If only the PCs on the oil rig had been running Windows. No, wait... So did Microsoft take a hit for that? I doubt it.

Quick Launch is also still in Windows 7. I prefer that. Well, Autohotkey is nice too.

So, AMD released a little documentation years ago. Nothing since.

This is from memory but didn't AMD also explain back then that they can't give out much information because they have an agreement with Microsoft to provide a fully encrypted path from a Blu-Ray disc up to the HDMI input of a monitor, in Vista and later? Giving out programming information would violate this agreement. So, they sold out willingly or were blackmailed to do that. After all, Nvidia and AMD are really small players compared to Microsoft or Intel.

As far as NVidia is concerned, I'm very happy with my GTX 670. Linux support is there and works fine, at least for 2D desktop and video acceleration with VDPAU. Only 3D-ish thing I use in Linux is Google's MapsGL in Firefox. Main reason I chose this card is Windows games. Might play some Linux games in the future again, if Valve is serious about Steam on Linux.

I find it a delicious irony that Google has no problem hosting Transdroid source at Google code.

It really depends on what you like. I like Neuromancer mostly because it has mostly cool, competent people doing interesting stuff. Of course all the advanced tech is interesting too since I'm a technophile. Wouldn't mind having some of that.

In contrast, both Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive are boring. There are multiple plots, all boring and/or nonsensical. The people are also boring, usually losers, doing boring and/or nonsensical things. In the end the plots tie together, but that doesn't really help.

But the parentheses are still completely extraneous and then the quotes can be replaced by a single backslash to escape the pipe in egrep's argument:

egrep -q svm\|vmx /proc/cpuinfo && echo yes || echo no

Yes, I'd say these kind of "small&weird language" countries are probably easier for an English only person to live in, as most people you meet both in and outside work will know English too. Then again, learning a small language probably won't be that useful, at least professionally. Of course, learning one foreign language makes it easier to learn more, you can develop an almost uncanny ability to figure things out of from context without knowing exactly what all the words mean.

In my experience larger European countries, like France, Germany or Spain have lots of people who only know the local language, so life outside work may get lonely until you learn at least a little of the language. Of course, things can be different if you find work in a place where there are lots of foreigners already, like Sophia Antipolis near Nice in France. The weather is very nice there too...

As for finding work abroad, large international companies often have their job openings concentrated on one page, so finding jobs in those kind of companies should be fairly easy.