Thanks for clarifying and setting me straight on the meaning of "random" in RAM.

You're talking about physical memory, such as SDRAM, DDR, etc. But RAM is a higher, functionally descriptive term. Observe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-access_memory , third paragraph.

RAM means "random access memory" and thus your Flash, sir, is RAM.

It should be worth noting that the "photoshopping" means using Adobe Photoshop. Retouching is the word for a general process of photo modification regardless of the software used. In short, every time someone says "photoshopped", they are advertising Adobe Photoshop for no compensation. :)

*sigh*

I'm not quite sure what connection exists between Eastern Europe and "developing world with no experienced opticians nor diagnostic equipment", but I'll let it pass.

(borked the preview) ...attributed to individuals, or in the worst case, companies. You may rest now knowing that people like you elsewhere will now think of the U.S. business in general doing this sort of thing.

Those things happen in other places, perpetrated by similarly shady characters, but people like you only bother to note the name of the country. Whereas things happening in the U.S. are

Let's not forget that Linux is just a component of the entire GNU/Linux (I know, I know) system. The accompanying software has grown considerably: GNOME, KDE, browsers, various programming languages and environments, utilities, networking tools, etc. all siphon the interest of a young developer into other areas. Linux is, for all its good and bad sides, stable and feature-full. It's not very tasty to hack on unless you have specific interest in OS internals. So while Linux might be losing the influx of fresh blood, there's still lots of energy around it.

I love it how the know-it-alls jump and say "no, CSS/ads/JavaScript/AJAX/ is guilty". Timothy's post claims an observed twofold increase in speed in practice. Unless you want to flat-out say that he is lying, your arguments are invalid.

I like to use this, please don't laugh, I am an electronics novice. http://www.falstad.com/circuit/ It may be too simplistic to warrant being mentioned along the likes of OrCad, Spice, etc. but boy, does it help build intuition!

Pardon me, there is private property in communism. Name one country in the past or present where you don't own the bread you eat (once you were given it). Similarly, in capitalism, you don't own your salary until you've received your paycheck, so try to find your way around that.

P.S. If you do, I'm your loyal worshipper :)

It humors me greatly to see the amount of energy and the number of words people in the States need to spend in order to mention anything that has to do with "communism" while not bashing it at the same time.

If you want good randomness: buy a cheap microcontroller, one thermistor, one photoresistor, hook it all up to the charger of your old cell phone (or power from USB but then there's not much noise) and sample away. Or alternatively just grab that Brownian motion detector.

Cannibalism. Homosexuality. Abortion. Incest. Animals do it, humans do it; those are Mother Nature's inventions, and who are we to try and remove them from the natural order of things? I call for an international effort to form ARCHAIC (Advisory and Regulatory body for the Conservation of Homosexuality, Abortion, Incest and Cannibalism)!

Srsly now, you guys in funny skirts, let's stop pretending like you are above the Nature and stop destroying its fine inventions. =)