As I said, for far less money you can get redundant storage in the multi terabyte range. My point is this: if i need to store x amount of data in a reliable way, the money i save vs. SSD on buying a spinning disk means I could buy several of them to mitigate the increased failure rate vs. SSD and far exceed the reliability of an SSD for the same money.

Not only that, if you add enough SSDs to store the same amount of bytes as a 4TB hard drive you either need to RAID them or you will have cumulative failure rate far higher than the HD failure rate, which you could mirror (or hell, RAID6 it) for way less money.

... if i need to store x TB of data, i can set up a RAID1 mirror and have fault tolerance for way less than the cost of SSD based storage to hold it in a non-fault tolerant manner.

Internet "experts" poo poo the announcement, because it doesn't cure cancer and settle mars. Claim apple is "done" and how you should sell. Device then goes on to break all previous sales records. The 5, 4s and from memory 3g-s launches were all met with "meh" as far as i can remember.

I predict that, yet again, the 5s/5c will break previous records. I've spent the last few days (going to keep it for a week) using a HTC one. Sure on paper its better than my 4s. In actual use, it's a pain in the arse - buggy and unpolished (yes i'm now running android 4.2.2 on it), this morning for example, the timer i set for 6 minutes reverted back to the previous timer setting of 1:30 and went off at 1:30. Yes, i verified thjat it was counting down from 6 minutes before i opened another app. Cant even get basic stuff right.

Really? The thing that they did that blew my mind was the retina display, and after using one, it was hard to go back to old displays (fortunately android got there when it was time to upgrade).

Like a chromebook Pixel?

It's priced like a pc only in the sense that it's less expensive than a tablet.

removed one of the licenses.

I've just decided I'm going to remove the license for the software I have on my machine because I don't like it. I'm sure Microsoft and Apple will be just fine with this, as the precedent has been set by somebody doing this with BSD code and replacing it with GPL.

for the sarcasm impaired: you can't REMOVE somebody's license simply because you don't like it.

I know a lot of the Linux zealots don't care to acknowledge it, but the reality is that the viral clauses are just a matter of cutting off your own nose to spite your face. There's a real incentive to contributing back patches in that it's expensive to maintain your own fork, just for a few patches.

Let alone going to the trouble of writing your own entire compiler framework...

Phoronix - adview trolling website for Linux/GNU fanboys to set up rigged benchmarks of Linux vs. X, to get users/developers/fans of X enraged and visiting the site.

The number of massively flawed benchmarks done by phoronix lead me to believe this is the only logical purpose of the site. One or two benchmark screw ups is one thing, but to consistently screw up benchmarks to make everybody else's software look bad via subtle omission ro selection of bad configuration is just trolling.

Have you read the CLANG source to compare?

Benchmarks are nothing to do with it. CLANG is more modular, generates better compiler warnings, plays nicely with IDEs and works better with Objective-C, for a start.

Benchmark performance can be improved with time. CLANG was started mostly because the GCC maintainer(s) were not interested in improving the objective-c support.

At 202 mph, they are 1 mph better than tha official top speed of the Ferrari F-40, released in 1987.

That. It's also way better for plugging into an IDE, generates way better compiler error messages, etc.

Not really. In fact, one of the biggest take-aways is : if you don't know what you're talking about (as the USA does not in this situation), and are not personally involved in something, keep your nose out of it.