China has some of the worst pollution on the planet, due largely to their improving living standards.

So even if climate change turns out to be "absolute crap", developing nations have a vested interest in clean technologies.

It's a platform that restricts the available choice of software, forcing content to be rewritten for a web interface.

Pre-existing content isn't an issue just for Chrome OS. e.g. A friend's grandchildren were forced to use an iPad for classroom use. Turns out they couldn't do a homework exercise because the educational material targeted flash.

Unit tests?

Advocates of TDD would stress a complex suite of tests that self-document assumptions and side-effects - especially prior to refactoring code to bug fix and add new features, as specified in the summary.

Don't you mean Deaf One-armed Leper?

Even in Quebec?

Not helpful??

Think of the plants in the rainforest with which local tribesmen use to treat illness. Synthesising these compounds may be crucial in treating the next batch of superbugs.

Think of terra preta, a fertile soil mix found in the Amazon, whose synthesis could be the key to 21st century crop yields devastated by climate change.

Telefonica, the main Firefox OS licensee.

As well as their native Iberian peninsula, Portugal & Spain (where Geeksphone originates), a main market is in same-sex-marriage friendly South American nations, e.g. Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.

So there's potential backlash in these markets where FFOS handets are to be introduced.

The 20th century called - how often does the typical user *need* to shutdown?

An ACPI device should, when idle, suspend to RAM after 15 minutes and hibernate after an hour.

I have a fossil-fuel guzzling noisy desktop PC in my sleeping quarters that I shutdown every night but a modern PC should snooze on minimal juice.

Laptops running Windows make up more than 1% of the PC market. MS aren't just pitching to replace the hundreds of millions of ten year old office PCs running XP.

By 2015, the percentage of Windows laptops sold without a touch-screen will be single figures, as the differential between the cost of production diminishes and manufacturers compete based on value-added features.

Watch the TV ad for Windows Surface Pro. A boss buys his entire staff a tablet, so they enjoy a 'fringe benefit' of a lifestyle device outside work hours. This tablet also docks to a keyboard, so that they can run standard business programs; a free gift of a convertible tablet enslaves the corporate user to be connected to the workplace 24/7 - evil genius.

Another promising idea killed off by improper sandboxing? :(

How is 'Little bits of random HTML' any more insecure than browsing the web using IE 11, I wonder...

I'm cheering for Mozilla at this point. Latest builds of Firefox for Android promise seamless integration of HTML apps. If they did the same for Windows, you'd see the HTML5 market expand.

graduations, weddings, funerals, job interviews where you don't want to scare HR with your forest of chest hair.

Kunstmann from Valdivia, Chile do a tasty blueberry beer.

Well in the case of the govt. of Australia, where this cynical newspaper article originated, it's a massive PR exercise.

"See, our defence force do good, noble, things in their spare time", when they're not implementing the government's polarising 'stop the boats' agenda.

Do they have a clue if and where the plane sank? Hardly...

Sounds like a very slow way to charge your sportscar when all you have is a Cat5 cable. :)