Entirely coincidentally, most of the really buggy ACPI implementations out there - the ones that cause the most headaches for Linux and other OSes - are generated by a Microsoft tool that's carefully crafted to generate code that breaks under other OSes. It's probably also a coincidence that Microsoft encourages vendors to use WMI, a way of extending ACPI which means that every single laptop in existence needs its own drivers for stuff like hotkeys, backlight control etc, and these drivers are for some odd reason Windows only.
It's not irrelevant to Microsoft. The reason they can pressure computer manufacturers into installing Windows onto every machine they sell is that most users need Windows, or at least think they do. If people started running OSes other than Windows on a widespread basis this would weaken their position, even if initially most of them had to pay for a copy of Windows to do so.
Google didn't have a real name policy, they had a real-sounding names policy. They didn't care if the names used were actually real so long as advertisers believed they were. So anyone that wanted to set up a fake account under a fake name and troll could do it quite happily, and they'd have the advantage that everyone else was using their real names and revealing all kinds of juicy personal details about themselves.
Oh, and the US government is trying to seize every last cent of Full Tilt Poker's funds and keep it all. I bet their customers are really happy that the government's "protecting" them from getting ripped off by making sure they'll never see any of their deposited money again.
Yep, they don't give a fuck about players. The DoJ is trying to seize every last penny of these companies' funds, and the players to which they owe money aren't going to see a single cent of it.
Actually, according to the court filing their biggest problem was that they did have new money coming in, but as a result of US government interference a whole bunch of deposits from US citizens got blocked and seized or revoked after it had supposedly been safely transferred in. As I've said, their inability to pay creditors appears to be not a result of them running a ponzi scheme but a direct consequnce of the US government tying up their money and messing with their ability to transfer it to the point they don't have enough liquid cash in the right bank accounts to pay out all balances.
Which is actually exactly the same as Full Tilt Poker - they have/did have assets beyond the $60 million that they could use to pay out players, the DoJ is just claiming that they're running a Ponzi scheme because they didn't have enough money immediately accessible in accounts they could use to pay out to players. (The main reason that so much of their money was inaccessible or unusable for payouts was DoJ and US government interference!)
The trouble is that if you read between the lines carefully - and the Wall Street Journal article makes this more obvious - they had enough money to pay out players' balances, but can't access all of this money due to US government interference. Basically, the DoJ and the US government interfered with their banking to the point they didn't have enough money readily available to pay out all player balances at once, then accused Full Tilt Poker of running a Ponzi scheme because of this inability to pay everyone. It looks like players are probably going to lose out, but it's not going to be because Full Tilt Poker is a fraud or a scam, it'll be because the US government is going to take players' funds and keep them.
Pretty much anything that involves networking is beyond the limits of the Arduino, though; the official Arduino network shield actually has a seperate ARM processor running code from WizNet that implements the TCP/IP stack. Also, anything that involves highish-speed I/O to or from a host computer is a pain because on classic Arduino you're limited to a USB serial link.
It's actually even better than the summary suggests: the SAM3U range of microcontrollers also supports high speed USB 2.0 (they're pretty much the only cheap ARM microcontroller that does actually), which means not only do you get a whole bunch of I/Os for peripherals and lots more processing power, you can also communicate with the host PC at several hundred Mbit/s.
Iranian scientists aren't responsible for the fact Iran's leader is a giant asshole either, but that hasn't stopped Mossad assassinating them. They don't exactly have the option of ignoring Israeli politics and just doing science. Perhaps if scientists were less willing to cooperate with countries that murder other scientists, the Israeli government might actually be embarrassed enough to stop doing it - just a thought.
If I understand what Microsoft's doing correctly, it's more than just an instruction set issue: all the APIs that x86 applications for previous versions of Windows used aren't actually available for the ARM version of Windows 8, so it's not just a question of recompiling, you have to rewrite your entire application to use the new Metro APIs.
