The summary is misleading. They didn't actually win the $1 million yet. Masten Space and Unreasonable Rocket are both going to have a crack at the prize and have until October 31 to best Armadillo's performance.

You're too young to remember "The job's not done 'til Lotus won't run." Microsoft apparently would make minor changes in MS-DOS and early versions of Windows so that Lotus 1-2-3 (the most popular spreadsheet of the era) wouldn't work right.

Try the Yoxos Eclipse distribution tool. It lets you easily roll your own version of Eclipse with the add-ons you want. The plugin list is very extensive. I assume that it supports the Subversion plug-in, though I haven't needed it.

Here's a couple I found:
http://www.digitalview.com/controllers/comparison.php

I've got a couple Goldtouch keyboards that have a great improvement: extra Delete and Backspace keys on the left hand side of the keyboard. It's very helpful when you've got your right hand on the mouse.

Also, Goldtouch moved the Windows and Right Click/Context Menu keys off of the main area into a separate space. Both of these are great improvements.

I've volunteered with FIRST every now and then when I'm able to.

The phrase "gracious professionalism" always struck me as both condescending to the contestants and unnecessary.

We have the perfectly good term "sportsmanship" which means pretty much the same thing. At various other robotics competitions (BattleBots, Robot Battles, etc.) nearly everyone I've met has been a good sport, and likeable too. Going on and on about "gracious professionalism" at the various official functions implies that the contestants are unable to figure it out on their own and thus need to have it drilled into their heads.

It's technology oriented, but not computer-oriented:
1.Windows 80.60%
2.Macintosh 13.83%
3.Linux 4.36%
4.(not set) 0.52%
5.iPhone 0.43%

From there, market share starts to get vanishingly small.