I like Windows 8, and it's better with Classic Shell. But your issues with Windows 8 don't really belong here since Windows 8 came out in August, 2012. Of course back then I upgraded from Windows 7 Home premium to Windows 8 Professional for $15 for each of my two computers. I wouldn't have liked it as much if I had to pay more.

It doesn't hurt that it's pretty trivial to put Ubuntu on these things. I have a Samsung Chromebook with the dual-core Cortex A-15 processor, and I put Ubuntu 12.04 on it. All the things I can't do i ChromeOS (image editing, etc.) I do in Ubuntu.

er, I meant $500/year. When she sold the property, the new owner paid significantly more than that (starts at 1%/year).

Honestly I don't know. I also don't know how this affects non-ARM Android devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1, which uses Intel's Atom processor.

Actually they do. The NDK is used when speed is necessary (eg games).

They were protesting in Oakland, which is generally supposed to be cheaper than SF.

Spoken from someone who doesn't live in California. Property tax increases are capped in California. It stays closer to the rate at the time of purchase throughout the years. IE, my boss's mom had a house in Pebble Beach. Her property taxes were about $500/month even though the place was worth several $100k at the time.

Well, then it'll just be OS/2 all over again. A better DOS than DOS, a better Windows thant Windows, so why bother writing native apps?

Say what? We still make airplanes, cars, processors, drugs, etc. in this country. If you don't consider that high tech manufacturing, I don't know what is then.

Your history is rather off. The 386 never had an integrated FPU. 386 DX had a 32-bit bus. The 386 SX had a 16-bit bus for cost saving measures. The 486 DX was the one with the integrated FPU, and that was the first to include the FPU by default. The 486 SX had the FPU fused off.

This only happens for the first kid. Subsequent kids usually don't get as much scrutiny.

Or maybe it's just me. I found physical chemistry more challenging.

This is so annoying. The Tesla S is a competitor to the BMW 5 series, Audi 6 series, and the Mercedes-Benz E series. And I know why the automotive press is not saying this: they want page views! This new Cadillac is definitely not a competitor direct competitor to the Tesla S because the buyers are completely different.

Here are some tests I've done on my devices compiling Povray 3.6 (single threaded) and rendering the benchmark scene. I was rather surprised that my new Nexus 4 (Qualcomm S4) is slower per core than my SGS II (Samsung Exynos 4). Yet the Nexus 4 doesn't feel any slower and is my main phone now due to the larger and higher resolution screen.

Athlon II x4 (2.8 GHz): 179.82 pps ; 64.22 pps/GHz
Exynos 5 (1.7 GHz): 77.36 pps ; 45.51 pps/GHz (-mfloat-abi=hard -mcpu=cortex-a9 -mthumb -mthumb-interwork)
PowerPC 750 (700 MHz): 20.47 pps ; 29.25 pps/GHz

Exynos 4210 (1.2 GHz): 29.90 pps ; 24.91 pps/GHz (-mfloat-abi=hard)
Pentium 4m (1.5 GHz): 36.24 pps ; 24.16 pps/GHz
S4 Pro APQ8064 (1.5 GHz): 31.81 pps ; 21.20 pps/GHz (-mfoat-abi=hard -mcpu=cortex-a15)
Atom N270 (1.6 GHz): 28.96 pps ; 18.10 pps/GHz

Unfortunately can't post all the data I have because this site thinks there're too many 'junk' characters already...

Except there's data to support that helicopter example. There's no data to support what this cleric just pulled out of his ass.