The Structured Exception Handling is Microsoft's fault; they have a patent on it (at least for 32-bit) so it can't be implemented in GCC.
Obviously Microsoft has an unfair advantage on the API front as well, since I'm assuming the APIs were written and test primarily with Microsoft's compilers in mind.
I'm guessing they'd have the ability to look at each others' source code as well?

You won't be able to run any non-Metro apps not written by Microsoft.
Apparently they won't even let you run command line .NET apps that aren't tied to any specific architecture.

Isn't AIR based on Flash? Apparently they're still going to develop it for now, but I wouldn't trust that it will be around long-term.

Am I able to take the SIM card out of my Verizon LTE phone and stick it in one of these tablets to get data using the same plan I have for my phone? Without paying extra, that is.
Or do they have something to block this?

It's very unlikely that the legitimate files would be EXACTLY the same as the pirated files, especially with music files.
If you really need to mitigate this problem, give the rights holders the option to take down a file and all links or just one particular link.

"Easily updated to CyanogenMod", eh?
So do you want to port it to all of the Samsung phones that don't have it now?

I get 3% interest on my checking account for doing a few things, mainly using my debit card enough. Much higher than I can get in a savings account.
The maximum balance you can earn interest on is $15k though.

Pretty much the only phones you can download from Google's repos and build for are the Nexus phones. Anything else and there's no guarantee you'll ever be able to rebuild from source.
Even then, all officially supported devices require binary blobs to run.

Guess we better all switch to Ada...

Are you talking about an existing "Android Perl" app that requires root permissions? Do you have a link?
I don't see why you'd need root access. You can download one of the terminal emulator apps and run anything within the context of the app.
You may need to figure out how to get it compiled, though.

Why do you need embedded systems on the main network? That just seems like an unnecessary security risk.
I also work with embedded systems, but they are all connected via secondary network cards. They should at least be put behind an encrypted tunnel (ssh would do).

Flash supports hardware accelerated video, while Silverlight does not (at least not with Netflix). So Flash's performance is better for the one useful things that uses Silverlight. Silverlight 5 is supposed to have hardware accelerated video, but it doesn't work by default. Anyone know of any workarounds?

I was under the impression that all of the applications to the UN were being done by President Abbas of Fatah. Of course there are plenty of things you could criticize Fatah about as well.

I just tried, it can't post updates to social networks or set up reminders/appointments. And the voice recognition still isn't that great. Hopefully this motivates Google to improve this.
Also, Siri has access to Wolfram Alpha, which has some natural language abilities that Google lacks.

Chrome has a similar bug (at least I've experienced it in the dev version, possibly the beta version as well). Chrome was claiming my browser was at the latest version, despite being months out of date.
I can't seem to find a page that lists the latest version of Chrome, so I have no idea if my browser is up to date now or not. Does one exist?