We loose a good opportunity for bloat but it enables Google to compete with chromebooks

About the deterministic part. Quantum mechanics is not deterministic, however if you include all timelines in your simulation and not just a single one, it gets "sort of" deterministic in the way that the outcome is always the same.

If the world is a simulation, then it must be based on a formula of some sort. Mathematical formulas doesn't need a computer or a person with a pen and pencil to exist. So a simulated world doesn't need the simulation. Is it simulated then? It only has meaning for the ones that simulates it, not for the people inside it.

In the cloud, boot speed matters a great deal. You want to be able to scale quickly in response to increased load.

As the press release is in danish the direct link to the english language report is posted here http://erhvervsstyrelsen.dk/file/435579/Mobile_Phone_Antenna_Performance_2013.pdf

A computer is not the best device for note taking. Using a LiveScribe pen you can transfer your notes to the computer, including a recording the voice of the lecturer. The pen makes your notes hypertext because it is linked with the audio at the time of note taking. It makes it easy to navigate in the audio recording.

Industrial espionage has never been so easy.

If you can make XMir, why shouldn't you be able to make a tripple protocol display server. Mir and Wayland in the same server. Is that possible? Perhaps Surfaceflinger as well to support Android Apps.

But it is harder to uniquely identify you by IP address

Too many small assignments outside the issue tracker is filling the head with distracting thoughts. One small issue you have to enter on behalf of someone else could loose 10 minutes of productivity. All because the reporter was too lazy to spend 2 minutes in the ticket system. Another distractor is phones, a ringing phone breaks concentration even if it isn't your own. Fortunately my office is completely phone free.

Will we ever see Ubuntu "nexus" hardware. That is Ubuntu branded hardware that is distinct and shows the Ubuntu vision.

An option would be to collect hearing aids from deceased people that obviously don't need them anymore. Adjustment is obviously a problem. A solution could be to have a wide selection of used hearing aids and let people choose which one they prefer. It would probably require a non profit organisation to collect the hearing aids. But used hearing aids are a valuable resource that should be put to good use.

In europe we hear a lot about like video and books in services like Google Play, ITunes, Amazon, Netflix. But the reality is that these services has done a very poor job in supporting the european market. I don't know who is to blame, the EU for not creating a single european content market, rights holders for making it too cumbersome to add their content to these services. Or maybe Google, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and others are just too lazy or too inept. Who do you think is to blame?

This sounds like something from Lord of the Rings or Silmarillion. I hope they don't have the same corrupting power.