You either don't know what you're talking about or just plainly trolling. The GPU specs that Intel opened is the CoreHD graphics series which is Intel's own GPU technology and is in no way related to ImgTech's PowerVR.

I am looking forward though to the real competition between ARM's latest and greatest with Intel's upcoming Haswell.

Why a gas? Why not float it using an electromagnet instead?

One glaring example of this is the kernel scheduler. If you ever used the OSX / IOS notice how smooth the graphics is and well responding it is to touch events even under heavy load compared to Linux desktops / Android. Although there have been much improvements done in Linux recently especially Android stack that smoothes the UI experience, occasionally you will still encounter random hiccups in the UI (even with a quad-core CPU). Same is true with other Linux-based such as the Nokia N9 Harmattan, where although the graphics is pretty much smooth, the user sometimes encounters stuttering when swiping or scrolling windows.

As the GP pointed out, part of the problem here is that the Linux kernel have vested interests towards server infrastructures. The current scheduler, CFS (tries to) balances CPU utilization and user interactivity fairly. If Linux were to achieve a more smoother response we need a scheduler for extremely low latencies instead of fair prioritization.

There is a project to change the scheduler towards this low latency approach, but even the project author is not expecting it to be accepted in mainline soon - the reason why we need a fork.

...but insanely exciting missions: a robotic boat that would have floated on a methane lake on Saturn’s moon Titan and a comet explorer. I would prefer the robotic boat. You never know what lurks beneath those lakes (TMAs?). This is unfortunate though. Seems NASA has mastered the technical hurdles of Mars but rested on its laurels instead, sticking to tried and true approaches.

Yet another result of Elop's mismanagement of a once great organization. Qt would have been the platform that powered the next generation smartphones to low budget featurephones. Too bad Qt wasn't given a chance due to this guy's ties with his former employer.

I just wished instead the old Trolltech would rise again.

I once saw this concept videovideo at Nokia Research Centre in Helsinki more than 3 years ago. Too bad Nokia failed to capitalise it on time and now they are failing big time.

Seems? How can you say it is sluggish you haven't even tried it out personally? Or were you just judging the performance based on the videos. I have the prototype and it is extrememely fast and snappy indeed. Even Engadget which is biased towards Apple is impressed

Looks like the lightsaber training ball used by Luke

Just the need to upgrade how Kwin uses OpenGL currently to do rendering. Right now its still using the old OpenGL 1.1 - style rendering (fixed-function rendering pipeline) to a programmable one using vertex and fragment shaders. This way, it'll be easier to port it on embedded devices that uses OpenGL 2.0 by default

I shudder to think of capturing the interest of geeky girls! No more geeky girls for me. When they like you, they tend to like you in a crazy manner! I had the experience of one trying to get my attention in every way. She would always try to understand the software projects that I am working on and even google the terminologies that I put in my blog. This is funny, but she asked me out lots of times, I tried to say no but is really persistent. She once caught me having dinner with friends in restaurant and in a very planned manner, went straight to our table talked to a couple of my friends behind my back and then went to me. She tends to approach love and relationships in a very calculated manner. I am already like that and NO I am not going to spend my life with a person who is just like me (why can't I attract the real girls)? :/

looks cool