I know, I have looked at it, but Motorola is hard to get a hold on in the Netherlands, if you want it bundled with the contract. Would've gone for that one otherwise. :-)

Hmm, I think current smartphones are far too big.
I'd kill for a nicely sized 3.5" android phone like the HTC Rhyme, but then with the innards of a current smartphone, e.g. "high" resolution screen (minimally apple's 960x640), dual- or quad-core snapdragon, good battery life (minimally 2 days high usage), and bonus if it's a core android system, so nexus style, rootable, no proprietary stuff nor bloatware. Extra props if it has that water-proofing those new sony phones have.
I don't really care about phones being 7.5mm thin, I don't mind having a few millimeters extra if that means I actually have a battery worth its salt, because realistically you don't really notice those two millimeters extra during usage. It's just a bragging thing between producers really. It's not like phones nowadays are the refrigerator models of ye olden days.

If anything like that is thrown on the market, I'd buy it. Got a SGS2 now, but it's just a bit too large for my taste, and I doubt I'm the only one that thinks this.
I really wonder why the producers don't offer real choice, instead of having 200 small and underpowered devices, and 10 oversized and nicely powered devices.

I didn't mention windows 8 and that's quite off-topic, but I agree, it's not great. I think blogphilofilms explains it perfectly in his review. Especially the part about the four C's:
Control: The user should be the person in control of the computer at all times;
Conveyance: The user should be able to figure out where to go and what to do;
Continuity: Users should be able to expect that similar actions will yield similar results;
Context: Users should be able to see information and options at a glance.

Microsoft has done a lot in recent years to make Internet Explorer a lot safer, and the latest version has actually become reasonably safe, especially considering where it was coming from. But yeah, the inability to install the latest version on older operating systems isn't helping at all, because despite the fact that people really shouldn't be using XP anymore, as it's EOL now, they still do. Especially large corporations have been and are reluctant to upgrade. Only being able to run a lower version IE on those systems is quite the security risk. IE 10 won't even run on Vista...

Completely agree on the fact that a single option is the worst thing we could get.

You assume death represents zero freedom, which is incorrect. Death doesn't represent zero freedom, it represents am empty collection of freedoms. It's not zero, it's not one, it's not infinite, it's nothing.

I know nothing about the lawsuit or the whole scientific paper stuff, but it's a shame that such a bright mind is lost to the world now. All we can do now, and all I'll do is wish his family and friends all the best in the coming difficult time.

It's your opinion that you don't like the interface of Internet Explorer. I agree with you on that, it doesn't hold my preference either, but that doesn't make it a shitty interface. There's a reason why many people still use Internet Explorer.
You may call it what you will, (inertia, stubbornness, laziness, unwillingness to change,) but truth is that many people just prefer it and Internet Explorer is still popular amongst a big group of users, and in the same way you and I could be called the same for not wanting to change our opinion of browsers. Be it Firefox, Chrome, Opera, or whatever way you browse the web.

Just because you don't like a certain interface, doesn't make it shitty.

Why should Microsoft move to WebKit? I mean, yeah, it's a more secure browser engine perhaps, but it's still their prerogative to use their own. I think it'll be more important for Microsoft -- and any browser (engine) for that matter -- to follow the W3C standard accurately, possibly with their own extensions if they want, but in the basis they should support the standard to make sure web sites render uniformly and accurately over all browsers.
That'll finally bring more choice to the user, in stead of the pseudo-choice now.
I prefer opera and have that installed as my default browser, but still have IE and Chrome installed because some websites will only work on either of those. Between the three I can open all sites that I need, but it shouldn't be necessary if all just follow the standards, and consequently, all web sites only need to be written to that standard as well.

You're not entirely correct.
Kilogram is a SI base unit. Newton is a SI Derived unit.
Furthermore, kilogram is most often used for weight, but Newton for force. Slightly different use.

Among other things: The Mars Climate Orbiter. This was "just" a $655M mishap, but things like this happen all the time. Not to mention that imperial calculations are just f'd up for scientific and engineering purposes.

Incorrect. Check the download link, and select more options.
You can select your architecture there, be it 32 or 64 bit. I've been running on 64-bit for quite some time already.

Unless you want to repeat randomness...

Tekgoblin posts his own blog here, which has less information, and no crowd comments.
He also got all his info from this engadget story, but fails to mention the sources of which engadget got their information (Twitter: @andreasudo).

It's been like this for at least as long as I can remember. As a toddler we used to fill up in Germany because that was a lot cheaper. That was about 30 years ago.

You clearly don't live in the Netherlands or surrounding countries.
There is no cheap fuel to get in NL. It wouldn't surprise me if we'd have the most expensive fuel in the world even. Dutch people already go to Germany and Belgium to get cheaper fuel.