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cobolorum

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    Comment #7781778

    As an operating system for a dedicated, single purpose server this may be okay. As an operating system for mobile phones, this may one day be alright (when phones get about 12 core…

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    Comment #7143352

    IMHO, best ASM tutorial ever.

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    Comment #7007157

    ITT: people who believe there is a difference between Republicans and Democrats.

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    Comment #6947141

    I just wish that their ruling was a little more broad and far reaching in its effect. For those like myself who believe in self-ownership this is a no brainer, and it would seem th…

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    Comment #6637948

    bhauer: a few flaws in your analysis. Insurance companies do not like prices being high either. They have to raise premiums and this discourages people from purchasing insurance. I…

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    Comment #5994628

    Well, I highly doubt that generational social issues are going to stay confined to Japan, and I would argue that they are already common around the world at large. Here in the West…

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    Comment #5160448

    Android only competes in a supercilious way. Android powered phones compete with the iPhone and Android OS does not compete with iOS. You cannot install Android on an iPhone and Ap…

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    Comment #5160422

    These days, OSX is simply a better product than is Windows (stability, security, feature set). OSX also has things like iTunes (largest provider of digital content world-wide... be…

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    Comment #5158053

    I wish it supported logins and comments natively... Unless it does and I'm not seeing it...

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    Comment #4740994

    GNU is Not Unix

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    Comment #4497685

    This sounds a lot like some random FUD that you picked up somewhere. If C dev times are so long, why is it that new versions of large scale applications written C are available so …

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    Comment #4489347

    Well, C is never inadequate. Quite a few languages have their interpreters/jit-compilers written in C. C is portable. C will continue to be a major language and will not become som…

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    Comment #4378561

    Arch is less annoying than Gentoo when it comes to package management. I don't say that lightly. I think that the power of emerge is quite respectable. I like that Gentoo gives me …

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    Comment #4319289

    Sure... but the Newton came before that with the interface design and much of the device design itself. In such case, Samsung and many others stole their ideas from the Newton and …