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Somebody saw Play and got scared.

He would have had a point, had he not a Facebook presence. Yes, it is very easy to avoid having a Facebook page: just don't make one.

Why the Windows stack though?

The delicious irony is that article which is published in The Economist makes no mention of rampant irreproducibility in the field of economics. Honi soit...

Unfortunately, I've come to see such articles with immediate suspicion.

Not using flyspeck grey fonts on light gray background in a tiny column on a vast screen is more important for readability than it seems.

First world kid problems.

Much too late. If something is not plain text or PDF/A it has already bitrotted away, or is well on its way.

The Web is an ephemeral enterprise.That's why everything relevant has a DOI and not an URI.

The node size do not correspond to a given dimension of a structure anymore, it's computed property, from area of a given standard cell (e.g. SRAM cell).

I don't. The Linux ecosystem is no longer salvageable, so I've started moving to FreeBSD. This should buy me another 20 years, after which I won't be bothered anyway.

The whole essence of overshoot and die-off is due to running into limits in a finite world.

Any sophisms detracting from that basic facts are criminally insane, or just criminal.

Pretty much the same reason why I'm slowly moving to FreeBSD. OpenBSD is another possibility.

Mirror?

Have you looked at (really) random-access memory bandwidth?

This is why I don't trust ARM. The only way to really make sure is to synthesize your CPU core, and put it into the FPGA (though there are FPGAs shipped with backdoors as well).

This was the final straw that broke the camel's back and the reason why I'm transitioning to the *BSD ecosystem.

He seems to think in his comparison Debian comes on top.

However, the points which he thinks are where Debian is stronger illustrate precisely where Linux has lost its way. Laptop support is lacking -- assuming you care about laptops, and care about suspend working out of the box. Guess what, suspend didn't work out of the box under Debian, either.

Storage, he's forgetting that zfs is both a filesystem, and a volume manager.

Support of alien file systems, really? Irrelevant for servers, for everything else mount it via NFS.

Virtualization -- between jails and Virtual Box (on desktops) what is the use case for a different product here?

Nothing like Dropbox -- that's not a bug, it's a feature.

Desktop environments need configuration -- why I am migrating from Linux, you think? If I already have to use alternative window managers and desktops on Linux, where is the big difference?

Package managers, now that is a good point. XML config, that too. Nigh everything else is missing the point.

> When the big debate about systemd was going on, I couldn't really care less.

> Now, I'm just not so sure. The feature creep here is remarkable.

Now you know why we had that acrimonious debate. This is precisely what was obvious right from the start.

Linux is Windows NT now, the only way to have a decent nix is to pick BSD.

I am switching to *BSD.

Of course Linux wouldn't run on a parallel system, so "four cores ought to be enough for everybody" Linus is correct, as far as Linux goes.

Did you receive a copy of signed work contract? If not, you have no case.

Because I want to read text, not run some unknown code on my machine.

If you're not showing plain text with JS off then you're bonkers, and I don't really need your site.

Not just the proliferation resistance is a myth, but there are several others making the round: http://www.whatisnuclear.com/articles/thorium_myths.html

A few myths found: http://www.whatisnuclear.com/articles/thorium_myths.html

Let's say you have 400 MUSD, or a ton of gold, and it becomes widely known.

I'm surprised it took so long, and he didn't suffer ballistic lead poisoning instead.

> XP in your VM is still EOL

Doesn't matter that much if it's on a private network.

> Also, you double your licensing costs.

Not if the OS and virtualization solution require no license.

If you're migrating off XP you should equally consider migrating to Linux.

Sure thing http://www.adapteva.com/white-papers/building-the-worlds-fir...

Each TigerSHARC-like DSP core has 32 kByte embedded memory, and memory-like access to other core's memory space. The system has GBit Ethernet, runs Linux and takes only 2-3 W power.

This is ideal cluster material.