Don't vote for this kind of garbage with your money.

And nobody has...

Whatever happens with the Surface Pro series (and I'd say the odds are stacked against it), RT is dead in the water. It's sitting in the same dark, dank purgatory that the Blackberry Playbook is, and largely for the same reasons.

You do have actual evidence of this, right? I mean, you wouldn't simply be lying to bolster *your* agenda.

Sounds like scientists complaining that they're research has been misused.

And you don't think Microsoft is trying to do the same with cod services being turned on by default in Windows 8?

Dark energy is needed to explain the rapid inflation of the universe. Dark matter is matter we know is out there but can't yet identify because it so weakly interacts with normal matter. One is extremely important to explaining big bang cosmology as we currently understand it. The other in certainly is part of the big bang story, but is as much an interest to particle physicist as cosmologists because it represents the possibility of physics beyond the Standard Model.

First of all, aspects of big bang cosmology were predicted before observation, and second of all, WTF? Theories have to fit observation or they are, by definition, wrong.

All news is politics by other means.

In no place is crony capitalism so entrenched as in the former states of the Old Confederacy, and Florida is one of the worst. (And, note, I say that as a native of the South.)

H1Bs from New Jersey get a lot of grief.

If someone were to come up with a ARM-based board with at least the capability of three or four NICs and a WiFi access, and could run a decent distro like Debian, even if it cost a couple of hundred bucks, I'd snap up three right now. I've built Linux-based routers/VPN appliances using Debian, iptables and OpenVPN, and I can't complain, but they still suck a lot of electricity, and quite frankly, are rather large. I have three Asus RT-N12 routers with TomatoOS on them, and they work great but I've never been able to get the onboard ethernet switch to reliably work as two routed network segments, and they are getting a bit long in the tooth WiFi-wise.

There's a helluva lot of C code being written and maintained out there, so no, not even C has been replaced.

Propose it to the NASA Cubesat Launch Initiative.

From an executable (if I can use the word for byte code) point of view, yes Java is the most portable. I compile once, run in many places. That doesn't really apply to Android or iOS, of course, but since I don't write mobile apps, I don't fret. But I do write apps that run on Windows boxes, Macs and *nix machines, and, as I said, as long as I'm careful to keep things version and platform neutral, my jar file can run on all these platforms. Code portability and executable portability are two different things.

Jesus. I'm running the Kepler version of Eclipse on a five year old Windows 7 box with 4gb of RAM and I'm not experiencing anything like that kind of slowdown.

If I get to see this in a presentation, I will ask about these. The temperature control is especially relevant. My guess is that the systematic problem is related to leakage of magnetic fields, i.e., basically your big brushless motor idea.