Why is MATE in all capitals?

It's not spelled that way in Uruguayan Spanish. Did they invent a witty backronym?

Why not use Okular?

I thought all the hipsters had switched to car-pooling in Teslas?

Judging by the number of slashvertisements...

Add the quarter of a million Japanese murdered by President Truman.

Leave the shit in the ground lest a 'rogue state' break the truce of mutually assured destruction. *cough* Al Qaeda *cough*

I'll wait for the mac nano.

They could halve the price if they abandoned Intel for their own A7 chip. i.e. iPad internals with 8GB RAM running OS X.

Gavin was probably drinking tea at the time.

Tea from Sri Lanka, e.g. Dilmah, still uses the colonial name on its packaging.

Given that Java has coffee-related connotations...

The 'rebirth' of enlightenment coincided with said Rasterman getting a full time job at Samsung.

The libraries that underpin E are the basis of a fledgling mobile OS, Tizen.

Haha. Makes a nice change from all the pyramid-scheme stories about bitcoin.

I guess the point here is whether '8' introduces any new incompatibilities over '7'.

~$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_51"

Java has always been 1.x under the covers. We went through the 'Java 2' phase, now it's just Java SE.

FWIW, programmers will still refer to it as JDK 1.8

And buy a new cable every few months?

I've had several cables whose plastic clippy endy things have snapped off, including ones with rubber covers. They still work but you have to hold the cable in place, rather than the satisfying click that normally accompanies inserting the cable.

That's just from carrying the cable in a laptop bag and plugging it in each day.

Elop.

Well back when Symbian was king and before Kickstarter, there was a phone platform for tinkerers - Neo 1973/Freerunner.

Suffice to say it died. A main reason was software - few people wanted to pay for a half-finished platform. Today, numerous alternatives exist to windows phone and iOS. e.g. Android, Sailfish, Tizen, Firefox OS.

So a feasible crowd-funded project might be to hire, full time, a few kernel hackers to write blob replacements for replicant and integrate the free GPU efforts of rpi/lima/freedreno. Outsourcing the hardware to ZTE and Geeksphone, based on schematics from the Google/Moto modular smartphone project Ara.

Didn't I write "language family"?

'Polynesian' is language family spoken in various Pacific countries such as New Zealand (Maori), USA (Hawaiian) and Chile(Rapa Nui).