Its 8.1 not 8 that's the upgrade you plank

.and therefore the most numerically advanced version yet.

I thought 2000 was higher than 8 or 8.1?

I'm wondering what you think looking back at the whole Alpha scene.
-were there any major failings?
-what were the nicest features?
-while the hardware is now abandoned and slow, do you think it could have remained competetive?
-favorite stor(y|ies) related to Alpha or Linux/Alpha?
-are you still interested in Alpha, or have you moved on?

PS4 is on FreeBSD, X1 is on a Windows-kernel abomination, and the Steam box is going to be Linux. Interesting. Any chance the WiiU has secret Mac lineage to complete this?

It uses IOS.

Not Apple's iOS, but the "Internal Operating System"-note that capital I.

But why? When the PS3's came out with its cell processor, it was very unique and unlike any other processor available. The AMD processor in the Playstation 3 (and XBox One) is just a garden-variety commodity part.

You just answered yourself. If you already have an AMD system, why not run Orbis on it, getting access to the games written for the PS4? Some might prefer to not get a second computer potentially with less but faster RAM.

Who knows, you may even start getting invited to parties again!

I thought China only had one party.

Wrong. In the pedantic sense, that is.

If you read your link, you would see he did more than report it: he spent a year running a website that made more of an issue of it than the government saw fit, and encouraged others to consider the government compensation inadequate.

Arbitrary, yes; but it wasn't for reporting the contamination. It was for publicising it.

IIRC, part of the problem is that the font tables may include arbitrary character numbers; if you use characters a-e and m-p, it's fine for the application to write a PDF that maps those like it would map a-i. (Source: my best recollection of the notes in either xpdf or mupdf, I forget which, that I read a year or two ago...)

Ahem...Having RTFA, I see nothing about attempted murder; I see attempted rape, actual assault and battery (his attack), and self defense, with a vague reference to fearing "something worse" (which from the context, sounded more like "more serious injuries" than like death).

And really, I'd see your first step (kill the man who attempts rape) as an entirely justified act of self defense, but what you proposed after that is not self defense. It's on a par with staking the heads of murderers up outside town, or wearing scalps.

This is the kind of determination to be done at trial time, as any one knows. That, is unless you are hell bent on letting this presumed rapist go scott-free.

So is that second sentence. If you're going to try claiming "x is something for the courts to determine", be consistent; it's not reasonable to say that a supposed refutation of guilt should be left for trial time, while accepting the claim of guilt.

Note that I'm not saying that either side is correct.

I know that last part is sarcastic, but...finding scapegoats seems to be human nature.
Which should NOT be construed as saying it's good, or even good enough. But it is preferable that scapegoats not get executed.

+1, Insightful.

WOOSH!

That may prevent more crimes, but it's not deterrence. Deterrence means that someone who did not commit the crime decided not to, not that someone who did commit it is not able to repeat the offense.

I imagine this would be reserved for people dumping tons of toxic chemicals into the local water supply on a daily basis. Provided the right person is prosecuted and not some joe schmoe that was thrown under the bus, I like this idea. I'd like it even more if it was extended to senoir bank employees and politicians in equal measure.

I expect (a) you're wrong, (b) it's the reverse, and (c) that will only happen when the bank/politician gets in the way of the politicians who actually run the show.

So who do you execute, then? The entire board of directors, the guy(s) that did it directly, or all of them?

Whoever you feel like. Including the fellow who happens to have not been involved, but can't pull the strings to get out.