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Comment Next up - HD Transistors (Score 1) 141

What other trending marketing buzzwords can we apply to unrelated technology to get attention? Social Transistors? Transistors 2.0? Cloud Transistors? Tablet Transistors? iTransistor. What would truly be remarkable would be to develop a 2-dimensional transistor. Infinite layers of them with no height added to the die - and it'd still be slim enough to fit in a tablet!

Comment Includes the "magic 200-line" task grouping patch? (Score 2) 135

Looking through the changelog I couldn't find anything immediately evident about whether or not the "200-line kernel patch which does wonders" was included in this release or not. Here is the related original post. Anybody know if it will be in there for certain? I may have to remove my Ubuntu alternative workaround outlined in the subsequent article before doing an upgrade.

Comment Re:I use Dvorak, you insensitive clod... (Score 1) 423

The longest left-handed word is "okupukupu" - some fern plant. Not terribly interesting because you lose a lot of characters to punctuation

grep -i '^[pyaoeuiqjkx]\{9,\}$' /usr/share/dict/words

The longest right-handed word cannot have vowels, but the first results are...

grep -i '^[fgcrldhtnsbmwvz]\{6,\}$' /usr/share/dict/words
BSFMgt
BSGMgt
crwths
ftncmd
MSGMgt
mtscmd
SSTTSS
WWMCCS

The homerow results are much more interesting.

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