Calling this "mutant powers" is trivializing this entire issue. It makes light of the fact that millions of people are using stimulants and nootropics that lie in a legal gray area pertaining to employment and schoolwork. Calling this "mutant powers" is the most inappropriate thing you could do.

"Dead product" means that their hardware is literally two generations behind, and they're still selling it for the most exorbitant prices. Not that they're not selling it right now.

He's right, though. A C2D/C2Q plus a more up-to-date card than the (*snicker*) 5570 he has now can handle most things you throw at it with ease.
He just said "It's already been upgraded, and upgrading it more would be a waste of money because I hold the idea that the CPU isn't powerful enough."

They were really just looking for a cheap Windows laptop, and that's what they found. This summary seems needlessly snarky and I fail to see why this is news at all.
I mean, it might be news that Windows 8 isn't crashing and burning as it looked likely to, but it sounds like this exists just to make fun of people who bought 250 USD PCs.

Hamas: radical, but not a corrupt puppet government that the US and Israel were trying to set up.
Fatah: said puppet group.
Those were the only two choices in the election that the US forced.

You seem to have left out the US and Israel funding Fatah to wage a proxy war against Hamas (democratically elected, by the corrupt system that the US and Israel pushed), the IDF killed a thirteen year old boy last month, then a twenty-three year old mentally disabled man who walked too near Gaza. Then, when the PFLP wounded four in a rocket launch near the border, Israel ASSASSINATED one of the leaders of Hamas and the strip.
Just thought you could use that background info.

... the innocent civilian refugees dying in Gaza from missiles that are accurate enough to hit one car yet somehow manage to strike crowded residential areas every single day don't have the money to buy one of those. Or eat.

Yeah, it's not like there are already cheaper and more powerful options for a mini-pc than a Mac Mini; I'm sure Intel was just so threatened by Apple's second least popular product.
Face it, this Intel initiative is about semi-ubiquitous computing with a bit of a general twist. Not a response to the Mac that's seen the least innovation/interest.

No, it's most certainly not surprisingly low.
Apple has piles of money; they're not recouping losses from development with the price, just wanting more profit.
Amazon also has an app store of their own.
It's not surprisingly low, it's surprising how high it is and how someone could possibly be open to the idea of higher profit margins on their devices.

...make submissions about RMS, then? Are we waiting for HURD to ride his every sentence?

Windows 8 isn't had for gaming, it's just bad for Valve. Vale has wanted Steam to be a general App Store for a long while, and if regular plebes start using the Windows Marketplace, they'll lose that battle before they even begin. Valve's just concerned with their potential market being at risk.

"The gnu — which, on closer inspection, was an activist in a gnu suit"
It's hard to tell the two apart sans suit, sometimes.

Said as a GNU/Linux enthusiast.

Exactly that. Windows Phone 8, Windows RT, and Windows all have a common kernel, so MS wants people to port their Windows 8 apps into Windows Phone apps with "a few" lines of code. They chose this way for a number of reasons, one of which was an attempt to make developing, internally, Windows RT cheaper/easier than adding all that they wanted to do to Windows Phone.

Windows Phone was never meant to. I don't know where you get the idea that it was from.

Perhaps not. This is a very poorly-thought out idea, and definitely not a complete one.

I personally don't think that this specific idea is ever going to be feasible, but the general idea of using the moon as secondary hub for a large scale, interbodied military/scientific/navigation network isn't going to be feasible for at least twenty-five years at the earliest, and probably more than thirty. I feel like most of the investment in information is going to be confined to Earth until the hardened technology underlying space travel/exploration improves a bit.