the end.

Yes but they don't stop once they've formed. They keep on turning - asynchronously - or maybe not asynchronously.

You obviously don't have to work with anything on the web, because the pain inflicted by Microsoft on the countless web developers over the years is still fresh and ongoing for many. There are quire a few people who are only a few more "It doesn't work in IE6"s away from a murderous rampage. That's also ignoring everything else Microsoft has pulled in the 15 years since.

I have yet to see anyone say Sony is an Angel, but the truth is most people didn't use the Other OS feature, and for those that didn't the change didn't do anything to cripple what they use the PS3 for which is usually either watching movies, playing games, or both. There are things I don't like about the changes Sony has made over the life of the PS3, but frankly, Microsoft seems to be worse in just about every way that matters to me. On the other hand, calling someone an idiot, a fool, and insane for not agreeing with your opinion is juvenile and belligerent.

It's not just any strong belief, after all, I don't think there are too many people who are extremely violent because really orchids are the best kind of flower. I think the proper word is ideology. The kind of violence you are referring to requires a strong set of beliefs that reinforce each other and it requires an enemy ideology (or ideologies). The violence is justified by fear and/or hatred of the enemy.

It doesn't matter whether the enemy is libertarianism, collectivism, capitalism, Islam, religion, athieism, liberalism, progressives, conservatism, environmentalism, industrialism, or people with different colored skin. Some people will try to marshal fear and hatred to enhance their own power, and intentionally or not, it will spawn violence. These people will routinely used cherry-picked facts or quotes to justify their position, sometimes ignoring the obvious message to focus on minutae that can justify their current activities. They may do it consciously to manipulate others or unconsciously to justify their behaviour, but tiny little facts that match their ideology will be found to be more important than the massive important ones that contradict it.

And display port exists specifically so they don't have to pay the royalties for HDMI,

The Beagle Boards look pretty good, but they lack a SATA controller and don't really carry enough memory. I'll keep an eye on them though.

What I'd really want is a small ARM-based board that's good for a low-power server; something that can run a simple web site, Tiny Tiny RSS and keep a few git repositories.

The boards we're seeing now are getting close; they have 1-2GB memory, networking and SATA interfaces. What's really missing is the software support over time. Unlike an embedded system you do want security updates and OS updates over time, so you really want a platform that is a regular target for a major distro, whether Red Hat, Ubuntu or someone else.

Umm. You're supposed to mod that funny. It's a joke. You may have come across one in the past but have forgotten what they look like.

Doh!

I still don't know what SLS stands for.

>So you go and shoot the hungry brown people. Presto, they're not hungry and in poverty anymore.

So you go and shoot the hungry brown people. Pesto, they're not hungry and in poverty anymore.

There. Fixed that for you. Pesto fixes everything.

This is why my wife quit education. She was a teacher. She left and got a PhD in education, became a prof and did some of the research that is widely ignored. What's the point of going to the trouble of doing education research if the results are going to be ignored.

Now she has a yarn store and teaches math part time at the local college because it's fun.

That's a particularly ignorant argument seeing as the original post was clearly an ad hominem. He wasn't debating the merits of anything, he was dismissing something because he disagrees with the politics he assumes that the people who did research have. You should already know this. It seems that you are also allowing your politics to cloud your thinking.

In what political universe do they imagine the people of the UK would be interested in giving operational control of a nuclear reactor in Somerset to a foreign government,

In the kind of universe where the one who pays for something also gets a say in it. But of course, the UK is free to pick up the tab in their stead and pony up the needed investment.

However, unlike a TI-83 or a real computer, the ipad doesn't have a keyboard. That kind of sucks for programming.