If push comes to shove, you can still use Notepad++ under Wine. It works.

I use Kate for my editing needs, fast and good regexp work, which is important for me.

For every quad-core A57 ARM produced in Taiwan just make a 74LS00 in the US, that is something the American chip industry might just about manage.

And you need a phone to view them. It would be quite shitty if you don’t have one, or the battery just decided to die on you.

Amazon is making it impossible for me to consider a Kindle.

Only after supporting the murder of thousands of people.

Just a few years too late. I wonder how many people, not just terrorist, but civilians, men, women, children have been murdered with the help and for profits for Microsoft.

Thank you!

Best thing about that game was the intro. We ran the GB song for ages while playing cards.

That seems to be a recent addition, yes, I’ve seen it in a few videos, but it is rather new.

You are aware that a ship lays several times the depth in chain on the ground as weight. And the chain is much heavier as the tether will be, or it would not really get up high. And the distance between ship and ground is rather fixed, while the windmill blimp is in a rather floating position.

No, I think a bunch of heavy duty ground anchoring is necessary here.

On the other hand, as the Chinese are rather good at planning important things like that, I could imagine them to set up some anchor points ahead: Bury a large lump of concrete somewhere in the city. Maybe use it as an open place in a park, where nobody would notice that instead of a layer of stones it is actually going a few meters deep. Have a metal trapdor in the center where you can hook up a blimp to a connection below, and have a way to plug the power into the local grid. If catastrophy happens, drop off the blimp, blow it up and send it skywards. The park should give more than enough space to set it up.

Yep. They “see” music and applause at every corner.

Mafia demands removal of laws regarding organized crime, and to make extortion legal.

OK, so kindle is off the list of potential readers.

Any recommendations for a good reader that can do epub, PDF, and maybe even html with CSS?

Very interesting development. Especially that it can be deployed in disaster zones to provide energy - if there is a strong foundation to anchor it, probably.

I see two potential uses: spam and scam on one side, and DDOSing the cellular network on the other.

I rather suspect the second.

How dare they threatening our profits! Milking our mindless disciples is our god-given right!

Wouldn’t work here. We only use English with coworkers who have not yet learned the local language.

Run this through the “Police in Mississippi says” filter.

No idea what exactly was used. This was done when they built the building, way before my time in the company.

I can tell you it does work. I’m working in a lab painted with such stuff. No, we are not doing anything nefarious, but we had developments stints into wireless and radio technology, and having a properly shielded room to work in helps avoiding trouble with the neighbors. I don’t think they would appreciate getting their wifi jammed when someone here is trying to find a bug in a sender or something like this…