Desktop/server apps are x86 binaries. Many mobile devices are ARM-based. Using a "fat binary" that contains executables for both cpu families, or running a VM on a mobile device, is probably not desirable. That would leave migrating your desktop/servers to ARM processors. Which isn't out of the realm of…

Although I do this anyway, I think what you're calling a "multitasking queue" is really a "recently opened queue"— apps that don't really multitask (in the iOS sense of the word) are found there, and other apps will continue to run even when they aren't in that queue (e.g., phone and email).

Of course, this only applies if you leave your computer on all the time. Some people don't.

Since I'm a hardware designer, I prefer to think of this as software catching up to the underlying hardware. Hardware has to compensate for all the bloat that "modern" software has.

Possibly Mac only, is the "open" command:

@Tycho Vhargon: This may be a retcon, but I believe it's for "Bourne Again SHell". Steven Bourne wrote the original "sh" shell, of which bash and a number of others are descendants.

I'm in the double-space camp. I prefer non-proportional fonts because a lot of my communication is tabular, and it's hard to line things up with proportional fonts.

Meh. No difference from putting the bookshelf on a stand, other than the weight being borne by the wall. I'd probably stuff that bottom section with books/papers, anyway.

@penguiniator: vi-mode command history editing is my preferred method, also.

@forevermac: Try again. Irrational numbers ("numbers that are not ratios") are not fractions.

@lewis82: You youngsters :-) Our family had a TI SR-10.

@superhappyfuntime: So maybe the UFOs we see today are probes sent out by a previous Earth civilization a million years ago...

@MrRainMan: It's San Francisco: Earthquake!!!

@taniquetil: The graph isn't trying to show that particular statistic. There are many ways of viewing data, and many ways of interpreting it. Trying to distill everything into one graph is like using one benchmark to judge the performance of a computer— it's not the whole story.

Seriously? A DIY project to "buy two and stack them"? That's really stretching the imagination...

Seriously? A DIY project to "buy two and stack them"? That's really stretching the imagination...

@Rzah: Barometers can be used as altimeters. Although I'm not sure it works inside the pressurized cabin of an airplane.

@o.grasdijk: It's like shoplifting a pack of gum. You can probably afford to pay for it, but do it anyway because you think you can get away with it.

@Relyt: He wasn't pushed out because of sexual harassment. It was because of the "inappropriate" expenses.

@♫ Destronok ♫: Yeah, that's more reasonable to me, too. I can't believe you can push electrons through that much cabling with just 50W.