Posts by Homer Wilson 4 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Dec 2007
Setting aside the matter of Google's probably questionable GPL to BSD Linux conversion, most Android developers don't extend the kernel directly. They instead use language libraries like Java and the GNU standard C and C++ libraries, which contain explicit GPL exceptions that allow the creation of proprietary software.
I think that only Android kernel module authors and similar developers, surely a small set, would be affected.
This product is too noisy, and produces too much heat for anything but a machine room. Note the suspicious lack of environmental specifications. It is more expensive and less capable than similarly configured Nexxus boxes.
It will go the way of Rocketcalc (doing this kind of thing almost a decade ago), Orion Multisystems, and SciCortex. (OK, I guess SciCortex's little machine is still around.)
Stick with two-socket SMP for desktop use. Bigger machines belong in the machine room.
I own an eeepc (white) and a Sony TZ (with Ubuntu!). The Sony is fantastic--I think better than the Air (smaller overall, includes a built-in DVD). However, on the road, I still take the eee 90% of the time.
Why? It's very small and light, and very tough. And if it's lost or stolen, I'm only out 400 bucks. By the way, my eee pc runs the CPU dynamically from 125MHz up to 900MHz, not a fixed 650 as reported in the article.
Have you read the bios of the authors? The SEPP and S. Fred Singer in particular, is a longstanding, highly political critic of global warming. Skepticism is vital to science. In view of the authors' backgrounds, we should not forget to also subject their conclusions to a healthy dose of skepticism.
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