They managed to give Kim Jong-il cancer with their first mission, and now that they've perfected their orbital space-cancer-raygun, took out Hugo Chavez and Kim Jong-un on this latest mission. Why build airborne drones when you can riddle offending world leaders with cancer from orbit?

The latest Broadwell/Core-M processors are all fanless @ 4.5w.
 
The raspberry pi uses 1.89w for the B model and 1.21 watts for the new/improved B+ model released this summer.
 
By 2017 when the next model is due, Broadwell will be a three year old processor, and Intel's passively cooled Edison will be four years old..

Do you have links to the patent applications?

Until they bolt this thing in (or on top of) a Prius and drive it from NYC to LA on live television it's not real. Supposedly it's not very large, so if it's real, let's see it being used in a real-world application!

They own PGP. Which is a major part of the backbone of their security segment.

Probably someone at Amazon said "what if we just hold a competition and see what happens?" and their boss said "yeah but how much would that cost? we have a budget, you know", response back; "yeah I guess we could put it together for $100,000 including logisitcs, leaving 25% of the project cost as an incentive price". Boss thinks on it for a minute, "hmm yeah that sounds good, send me a proposal and we'll run with it, this is the sort of thing we reinvest all our profits in to, there's no way this is a complete waste of money since this gamble could really improve our bottom line."

Yeah, everyone loves the passive agressive Dwight-type in the office.

There's an unofficial yahoo email group for our enterprise software owned by a top NYSE-listed company, we get almost no help from their customer service but when you bring up bugs in the email group (which broadcasts to almost all of their customers) they tend to get fixed very quickly by their development staff.

I own a Model M, with a goofy RJ- to PS2 cable, old school. It's fun and clacky. I also have a Thinkpad which has it's own coveted keypress feel. However in my open office cubefarm plan it's noisy as shit. It also has zero ergonomics. I ended up buying a Microsoft Sculpt keyboard, which is sort of a sleek, complete redesign, of the Microsoft Natural keyboard. It has "modern" laptoppy feel keys that are actually quiet, and proper ergonomics. I'm thinking about getting one for the house, I was skeptical about wireless keyboards but I think that this is "the one" for me.

SSDs help improve performance pretty dramatically, and also nullifies fragmented disk issues (which mostly disappeared when Microsoft started scheduling regular defrags of the drive in Windows version * )

You must have been born before the advent of the original iMac. Of course the color matters. Which would you rather eat, a raw potato or a fresh apple? People aren't robots, their brains are wired in a particular manner. Marketing is a huge industry that makes a ton of money capitalizing on that fact. Technology isn't a game of min/maxing for most consumers. Do you want to claim that World of Warcraft isn't addictive to a particular type of person? Marketing research went in to developing that product too.

That's how my bill in Texas works with Green Mountain Energy; I pay an X base fee for infrastructure etc and then Y rate per KWh, which is broken in to three rate tiers,
below 450KWh/mo (second cheapest),
451-900KWh/mo (the cheapest)
  and 900+KWh/mo (most expensive)
 
I'm not on any special solar plan (nor do I have the generating capability), that's just how they've broken down my bill for the last Z years.

Microsoft's 2001 era tablets were also almost 2" thick and wrapped in 1990's era gray plastic you might find on an old HP desktop. 2001-era touchscreen displays were thicker than an entire iPad or android tablet is today. Not to mention pixel density in the 640x480 range, and battery life left a lot to be desired.
 
Enter the high PPI display, Gorilla Glass, modern Li-Ion battery technology and modern CPU (ARM) designs and now you can produce a tablet that's lighter and smaller than most text books.

Is anyone else curious how he got three OLED displays powered off of the single Arduino? I can think of several good uses of a multi-display Arduino product...

We've had the capability to put a man on Mars since the mid-1970's.... Just not the political will. Now that spaceflight is in the commercial realm, it's no long political willpower + taxpayer cost, it's just private cost and selling that dream to the right person.