This probably makes the texture compression patent (S3TC) invalid. Now it can be safely implemented in Mesa.

This chip will work on tablets, so I am not sure about the 20-40% of the pixels thing. Also PS3 games look much better than the PC counterparts on similar hardware thanks to the fine-tuning and specific optimisations which are possible only on fixed hardware. In order to match the PS3 the Mali GPU actually has to be more powerfull. And let's not forget that the power consumption will be orders of magnitude lower. It definatelly will not be high-end, but might still be more powerfull than most of the GPU's that will be sold at the time of the release (e.g. integrated Intel crap).

Linus' rant is about using PAE in a desktop enviroment, which I agree with (that's why I said that I doubt any applications will use PAE). It says nothing about virtualisation. LPAE will work just fine for VMs.

ARM's Large Physical Address Extensions (LPAE) allows access to up to 1TB of memory. While I doubt applications will use this, it will allow each virtualized host on the server to use 4GB of memory.

"...allows soldiers to track colleague's locations on the battlefield"
What could possibly go wrong?

Wouldn't all the atmosphere freeze at the dark side of the planet? The water for sure, maybe the CO2 too? Unless it's a greenhouse planet like Venus?

Great! Now if they would be kind enough to adjust the European prices for their products so that they are not 2 times more expensive than in the US.
Observe:
http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Creative-Suite-Master-Collection/dp/B003B328TE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1273768517&sr=1-3 - $2,450.99
http://www.amazon.de/Adobe-Creative-Master-Collection-deutsch/dp/B003FSSL3M/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1273768468&sr=1-5 - EUR 3,688.00 = $4,683.39

And thanks to some european laws that Adobe strongly supports and enforces (with the help of BSA) it is illegal for an european company to use software bought in the US.
Yay for open markets.

Cameron sidestepped the uncanny valley ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley ) by making the navi different enough from people. I have yet to see a believable CG human character.

Haiku OS has a tabbed windows prototype - see a video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccniJHjo_Uw You can skip to 3:40 to see it in action

Rapid evolution in the past 10000 years - maybe. In the past 50 years - no way. Nowdays everybody can have an offspring no matter what diseases, diets or social changes he is subjected to.