What we need is clean fork of Firefox which would have some kind of h264 support. It should follow otherwise upstream as closely as possible and be 100% compatible with extensions and themes. Of course MozCos trademarks should be avoided. So, a catchy domain, few devs and some marketing, and MozCos stubbornness wouldn't matter anymore. I'd guess even Google could help to sponsor this kind of project, as it's in their interest to get the format war over.

I know everyone hates Microsoft and its eeevil proprietary technologies but still, it can achieve nice things. A javascript library which parses python script-tags via Silverlight. Check it out: http://visitmix.com/labs/gestalt/

There isn't a single Nehalem die/chip. Nehalem refers to the general architecture on which Lynnfield, Bloomfield etc chips are based on.

Lots and lots of tests and bechmarks. Looking good.

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I think LGA 1366 will live on as the high-end platform it always has been. LGA 1156 will be middle-end, and 775 in low-end and legacy.

I'd be interested to know how would a highly clocked, 8 core, ARM based CPU made at 45nm process and fitted to be compatible with some current tech (PCIe 16x for GPU and DDR3 memory) compare to anything offered at desktop market now. Of course there is the little problem with no actual software optimized for that kind of architecture.

Best bang for buck CPU's are in the sub-$100 segment, maybe some dual-core Athlon, especially if you take the whole system cost into account. Lynnfield is designed for much bigger bang, at much higher cost, with lots of new tech (new socket, "new" memory(ddr3) etc).

Instead of asking best bang/buck, ask for largest bang at certain price point for cpu-mb-ram -combo. Also upgradability/longevity of the platform should be considered. With the new lynnfields you have large probability to have a viable upgrade path in the future, but with s775 its not as certain. Imho choosing CPU has never been more difficult than what it is now with i5 out. On the other hand, luckily most CPU's are powerful enough for average desktop usage. While some other CPU could be 10% faster than other in certain benchmark, in real life usage the differences usually aren't that clear, and performance should be adequate in most situations.

One recent "game" (more like simulation actually) to for realistic graphics is DCS: Black Shark. Yes, it runs on 5+ years old engine, and has some lowres textures and other rough edges. But still, I think it looks more realistic than some more technically advanced games (for example HAWX). Another comparison is ARMA 2, and OFP 2. Arma 2 has much plainer and realistic look than what i have seen videos of OFP2 so far. Arma 2 probably compares favorably even to aforementioned DCS:BS in realism, but cant really say as I haven't played it myself.

I blame the fancy HDR/Bloom/Blur -effects that have plagued this generation of games. Some of it hides the fugly lowres textures made for consoles, and some can be explained by the proliferation of Unreal Engine 3.

There is just a little thing called Gulf Stream that could cause some trouble. Gulf Stream currently is a major thing making Scandinavia more habitable, and there has been some guesses that melting water from Arctic could disrupt that making Scandinavia actually colder.

Change distro to something that has slower release cycle like Debian, or longer support like Ubuntu LTS, or no releases like Arch. Using Linux-based OS is all about choice, you can see it as a downside or upside. On the other hand, its usually assumed that your configurations etc(='running the way I wanted') don't break (much) if you update, at least if you haven't missed any releases in between.

Awesome anyways, but the system isn't really connected to teh intertubes, no ip-packets are routed to the laptop.

You mean something like Inkscape? You know that SVG is supported by at least Firefox, and iirc also by other modern (non IE) browsers

It does NOT NEED to have any OO stuff because they already have solid OO-language on .NET: C#. Why try to make one jack of all trades, master of none, when you could have masters of all trades working together? Thats exactly the point of having multiple languages on .NET.