This isn't really surprising though. As far as I can tell, the only reason Microsoft included plugin support in IE in the first place is because they were hoping that websites would use ActiveX to incorporate website-specific native code, locking their users into Windows on the desktop. In a handful of countries and many coporations they've succeeded.
They added a CA to Windows giving the ability for the Tunisian government to intercept SSL websites at will. (They also trained them specifically on law enforcement in relation to computers.)
Actually, it's worse - the price of labour can quite easily go below the marginal cost of production, because there's no link between supply and demand; labourers don't suddenly disappear or stop needing to eat because there's not enough demand for them.
You're writing that post on a computer which contains multiple components that can only be produced in a handful of multi-billion dollar facilities. If you didn't have one, you'd almost certainly have no way of reaching the number of people that you did with that comment.
To give an example: employers, on a number of occasions, paid members of Pinkertons and similar organisations to murder strikers and union members. They reliably got away with it.
That blog post has one rather glaring flaw: it fails to analyse why there are debtors and savers in the first place and who actually gets the opportunity to become a saver. In particular, it fails to account for some quite significant economic reasons why some people would be financially unable to save money. TFA has, in my opinion, a better explanation of why debt explosions are inevitable.
Microsoft have the advantage that they know what's going to be in C# and.Net way before Mono and they can design their features based on what's easiest for them to implement on Windows starting from their.Net implementation, whereas Mono has to play catch-up...
Sourceforge is quite obnoxious these days; most modern open source projects seem to use github instead. The Linux kernel is hardly the first big project they've hosted...
Was your server ever serving more than a single request at once, or did it ever signficantly exceed 1-2 requests per second? If so I don't think the free tier would be enough...
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Entirely coincidentally, most of the really buggy ACPI implementations out there - the ones that cause the most headaches for Linux and other OSes - are generated by a Microsoft tool that's carefully crafted to generate code that breaks under other OSes. It's probably also a coincidence that Microsoft encourages vendors to use WMI, a way of extending ACPI which means that every single laptop in existence needs its own drivers for stuff like hotkeys, backlight control etc, and these drivers are for some odd reason Windows only.
It's not irrelevant to Microsoft. The reason they can pressure computer manufacturers into installing Windows onto every machine they sell is that most users need Windows, or at least think they do. If people started running OSes other than Windows on a widespread basis this would weaken their position, even if initially most of them had to pay for a copy of Windows to do so.
Google didn't have a real name policy, they had a real-sounding names policy. They didn't care if the names used were actually real so long as advertisers believed they were. So anyone that wanted to set up a fake account under a fake name and troll could do it quite happily, and they'd have the advantage that everyone else was using their real names and revealing all kinds of juicy personal details about themselves.
Oh, and the US government is trying to seize every last cent of Full Tilt Poker's funds and keep it all. I bet their customers are really happy that the government's "protecting" them from getting ripped off by making sure they'll never see any of their deposited money again.
Yep, they don't give a fuck about players. The DoJ is trying to seize every last penny of these companies' funds, and the players to which they owe money aren't going to see a single cent of it.
Actually, according to the court filing their biggest problem was that they did have new money coming in, but as a result of US government interference a whole bunch of deposits from US citizens got blocked and seized or revoked after it had supposedly been safely transferred in. As I've said, their inability to pay creditors appears to be not a result of them running a ponzi scheme but a direct consequnce of the US government tying up their money and messing with their ability to transfer it to the point they don't have enough liquid cash in the right bank accounts to pay out all balances.
Which is actually exactly the same as Full Tilt Poker - they have/did have assets beyond the $60 million that they could use to pay out players, the DoJ is just claiming that they're running a Ponzi scheme because they didn't have enough money immediately accessible in accounts they could use to pay out to players. (The main reason that so much of their money was inaccessible or unusable for payouts was DoJ and US government interference!)
