Linux has been on the desktop for as long as there's been an X server. Is it on everyone's desktop? No. Does that matter? No

So basically you're saying that in order to be portable, you don't use non portable features? That's a revelation...

There's very few non portable desktop features anyway - most stuff gets picked up by all of the environments one way or another. I can't even think of any desktop specific feature that would make an application unusable in another environment...

That's right, they should all use sensible names like "Skype", "Yahoo" and "Google", otherwise they'll never catch on.

I'm sure it'll be fine....as long as the front doesn't fall off...

Just remember that the same person that wants to build this, also declared that Greenpeace was a CIA plot to destroy Australia's mining sector...

He's not quibbling over a temperature, he's pointing out a blatant lie. Musk doesn't make any claim in his blog that the temperature had any real effect - the original writer made that claim, and made a big deal about it despite it being a lie.

So you're advocating for less representation, not more?

Or do you think you can go all the way and switch to a direct democracy? Which, logistics aside, would turn every voting age citizen into a politician....

nor do they have any need to do better than the 4 hour response time or whatever the SLA says

Wow, if outsourcing can get us 4 hour response time, how quickly can we do it?

It was similar on Saturday. Heaps of stories about how parts of Sydney might reach _38_, and meanwhile Canberra quietly breaks 40.

But of course, it's forbidden to ever mention that Canberra is consistently hotter than Sydney in summer, otherwise people might forget the unassailable truth that Canberra is always freezing cold.

Yes, I would love to find a 9" ultrabook. I don't mind the price being in Ultrabook range if it gave you the decent CPU, SSD and battery life of an Ultrabook, in a size that you can actually carry everywhere...

The EeePC901 was the best netbook ever made.
Not only did the later ones miss the point by going to 10" and putting in a spinning disk, but they also reduced the quality of other components like the webcam.

Unfortunately my 901 died, I'm hoping to find another, but it seems that no one that has one wants to sell....

For a replacement, I considered a tablet - in particular an ASUS Transformer, but Android wasn't going to suit my needs (Proper multitasking where the application doesn't randomly close when the OS decides it needs to, and support for all the keyboard modifier keys - ctrl, alt, etc), and it looked like the Linux ports to it were too hit-and-miss to guarantee success.
I then considered an Ultrabook - either an 11" zenbook, or a Macbook air, but apart from the significantly higher cost, 11" is just way too big. An 11" laptop you can carry most places, a 9" one you can carry _everywhere_.

No checked exceptions put a massive burden on the user of your code.

Checked exceptions should only be used when
1. The exception is likely to happen in normal use of the method.
2. The calling code can do something sensible to deal with it.

If it's not likely to happen, then there's no point enforcing immediate handling of it. A generic top level exception handling routine will do.
Likewise, if the immediate calling code can't do anything about it, then it's just going to have to pass it out a level anyway, and at that point your Exception is polluting someone else's API, resulting in tight coupling. Either that, or they wrap the exception anyway - probably in an unchecked one, effectively making your checked exception pointless.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/equipt
See also:
Burnt,
Learnt,
Earnt,
Slept,
Spelt
Smelt,
Dreamt.

Equipt probably isn't exactly standard these days (I use all those other -t words, but would still use equipped), but it's hardly "newspeak ebonification".

I suspect they're as international as the "World Series".

In fact, Wikipedia says they only exist in the Americas (USA, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands).

Yes, that's technically "Multinational". But it's definitely no McDonalds