Do keep in mind that you're talking about one specific technology stack here.

Java2D has long been 3D-rendered using OpenGL or Direct3D. X.org's Glamor aims to unify 2D with OpenGL.

Where 'y' is a typographic substitute for the olde English letter thorn, I'd personally steer clear of anything named 'The Sod' :-)

Coming from a JVM background, from the familiarity p.o.v. I'd probably prefer to write web services in Scala but certainly faylang is an interesting diversion from dynamically typed compile-to-JS languages,

It was an opportunity to monetize KDE through hardware sales and Mr Seigo seems to have sunk his own savings into the venture.

Whether KDE has the resources to refocus on porting to existing devices such as Nexus, Galaxy Note and Surface Pro tablets remains to be seen.

Strange, I was thinking of buying an MS Surface Pro 3 and putting KDE on it!

Squares of prime numbers.

ssh on an android phone sounds masochistic.

Get a laptop and tether!

if Google wired up Havana with FTTP, Uncle Raul might see a rush of technological refugees from down under.

Sure blame the Floridanos but isn't the problem the agricultural sector?

Stop making fructose and ethanol from government subsidized maize.

Pay Mexican farmers a decent price for corn and you might see less 'illegals' crossing the border. Kickstart the Cuban economy by buying their sugar.

also known as the Republic of China.

Wind turbines kill birds. :)

Some people.

My friend from Norway is paranoid about Global Warming slowing the gulf stream and leading to a localised ice age.

2 Chinas, 2 Congos and a Macedonia that the Greek government refuses to endorse.

I thought he was dead.

Didn't Seth Rogen shoot him?

It's summer in February, you insensitive clod!

(At least in my hemisphere.)

HTML, CSS and JS aren't proprietary.

Mozilla attempt to standardize any JS 'native' libraries to the w3c in collaboration with other vendors. Apache Cordova fills in the rest.

This is nothing like ActiveX.