VMS?
I heard that one is hard to crack.
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I think in many cases people would just be happy to have their property returned with maybe some compensation from the perpetrator. Prison is an obsolete system that doesn't work and costs far too much, and should be phased out for the majority of crimes. It should be reserved only for people who are a constant physical threat to life.
Expect more of this to come until Google Glass is shunned and ridiculed and anyone wearing them become social outcasts (if most users of such uber-geekery aren't already). I can see potential future niches for the technology in certain kinds of work, where it will be very useful and acceptable, but for daily use it is DOA.
UEFI is a bloated piece of crap and is now a wedge for Microsoft to prevent alternative operating systems. I wish mobo vendors would switch to Coreboot (LinuxBIOS) or something simple. All I ever want in a BIOS is hardware initialization and a boot menu that can load ELF images from ext2/3/4.
Current Intel processors can only address 32GB due to an external address bus much smaller than 64-bit. Expanding this would mean more pins and a new socket. It is the future though to remove the concept of volatile storage, especially when post-NAND technology is commercialised. Filesystems will become obsolete and databases would be much simpler to develop.
I think it's the usual case of "those who can't, teach". Why would any rational person with a modicum of programming knowledge waste time and money being a teacher?
I too welcome the RPi as a home device, not necessarily because it's cheap (although that helps) but because it's simple, accessible (from a programming point of view), and not running Windows. It has its flaws such as USB/SD compatibility issues, underpowered CPU and overly proprietary GPU but these can be overlooked.
Dreamweaver makes me laugh. Isn't it just a glorified text editor for people too lazy to learn HTML?
That's one thing Samsung have in their favour. The flexible plastic back covers on the back of the Galaxy S II for example are very tough and don't scratch. Although the side plastic is shiny so is probably more prone to scratches. I've always though Aluminium is a poor choice of material due to its softness. I'm surprised they haven't come up with some high-tech alloy yet.
There seems to be a lot of confusion in this thread. It's really nothing to do with the CPU architecture, but the platform e.g. address and function of hardware registers for peripheral devices, I/O, etc. which vary between SoCs. These are not specified by ARM who only supply the CPU/ISA. But the PC platform has most of these pretty much standardised (first by IBM and copied by the clones, then later by Intel), or at least specifies a way for the OS to automatically discover them. You could have the exact same problem with x86 if you created a new incompatible platform using that processor.