That's what I read, at first.

No, it doen't make sense. :)

"It seems to be the reason (or excuse) for why all sorts interesting things don't get done."

When it comes to drinking there ARE all sorts of excuses!

"you can’t improve what you can’t measure"?

Huh?! Well, that doesn't preclude that you can improve what you can measure.

Yes, I believe that valuable insights can be gained from what you can measure. For example, if your data couldn't determine a success factor that is a valuable result in itself! The insight then is "there must be an unknown factor we have not included in our model".

What is the big deal? I also think that the unexpected can be found within a mainstream setting, it all but takes a glimpse of genius to discover it. Finding that genius recipe in the dark, without any previous experience is silly, ignorant and ill-informed. Think of the angry birds authors who had made about a hundred games before they hit gold. That was no luck. They had the experience. Systematizing that 'hovering feeling' experience into a mathematical model? Why not? It still takes genuine talent to make it fun and implement it well.

Microsoft most likely won't provide "healthy competition". History has shown that they are on the same low level as Apple when it comes to competetion.

Don't fool yourselves.

Why do people use decimals on a non-metric system? sigh...

"the average price for a gallon of gas in the U.S. was higher in 2012 than in any year before it"

Huh? The average price for just about anything in the U.S. was higher in 2012 than in any year before it...

The Reuters article referred to 2.1 trillion rubles:

"Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved a plan to spend 2.1 trillion roubles ($68.71 billion) on developing Russia's space industry from 2013 to 2020, state-run RIA news agency reported."

A lot of money in any case.

Steve Ballmer. You have some work to do. Get Windows 7 back on track. Happy New Year.

WT?

We need oxygen-producing bacteria, like cyanobacteria.

We don't need meat-eating microbes on Mars. Good to see they found out this before-hand. Hmmm... Or did they? How do we know the little rover bugger wasn't filled with them?! Maybe it is already too late!

When the US surpassed Europe - How dare they?
When the China surpasses US - How dare they?

Of course they dare. It is their 'obligation' to try. And if they win out big we won't hear about those embarrassing inbreds from Alabama and Kentucky discussing evolution any more. From what I have understood, Chinese are more pragmatic than any Bible reader, or?

Metro ruined my face

"was it running windows 8 ?"

Bad question. You are not allowed to defile people with disabilities, in most countries.

For me, running Wndows 8 equates you have some retardation. This is my understanding of it.

I may be wrong, but no-one has ever contested that with any medical proof.

"Well, it isn't ready for desktops either! :D"

Well, Windows 8 sucks even more on desktops. The ENTIRE WORLD KNOWS that...

KDE is cool with touch-based devices, not perfect, yet better than Win 8! :)

KDE is probably the best option for anyone using mouse and keyboard.

If not, forget it as a temporary workaround.