It sounds like 13 TeV isn’t hoped to be hot enough to do anything "new"; they're just assuring their aim is good. What's next; how hot are they aiming?

Motorola (Google?) is not compliant; they are in fighting Microsoft in court. http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... Arstechnica reports that most cell phone makers pay Microsoft royalties on each phone but Kyocera and Motorola are not paying.

We have separation. I've got a blow-out in damper three! Pitch is out! I can't hold altitude! Flight Con! I can't hold it! She's breaking up, she's break ... --Colonel Steve Austin

Let's hope the hackers don't get a hold of this.

Viewing that page with 4 big animated gifs is a fail in chrome; can't animate, can't scroll, but ie did just fine.

I only use Linux when I brush my teeth.

I bank on every smart phone increasing the demand for a larger and more capable cloud, but the iPhone did not create cloud computing, the web did.

Being a computing professional for nigh on 30 years, I cringe when "computing" and "computer" are used interchangeably. It also bugs me when I hear claims that Computer Science is some lofty discipline that shadows over computer engineering and professional programming or someone corrects my pronunciation of GIF, or [/.pretence]

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." -- Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride

I've long marvelled that as I'm speeding down the freeway, a black car followed by a white car in the oncoming lane looks like a police car: a black car with a white door.

Most OS's and programming languages will let you map your memory data structure to a contiguous disk file so your disk IO is performed at paging speeds. The file system is only touched when the file is mapped (opened). Your system can then be configured to chose to what degree your data is in memory vs. disk.

It's not the CI tool that assures that mainline is stable; it's the quality of the regressions.

Shouldn't your continuous integration's regression suite assure that mainline is virtually stable? Why isn't the call for better regression tests?

I thought Linus was referring to SCM religions, Git v. BitKeeper

Instead of sorting datasets, use a testlist database (flat files). The test contains/links/points to its dataset. The test lists are selected at test run time. Each entry in a test list tells how to generate the specific test environment for the test. A test list entry contains the test, the RCS tag/version of the test to be "gotten", the test seed, and array of exit codes that should be retired, how many retries, whether the test is gating, and an array of tests dependencies. A test run can be considered to pass even though an individual, non-gating test fails. One test entry may extract and prepare the test data and other dependent entries can then run against that test dataset.

Android 2.0 (eclair) lets you store apps on the SD card. The Droid is not limited to 256MB app storage.

Running multiple services on one OS requires that when you must reboot a server because of an OS bug or mis-configuration all of the services are brought down... Same if it crashes or hangs. As compelling as that is I've never used a hypervisor in 30 years on 10's of thousands of servers.

I do routinely use chroot jails on thousands of servers to isolate the application from the host OS. This way I do not need to re-qualify any tools when we implement an OS patch.

Check it out: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vesta/ :-)