A noticeable difference is that by cross-breeding the changes are slow (minor per generation), whereas by GM they can be huge (glowing mice). When some scientist has a bad morning, and releases his latest frankenstein into the wild, we could be majorly **-ed. So natural selection acts as a fail-safe against one mistake.

The PS3 had full ps2 emulation and linux, they stripped that out on subsequent versions. Even now, the latest games don't play without the latest OS updates. So expect a very small set of working games if you aren't prepared to update.

I wouldn't have a clue, but other people do, luckily: http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/

Also, the torrent protocol offers parts of the solution: everyone stores a small part of the addresses. Which part to store is determined by the unique 128-bit number you've chosen. So even if everyone just knows how to get a little bit closer to the data/address you're looking for, that's good enough. A few query/response iterations should give you what you're looking for.

Or they keep them just because you learn something else; that it'll be like that in your future job.

And a proper grasp of statistics, to separate coincidence from significant correlation. The PhD does help in that department.

I've seen how that goes. There is a large amount of code on top of the system/metal work that needs to be highly efficient. Due to the sometimes complex nature of the problems, a high-level language with access to low-level stuff for the hot-spots is required. C++ is lonely at the top in that regard. Python is awesome for glue-ing stuff together, but try to do too much in it, and the result will be horribly slow

They talk directly to manufacturers, since windows is still installed by default. So the swing they have on the whole laptop market just became a bit more visible, it's always been there, however.