Yeah, it's not like there are already cheaper and more powerful options for a mini-pc than a Mac Mini; I'm sure Intel was just so threatened by Apple's second least popular product.
Face it, this Intel initiative is about semi-ubiquitous computing with a bit of a general twist. Not a response to the Mac that's seen the least innovation/interest.

No, it's most certainly not surprisingly low.
Apple has piles of money; they're not recouping losses from development with the price, just wanting more profit.
Amazon also has an app store of their own.
It's not surprisingly low, it's surprising how high it is and how someone could possibly be open to the idea of higher profit margins on their devices.

...make submissions about RMS, then? Are we waiting for HURD to ride his every sentence?

Windows 8 isn't had for gaming, it's just bad for Valve. Vale has wanted Steam to be a general App Store for a long while, and if regular plebes start using the Windows Marketplace, they'll lose that battle before they even begin. Valve's just concerned with their potential market being at risk.

"The gnu — which, on closer inspection, was an activist in a gnu suit"
It's hard to tell the two apart sans suit, sometimes.

Said as a GNU/Linux enthusiast.

Exactly that. Windows Phone 8, Windows RT, and Windows all have a common kernel, so MS wants people to port their Windows 8 apps into Windows Phone apps with "a few" lines of code. They chose this way for a number of reasons, one of which was an attempt to make developing, internally, Windows RT cheaper/easier than adding all that they wanted to do to Windows Phone.

Windows Phone was never meant to. I don't know where you get the idea that it was from.

Perhaps not. This is a very poorly-thought out idea, and definitely not a complete one.

I personally don't think that this specific idea is ever going to be feasible, but the general idea of using the moon as secondary hub for a large scale, interbodied military/scientific/navigation network isn't going to be feasible for at least twenty-five years at the earliest, and probably more than thirty. I feel like most of the investment in information is going to be confined to Earth until the hardened technology underlying space travel/exploration improves a bit.

I think the idea is to use the actual mass of the moon to cool, not the vacuum of space.

I think it's more than 69%.

What if you're traveling to the future that would have existed had you traveled into the future and gotten the sports almanac?

I accidentally modded you down, so I'm using this comment to negate it.

This is the "Businesses" icon, not the Microsoft one.

Funny how Slashdot as a whole can immediately recognize this crap as trolling, but falls for the first-post MS messages every single time.

They're not new tech, no more than Apple's "retina" brand is. It's new that they're becoming mainstream. Mann has had similar (and better) tech for the better part of the last thirty years.