You say that now, but when someone starts making kits to build trebuchets into the back of pick-up trucks...

(The more I think about this idea, the more ridiculously awesome it sounds.)

inorite? When I think back on it, I'm utterly amazed to have survived childhood.

Incoming legislation in 3... 2... 1...

Pot, meet kettle.

The difference here, of course, is that neither side refrains from indulging in fatty pork products, but only one of them is claiming government spending is bad while doing so.

I'm not seeing how a single video card will help solve the problem of teaching how to build a cluster out of multiple networked computers. Nor would it look nearly as cool, which is directly relevant to the purpose of (to quote TFA) "getting children interested in science and engineering". It sounds like what GCHQ came up with succeeds much better at achieving the goals in question.

Yamamoto was saying this at the time, but no one was listening...

Actually, on any night other than the one precisely a lunar month from the given night, you can see some of that other side (the 50% you can't see tonight). That's what libration does -- expose some of that other 50% that you can't see tonight. Not all of it, sure, but some. You can only see 50% on any given night, but you can see 59% over time. Thus, 18% of tonight's "other side" will be "this side" on some other night.

You only say that because you're evil. :p

Huh. The glitchy desktop is the thing I hate most about Windows. I need Windows for some of the software I need to run under it, but gods I wish I could replace the buggy platform I'm running them on with one of the stable, spiffy desktops I use when I boot into Linux (and still have them run well; sorry WINE).

Yep, my experience exactly. The flurry of app updates driven by the release of Lollipop has made my Galaxy Nexus a slow, annoying device. It was fantastic before.

For some amount of time, yes. I have a Galaxy Nexus phone which is now a couple years old. KitKat (4.3) runs fantastically on it, and after experiencing Android L on a new tablet, I really don't care for its changes.

What I have noticed since Lollipop's release in November is that the application updates to the Material UI style (plus whatever else underneath) has greatly slowed down the GMail, Google's News&Weather, Play Store, and Play Music apps on my phone. Since this round of updates, when returning to home screen after running the play music GUI or news/weather, the launcher has to reload all the app icons, and it's actually a few seconds before the home launcher is ready to use. My phone has been fantastic, but the November app updates have just crapped on it.

The frustrating part is that I keep my phone fairly minimal -- no twitter, no facebook app (another POS) -- just to maximize battery life and keep it running fast. All my efforts are wasted now due to the apps I listed above. It sucks, because I really like this phone and don't feel like EOLing it yet.

I liked the default music app from about the G/H timeframe. It worked great for me, was fast, and playback was responsive. The current Play Music app is a piece of laggy shit. I'll just have to try some alternative apps.

A lot of my electronics keep working. Indeed, one of my most important electronic devices is the one I'll subsequently use to call the power company to complain that the power is off.

...I mean, it's the miracle substance you can do anything with, so maybe you can use it to make graphene! :D