I don't use hibernate on my linux machine, but it sleeps just fine. Most of the time that's sufficient.

Actually, I do. I used a Blackberry Curve with the rollerball until it physically broke. I then got a free Android phone from my brother and used it till it broke. I have an HP Touchpad running CyanogenMod and I'm going to use it till it breaks. My current phone is a Moto G, and I fully expect to use it until it breaks.

If the vendor abandons it, you reflash it with a community distro. Simple as that...

It's a good deal if:
1) you upgrade every year
2) you take out Apple Care

For everyone else it's not a good deal.

But for most people it doesn't, since most people don't really need a new top-end phone every year.

Renting/leasing a phone (or a car) generally only makes sense if you have to have the new shiny all the time.

It'll likely work out cheaper to buy a used high-end phone (or a new midrange one) and use it till it doesn't work anymore. The long-term ownership is where you save money by buying vs leasing.

I've got a Dell Vostro that's pushing 5 years old. I paid $440 (Canadian) for it. It does everything I need it to, because it's main purpose in life is web browsing, email, word processing, and exporting streaming video via HDMI to my home theater.

For that purpose any of the Mac lineup would be overkill.

So sure, *at comparable specs* the Mac pricing is competetive. But many people just don't need those specs, and for those people a Mac is simply overpriced.

Most people are willing to work to improve their lives beyond the bare minimum necessities.

It's a replacement for welfare, employment insurance, social assistance, old age security, etc.... Some fiscal conservatives are in favour of it because if nothing else it minimizes administrative overhead by combining everything into a single program.

Also, it's usually set up so that there is always a benefit to working more. Claw-backs start at 50% and go down as income goes up. (As opposed to silly current welfare that initially doesn't let people keep any of the incremental additional money they make, leading people to not even bother trying.)

Guaranteed minimum income was tried as a multi-year experiment in Dauphin, Manitoba (Canada) in the 1970s. From the wikipedia page for "mincome":

"...only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less. Mothers with newborns stopped working because they wanted to stay at home longer with their babies, and teenagers worked less because they weren't under as much pressure to support their families, which resulted in more teenagers graduating. In addition, those who continued to work were given more opportunities to choose what type of work they did. Forget found that in the period that Mincome was administered, hospital visits dropped 8.5 percent, with fewer incidents of work-related injuries, and fewer emergency room visits from car accidents and domestic abuse.[7] Additionally, the period saw a reduction in rates of psychiatric hospitalization, and in the number of mental illness-related consultations with health professionals.[8]"

then cloud computing is pretty much aimed at you. (At least if your need is likely to be variable.)

The whole point of the cloud is that you only pay for what you use. If your needs are wildly variable from one month (or day) to the next, it might make sense to rent time/storage/throughput via the cloud.

If your needs generally only increase, and increase at a predictable pace, then it probably makes more sense to buy your own hardware.

It was hovering over private property...which could be against the law in some jurisdictions.

Seriously. I went on Atkins about 10 years ago, *severely* cut back on bread/sugar/rice/pasta/cereal, and lost 50 lbs over a year or so with relatively little fuss. I ate lots of vegetables, with meat/cheese/eggs/cream/butter, etc. It tasted good, I wasn't hungry, and I satisfied sweets cravings with stuff sweetened with sucralose/stevia/sugar alcohols/etc.

Arguably, "inject" generally implies a hollow tube through which the material is forced. This also means that a larger dose of the material can be forced into the wound since the material is under pressure. So syringe, snake fangs, mosquito proboscis, spider fangs, etc. are all hollow and "inject" would be appropriate.

On the other hand, contact poisons (even on a barb or spin) would generally not be considered an "injection".

If I coat a knife with poison and stab you with it, I'm not "injecting" the poison into you, you're basically absorbing the poison off the surface of the knife.

Cloud computing tied to networking leads to the need to reconfigure the network very flexibly and potentially frequently. This is where SDN comes in.

Suppose you have a big beefy virtualization host. You run a bunch of VMs on it, some of which might themselves be acting as full-fledged routers pushing gigabits/sec of packets. (Yes, this is possible right now.) You want to have strict control over which VMs can talk to which other VMs, you want to control which virtual networks can connect to which physical networks (or possibly which vlans/vxlans on which physical networks). Now combine this with SR-IOV or PCI passthrough where a given physical ethernet device can be logically switched between different customers depending on which VM it's attached to at any given time.

Consider the following cases:
1) You want to hot-swap your keyboards and have the adjustment carry over between keyboards.
2) You want to switching between host terminals and virtual machines and have the adjustment carry over into the various VMs.
3) You want the adjustment to affect the BIOS as well.
4) Your keyboard is on a KVM switch and you want the change to affect multiple computers that may be running different OS's.

In the above cases, it would be handy to have a physical "bump in the cable" adapter.