Slate, Minerals, and other common elements are too common. Gold doesn't corrode, it's "rare", it can't just be had willy-nilly by anyone walking around their yard. If everyone had slate money, you could just make money out of the rocks around your house.

Is the year of linux on the desktop!
Has a high likelihood of finding earth-like planets!
We'll be able to 3D print an entire car! ...all predictions that are made every year. What other predictions are we going to repeat?

The dalvik interpreter isn't java. Never claimed to be. It's not a fork either, it merely uses java as its intermediary language for programming.

Ice Cream Sandwich added the ability to disable those applications entirely from the Applications menu. And even if you have root, and you uninstall with something like titanium backup, you're not gaining any benefits over the ICS method of just disabling it, because the APK is stored in the /system partition, which doesn't share space with the rest of your applications (which means you're not gaining any usable space unless you repartition /system...and lets face it...who does that?).

As if capitalism isn't already broken...

At least Google has done something to change the landscape of the telecom industry.

HTC seriously underestimated the power of their Android enthusiasts. They went the direction of Moto and started locking everything down. Every Android enthusiast before that point went around telling _everyone else_ to get an HTC. Once they screwed that vocal minority, everyone started pushing Samsung. Samsung doesn't cryptographically sign their bootloaders, meaning they can be unlocked without some big-brother style registration. This means Android enthusiasts push Samsung now.

Never underestimate the power of an enthusiastic geek.

D-Link MovieNite Streaming Player, DSM310 is $80. $80 > $35...and that's the upper version of the pi. There's a $25 version that has the capability as well.

Because we've got tons of things wrong in America, but you know what? At least we have freedom of speech. People here don't get arrested for bad jokes.

The guy that did that had a few too many "trust me"s in his video, while also mentioning makerbot quite a bit. He didn't change anything on the design, he was merely looking to source the mass manufacturing to china and pump out the same product makerbot has. Open source isn't about jacking other peoples ideas and racing to the bottom of the profit ladder, it's about making improvements, and that guy didn't make ANY.

I actually hope this. Not because I wish Apple well being or anything like that, but I realize the hop from OSX -> Linux is a much shorter one than the hop from getting developers targeting OSX from Windows. Valve actually reused a _bunch_ of their Mac code in order to start their Linux port.

Can't delete or edit...crap: Voltage drop less, and current higher - Here's the site for said modification: http://himeshp.blogspot.com/2012/07/raspberry-pi-usb-power-issues-ultimate.html

If you place a 1 ohm resistor in parallel with F1 and F2, you can get the voltage drop and current higher - fixing a lot of the issues with the USB.

If by "cloud" you mean a remote location, yes.

Proper backup procedures generally include a on-site backup, plus an off-site. The "cloud" is perfect for an off-site backup.

In addition to removing it from device administrators. Which is like 2 actual steps. It's very tame compared to what it _could_ take.