I think that the Pi was supposed to be a desktop system. It has a HDMI port and can decode 1080p video. That is a desktop device. Flash is a none starter for sure but YouTube should have worked.
The Pi is really cool but I think it has real issues at this time.
1. The GPU is not being used well. From what I hear X is not yet using the GPU for acceleration.
2. Limited RAM.
3. Slow IO. SD cards are not very speedy.
The first they can fix. The third might be fixable with using a USB Hard drive or a NAS.
It would be great if this could run say OpenOffice and play videos well. Schools and libraries could have whole labs of them all running form an inexpensive NAS and with a print server.
As a hacking tool this is great. For a general education tool it could also be really good but limited right now. As a programing education tool it could be really good, Do they have Squeak running on it yet? I know Python is up and working and they have a BBC Basic for it.
The thing is that this is a developers release. It isn't soup yet. It is really cool and full of potential but Endgadet was reviewing it as a finished product which it really isn't yet. I do think it is good that it showed it's curent limitations so the developers can work on eliminating them.

You are incorrect. Let's take the fracking case for example.
Judge A is a geologist.
Judge B is a lawyer.

I am not talking about an oilfield worker but someone educated in the field. Without at least some significant knowledge on the subject it becomes nothing more than who is the better speaker.
Think of all the idiots on slashdot that will still repeat the BS that low level EM causes health issues or that the many supposed causes of autism.
Or lets take the more cynical view. A Judge that didn't understand geology might just be less accepting of positive data and and will want to take the route of "better safe than sorry". Of course that is also the cause of so many other rulings involving science and technology that drives people on Slashdot crazy. Like "People use proxies for kiddie porn" which is true but they use it for other reasons as well but we should ban them just to be sure. Or Torrents are used for piracy.....
Bet you want a judge that might have actually used torrents to download an ISO then don't you?

I worry about anyone that praises ignorance over knowledge. The only reason for that is allow for manipulation.

Hummm Shouldn't it be made even simpler to add POIs than RTFM? Think about it? Things like phone number and website should be far more automated when editing than that. After all people are adding this for free when they feel like it. It is not exactly a fun hobby.

Ideally one big motor is the way to go. But their are reasons for using more than one. The Falcon 9 has an engine out capability so having on of the motors fail is not game over. Also they did it for production reasons. They use the same motor with some minnor modifications for both the first and second stage which saves money. You have one production line for both motors and one stock of most of the parts for the motors.
The Falcon 9 is interesting because it is not the most "efficient' design but the most cost effective. They could replace the steel tanks with LiAl allow and save a good amount of weight, replace the second stage with a LH/LOX burning second stage, or even replace the first stage with a liquid CH4 first stage with a large single motor.
The Flacon is built more like a DC-3 than say the Hughes H-1.

That isn't really fair and some of the the issues it brings up are real.
Frankly the adding POIs I find a bit confusing. Some people will outline the building and or parking lot while others do not. I have added some POIs myself but I found it a bit limited. I found no way to add a phone number to a POI or a website which seems a bit silly. IMHO I think OSM should create a FourSquare type app for check ins and work hard to encourage local businesses to add themselves as POIs. In fact a local business POI could be a source of revenue for OSM as well as data.
The other issue is that OSM uses the Wikipedia style of Open vs the Linux style of Open. While anybody can can take the Linux source and fork it if you want to add code to Linux you have to get your changes approved. On OSM just about anyone has commit privileges Nothing stops me from creating a fake account and trashing the data with bad info. Sure it will get fixed but it will take time.
Finally paying people to work on a project can produce a more complete data set. Some things are really hard and have a limited market. For those areas FOSS just doesn't work all that well. A good example is 3d Cad. None of the 3D programs really compete with SolidWorks, ProE, and Autodesk's products. The same is true right now for mapping.
Go to Enterprise Or on open street map and on Google maps. Which has more street names? Which has more POIs?
I really like OSM and think that more people should support it but TomToms comments are true. You will get a better, more complete map from them than OSM for not much money.
Now if we could get local states, towns, and other entities to start adding data to OSM than that could change but with just people like me adding POIs from memory when we feel like it... Well not likely.
And just for the record Google maps can also have bad data in them. Thing is that they have more data to start with.

I did a film researcher is making the claim that it is "propaganda". I promise you that no where in that manual is the word propaganda is used. That film researcher doesn't know that the word means. Not only that but odds are he is allowing an anti military bias to color his statement leading to that error. To imply that this is propaganda is to further compound the error.

An Arm board with two SATA ports running OpenFiler would be a "proper NAS".
One of the strengths of FOSS is the ability to create systems using off the shelf hardware and FOSS software.
USB is not going to fast enough or reliable enough for anything but a home NAS.
You can get as I said two ARM boards that I know of with SATA ports. http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/2011/03/01/new-low-cost-cortex-a8-board-from-freescale/ and http://www.hawkboard.org/
Both lack GigaE and more than one SATA port.
Now this is an option http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/arm-sbc.php.

Propaganda?
So are we trying to convince people that we should fight space aliens that attack from under water?

Recruitment != Propaganda.

Even things like the Thunderbirds and Blue Angles are for recruitment and public relations. Things like fleet day, airshows, and even cooperating with model airplane makers fit that category.

Yep the lack of SATA is a real PITA. I have found only two ARM boards that support SATA but they only have one port.
Give me two SATA ports and you now have a low power NAS or and or VOIP box.