I guess we'll be well prepared for nuclear war then. Lets get right on that. Or maybe not.

Won't the option be to either let the GPU use the extra 1/7 speed memory, or force the data back out to system memory over the PCIe bus at a much lower speed? Outside of benchmarks, I don't think many applications are going to be demanding that extra memory anyway.

At least the old Unix names were at least somewhat relevant to their purpose, even if severely shortened to save keystrokes:

grep: Global Regular Expression Print -- Ok, still pretty bizarre sounding if you're not a bearded unixguy
man: Short for MANual. Straightforward.
awk: Beats me. I think it's named after the author's initials or something
sed: Stream EDitor: does what it says, edits streams of characters

Just because open source projects can choose terrible names doesn't mean they have a monopoly on it.

You are half right. The "normal" channel-based content comes in on its own wavelength, yes. However "on-demand" and other interactive content comes in on IP (using MoCA provided by the router), and as I understand it that IP channel comes from the same bandwidth pool as whatever your Ethernet and wireless connections are using too.

FiOS is expensive, but then so is cable and at least you get what you pay for with FiOS. If Google fiber or Muni Fiber came to my area I would almost certainly switch, but as it is I feel lucky to at least get good service if I'm going to be paying out the ass.

That is in fact exactly what the article says. While the profit margin on FiOS is apparently 4.4%, the wireless side had a 23.5% profit margin. While those numbers are heavily encrusted with bullshit, they do show the relative value of the technologies to Verizon.

It's also possible they don't have some of the features you would need to make them any better than the Hubble. They may be set up to track things on the surface of the Earth and not have hardware necessary for long tracking shots of deep space objects. They may also be malfunctioning in some way and not useful unless they get serviced, which isn't going to happen now that the Shuttle program is over.

Surface RT was always a bastard child of the lineup. They sold pretty poorly too, so it's not a surprise that Microsoft is wiping their hands of the whole product.

I think this is for tower to tower type communication. I do have to wonder about rain fade on a 95Ghz signal though.

ISA Plug and Play was a horrendous hack. It was always a roll of the dice. It's really no surprise that people were so willing to jump on PCI as soon as it came out.

How about we get politics out of science and rely on the scientific method to determine if "Global Warming" is real or not.

It's fundamentally impossible to remove the politics from the science if your solution to the problem is political. It's hard to imagine any solutions to a global problem like Global Warming that aren't political short of some miracle technology coming out of nowhere that magically solves the problem.

A few things come to mind.
The first is the price tag. $1500 is a laughable sum for a consumer electronics toy that doesn't have a clear niche.
Another is artificially restricting what it can do. One of the killer features for Glass could be facial recognition that floats someone's name over them. No more awkwardly trying to remember someone's name that you met earlier at the party.
The battery life was also apparently quite bad, as was the performance of the device. Not a surprise given the form factor, but this needs to be addressed.
I want it to be powerful enough that it can do everything locally and not have to phone lots of info back to Google to get work done. People would be a lot less freaked out about the camera if the data couldn't be exported from the device.

Google glass was ahead of its time IMHO. The technology wasn't there to make it work properly, and everybody fixated on the camera so much that it was hard to see anything else about it. However, the Camera is necessary for the device to be more than a smartwatch that looks even more dumb. Augmented reality is the killer feature for glass and you can't do that without a camera.

Solving the battery problem won't get us flying cars, but it will make a huge difference for all electric travel in general.

That's progress. Think of all of the bullshit they were about to post before they found it on Snopes. At least they're checking now.