The trouble is that if you read between the lines carefully - and the Wall Street Journal article makes this more obvious - they had enough money to pay out players' balances, but can't access all of this money due to US government interference. Basically, the DoJ and the US government interfered with their banking to the point they didn't have enough money readily available to pay out all player balances at once, then accused Full Tilt Poker of running a Ponzi scheme because of this inability to pay everyone. It looks like players are probably going to lose out, but it's not going to be because Full Tilt Poker is a fraud or a scam, it'll be because the US government is going to take players' funds and keep them.
The US government is very much involved in this.
Pretty much anything that involves networking is beyond the limits of the Arduino, though; the official Arduino network shield actually has a seperate ARM processor running code from WizNet that implements the TCP/IP stack. Also, anything that involves highish-speed I/O to or from a host computer is a pain because on classic Arduino you're limited to a USB serial link.
It's actually even better than the summary suggests: the SAM3U range of microcontrollers also supports high speed USB 2.0 (they're pretty much the only cheap ARM microcontroller that does actually), which means not only do you get a whole bunch of I/Os for peripherals and lots more processing power, you can also communicate with the host PC at several hundred Mbit/s.
Iranian scientists aren't responsible for the fact Iran's leader is a giant asshole either, but that hasn't stopped Mossad assassinating them. They don't exactly have the option of ignoring Israeli politics and just doing science. Perhaps if scientists were less willing to cooperate with countries that murder other scientists, the Israeli government might actually be embarrassed enough to stop doing it - just a thought.
If I understand what Microsoft's doing correctly, it's more than just an instruction set issue: all the APIs that x86 applications for previous versions of Windows used aren't actually available for the ARM version of Windows 8, so it's not just a question of recompiling, you have to rewrite your entire application to use the new Metro APIs.
Pretty much all the major sites that require Silverlight use encrypted content, so it is basically useless.
This isn't really surprising though. As far as I can tell, the only reason Microsoft included plugin support in IE in the first place is because they were hoping that websites would use ActiveX to incorporate website-specific native code, locking their users into Windows on the desktop. In a handful of countries and many coporations they've succeeded.
They added a CA to Windows giving the ability for the Tunisian government to intercept SSL websites at will. (They also trained them specifically on law enforcement in relation to computers.)
No-one knows whether h264 is encumbered by patents that aren't part of MPEG-LA's patent license either, so that's hardly a safe option...
It's actually become more uncommon for women to enter computer programming, if memory serves me correctly...
"Any product" being very specific products from Samsung.
Nope, they're suing over every single Android phone and tablet made by Samsung, including the Nexus S, often with multiple lawsuits.
There are a ton of Android handsets and makers, and Apple is not blanket suing all of them
They're suing all the major manufacturers too last time I looked...
Actually, it's worse - the price of labour can quite easily go below the marginal cost of production, because there's no link between supply and demand; labourers don't suddenly disappear or stop needing to eat because there's not enough demand for them.
You're writing that post on a computer which contains multiple components that can only be produced in a handful of multi-billion dollar facilities. If you didn't have one, you'd almost certainly have no way of reaching the number of people that you did with that comment.
To give an example: employers, on a number of occasions, paid members of Pinkertons and similar organisations to murder strikers and union members. They reliably got away with it.
That blog post has one rather glaring flaw: it fails to analyse why there are debtors and savers in the first place and who actually gets the opportunity to become a saver. In particular, it fails to account for some quite significant economic reasons why some people would be financially unable to save money. TFA has, in my opinion, a better explanation of why debt explosions are inevitable.
Microsoft have the advantage that they know what's going to be in C# and .Net way before Mono and they can design their features based on what's easiest for them to implement on Windows starting from their .Net implementation, whereas Mono has to play catch-up...
Sourceforge is quite obnoxious these days; most modern open source projects seem to use github instead. The Linux kernel is hardly the first big project they've hosted...
Was your server ever serving more than a single request at once, or did it ever signficantly exceed 1-2 requests per second? If so I don't think the free tier would be enough...