You may be thinking of Saturday morning cartoons of a few years ago. I got up early this Saturday and decided to go look to see what cartoons were on. Sadly, Doc McStuffins, Rescue Heroes, and Thomas and Friends was the closest thing I could find. Other channels where as a kid I would watch cartoons had paid programming or news.

Sadly, Cartoon Network seems to be one of the only channels that has real cartoons (i.e. ones with a plot that don't bother teaching lessons to preschoolers)

So now we know where Skynet started.

I'm sure they do have the imagery. On someone's hard drive. In a vault.1

Google / Bing have the technology that makes it far easier to implement over the web. Why reinvent the wheel when you can have the professionals do it?

The way Minecraft and the assorted mods are going, in 30 years we'll be building a space ship in Minecraft and then sending it to the fabrication plant to be built.

Well, upper management may have gotten off with a slap on the wrist and a fine, but a couple middle management guys were charged with manslaughter.

Your GPU card does more than just output video. The GPUs on these cards are designed for brute force calculations and chugging through numbers. They're designed for physics engines, running through protein folding calculations, and rendering high quality video in real time.

If you want to equate them to a design in the past, think of them as really really really powerful math co-processors. CPUs are designed for short command queues and calculations that are hard to predict the next step, while GPUs are designed for long command queues and easily predictable calculations.

...and we've been using teraflop scale on desktops since 2008.

Oh, you mean the 8% failure rate? Considering Romney had a 22% failure rate at Bain Capital, I think Obama has done a better job at picking companies to invest in.

As someone who also lives in Florida, I can explain.

1. Very little preparation for the type of weather that a hurricane can cause. In Florida, we have storm drains that take away most of the water that a hurricane causes. Add in building codes that require buildings to be designed for hurricanes (typically category 3) and utilities that are designed specifically for hurricanes, and you'll find that down here, things are pretty robust by design. New Jersey and New York didn't have that type of preparation and you had buildings collapse.

2. Record storm surges. In some places, the storm surge was over 13 feet where the harbor was only designed to handle the (then historic record) 12 feet, causing massive flooding.

3. Fires. Gas lines caught fire, causing over 100 homes to burn to the ground.

4. In New Jersey specifically, they had a berm go under water due to the storm surges, causing even more damage.

Ultimately, take a look at the damage predictions and you'll see why its called a superstorm. Wind was only part of the issue.

Doesn't have time for Firefly or Star Trek.

False. That's what multitasking while compiling or testing is for.

Most likely they're confused about Sponsored posts appearing in their News Feed. Most of the time when I see posts from things I don't agree with they've been posts that were bought and paid for to appear in my feed. As I live in Florida and I've marked myself as an independent, I get both Romney and Obama posts in my feed even though I haven't "liked" either one. The worst are the local election ones that aren't as professional and look like some random spam bot or virus posting political crap.