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.

You can usually use the underlying distro's update system. Logo PNGs and default settings will generally keep across updates.

There should be a requirement that if you flag a story as false, you have to provide a link to a reputable source refuting it.

I already do this on Facebook, but I always provide a link to Politifacts or Factcheck or even Snopes. If you don't, you'll just be that guy who says "no" because he's to naive to believe that Obama already has secret death panels that kill millions of Americans each year.

Those Custom OSes that hardware manufacturers like to use are almost always rebranded and slightly modified versions of existing distros. I wouldn't be surprised at all if their Linux distro is just Debian with their logo image bundled in. Maybe a few tweaks to make it a little more battery efficient, which it's going to need if they want to get 8 hours of runtime on a 48WH battery and a Core i7.

The Intel 5200 Pro graphics are the biggest drawback to using this thing as a gaming laptop.

Surprisingly, selecting an empty bay actually increases the cost of the laptop.