Except a whole bunch of OEMs who used to be staunch Microsoft partners.

"HP shows off 21-inch all-in-one Android desktop
PC makers are experimenting with Android given that Microsoft's Windows 8 devices have struggled to attract consumers"

http://www.infoworld.com/d/computer-hardware/update-hp-shows-21-inch-all-in-one-android-desktop-221316

CoolShip,an android desktop computer that looks like a keyboard
CoolShip has a 1.5Ghz dualcore ARM processor inside.It is a low cost home PC,PC for elderly and children,also a solution of hotel PC for guests,educational PC.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/coolship-an-android-desktop-computer-that-looks-like-a-keyboard

Acer shows 21-inch Android desktop
Taiwan's Acer is breaking Android out of its comfort zone and has installed the operating system on a 21.5-inch all-in-one desktop PC that is expected on sale in the U.S. later this year.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2040886/acer-shows-21inch-android-desktop.html

Not a chance. I'm really enjoying the innovation and competition that's coming our way now the Windows monopoly's tumbling. Can't wait until Office is usurped as well!

Link

...in 1971 the recently renamed Kelly Services ran a series of ads in The Office, a human resources journal, promoting the “Never-Never Girl,” who, the company claimed: “Never takes a vacation or holiday. Never asks for a raise. Never costs you a dime for slack time. (When the workload drops, you drop her.) Never has a cold, slipped disc or loose tooth. (Not on your time anyway!) Never costs you for unemployment taxes and Social Security payments. (None of the paperwork, either!) Never costs you for fringe benefits. (They add up to 30% of every payroll dollar.) Never fails to please. (If your Kelly Girl employee doesn’t work out, you don’t pay.)”

You're not a person. You're not an employee. You're not even worthy of respect.

Actually I travel to East Timor (Dili) quite frequently, and since I know that Darwin airport has tag-readers, I can say quite confidently that the nearest reader would be no more than 450 miles away.

Almost all GPU and GPGPU programming is around a C-like language. There is some Fortran support too for CUDA and a smattering in OpenCL. I expect most developers would be using C though.

Oh and add HLSL and Renderscript for good measure.

My point Einstein, is that C is the language that CUDA, Cell, OpenCL and OpenGL SL are derived from. So it's a rather useful property of MagicNewLanguage if it is similar to what people are accustomed to already, preferably allowing them to express the same concepts in a terser but similar form. Assuming that is, that the person who created MagicNewLanguage stands any hope of persuading people to use it.

Lisp code is practically unreadable thanks to all the parentheses without good formatting and even then looks totally foreign to people brought up on C or Java. For example all the computations are completely backasswards thanks to polish notation. A better language for GPU programming would be one which at least retains the essence of C and provides convention based techniques and inference to relieve some of the effort of writing out OpenCL kernels.

"Yes, I work in an Airport."

You may work in an airport, but your appeal to authority is not helping you now. Parent AC is right.

http://www.qantas.com.au/travel/airlines/q-bag-tag/global/en

They work fine, I've been using them for the past year or so.

An malicious app author's chances of being in the top 30 without cause to be there are about zero.

Technically they could come from either but in practice? If I buy a popular game for 99c on Play which is free on a p2p site, which is most likely to be the malware?

And most likely Google and AV vendors are very active in policing the store, putting apps through their paces in virtualized devices looking for suspicious behaviour, weeding out malware attempts, remote killing any installs of said malware. Whereas if some guy who installs an apk they got from a torrent site gets none of that and probably stands a larger chance of infection to go with it.

A "gun" could be constructed from tape, a tube (plastic or metal), a rubber band and a push pin, nail or some other hard piece of metal. It only has to work well enough to reliably fire a bullet in the general direction the weapon is pointed. The components could be smuggled through (or can be sourced beyond) virtually any security checkpoint in the world and assembled. Smuggling the bullet would be another matter but I assume that a small .22 calibre could be gotten in disguised as a pen or something.

I wonder how many of those infections occurred from apps in the Play store versus those acquired through other means, e.g. warez sites.

And "technically" a pharmacist is just a drug dealer. But would you fill your prescriptions from a guy standing on a street corner?

The answer of course is no for obvious reasons. And those obvious reasons also apply when discussing exchanging currencies in banks vs some guy you arrange to meet in a parking lot or wherever.

Liberty Reserve had a similar system of transferring funds and unsurprisingly it was used in the main by criminals looking to launder money between countries. So good luck with your "local bitcoin" merchants since they're likely the exact same money launderers and just about as trustworthy.

Bitcoins leave a digital trail wherever they go because it distributes the transaction chains over P2P . I'm quite certain it's with the government's capability to visualize the flow of bitcoins if they so felt, figure out who is hoarding them and so forth. I suppose certain countermeasures could be used to confuse the picture somewhat e.g. shattering bitcoins, sending them flying through a web of "laundering" services and reconstituting them, using multiple wallets but at the end of the day there is still a trail leading from person X to person Y. I doubt many people would go to those lengths and if they did they're probably singling themselves out by such activity.