If you'd like an actual C/C++ compiler that uses LLVM, try either llvm-gcc or Clang, which is probably going to be a serious competitor to gcc in a year or two.

Speaking if which, where's the latest version of the ROMs (or patches)? Surely the pirates are all over this.

They can protect their trademark just by saying "Don't call it Chrono Trigger, and include some disclaimers saying that you aren't affiliated with Square".

But that also means that it will be easy to port to other devices using different processor types. This way if they port Android to run on (say) ARM and Atom netbooks, the programs people wrote will still work without needing to compile two different versions.

All I see is a map. What point are you trying to make here? Could you spell it out?

For anybody who's wondering what the hell you guys are talking about, Retief is the protagonist of a series of satirical science fiction books and short stories, some of which you can read here for free. Very fun stuff.

And since these are the first AP-1000 reactors built, they're expecting the costs of subsequent reactors to come down to about $1 billion per reactor, IIRC.

Link please? All the sources I could find are explicitly stating that Android's VM does not have a JIT compiler. This saves memory, but can slow down code that spends a lot of time in the JVM. (The Android guys do say, however, that a JIT is definitely on their to-do list. For what it's worth.)

No, æthernet would more likely be a packet-based CSMA-using wireless networking method. Something like Wi-Fi would count.

So be sure not to use the Google C Compiler. Be careful; they sometimes just call it gcc, so as to hide its sinister Googlywoogly origin.

This is where Android comes in. It wasn't designed just for cell phones; it was also intended to run on netbooks, and Google seems to be going that way. Think about it: an open-source, Linux-based operating system built for small-screen devices, with major corporate support behind it. Microsoft should be shaking in its MS Boots.

Upside-down tomato growing is common, and it works for a variety of other plants as well. Link.

The longer-term goal of many (most?) Lunar X-Prize teams is to make money by selling cheap moon missions. What you want may happen in a few years, but they're looking for something simpler on the first mission. Plus, this establishes a baseline for later experiments.

The X-Prize people are all trying to make lunar missions a lot cheaper than anything we're doing on the space station. And since they're going to the moon anyway, why not bring a plant along?

NASA's miniature nuclear reactor for the moon would be more practical. It's about the size of a trash can.