Some people, such as a PlayStation fan on Slashdot who will remain nameless, would argue that a barrier to entry is a good thing. It ensures that anybody who wants to distribute software to the public is serious about creating quality software. It's a fallacy, but like other fallacies, appeal to accomplishment springs from a heuristic: companies that have successfully published quality works in the past are more likely to publish quality works in the future. The example he likes to trot out is the North American video game recession of 1983, when there was so much shovelware crap on store shelves that neither players nor retailers could find which 2600 games were worthwhile. The North American market pretty much abandoned video games until the fourth quarter of 1985 when Nintendo added a lockout chip to its new Nintendo Entertainment System to assure retailers that only games that Nintendo had evaluated for a certain baseline quality level would be allowed to run.

In context Berra probably meant "Nobody [among my circle of friends] goes there anymore. It's too crowded [with people of other demographics]."

My Nexus 7 tablet running Android 4.2 has an on-screen button to the right of "Home" to bring up screenshots of the five most recently used applications, and the list scrolls. A similar menu shows if I pair a ZAGGkeys Flex keyboard, hold the Alt/Option key, and press the Tab key a few times.

The HTC Dream ran Android 1. Is Android 4 as lean as Android 1?

Here's a link to AIDE you: Eclipse clone for Android

What you want is an Asus Transformer, but that might be out of your price range. There are two other ways to go about this. You could find a netbook that Android-x86 supports, or you could add a Bluetooth keyboard to any Android tablet.

Probably because Samsung doesn't want to lose the license to include Google Play Store and the rest of the Gapps. Please see the replies from Google engineers in a Google+ thread linked from Andy Dodd's comment.

For running applications that are ported to Android but not ported to Chrome Web Store. Or is there an automated way to make such ports by now?

I'd be willing to consider evidence otherwise. But the sale of PCs that include Intel integrated graphics and no discrete graphics card, combined with the success of video game consoles, shows that people are in fact satisfied with PCs that can't do much more than homework and Facebook. In fact, one householder in my survey sample told me that in a cash crunch, he would cut off Internet to his household before cutting off pay TV.

Since when is Microsoft Office ported to Android? I thought mobile Microsoft Office was exclusive to Windows Phone and Windows RT, just as Halo 3 is exclusive to Xbox 360. Even the port of LibreOffice can't be released yet because it's too big for Google Play Store.

In a Slashdot comment, "nobody cares" is likely to mean "not enough people care to create economies of scale." Small budget laptops running GNU/Linux, for example, were a commercial failure because the supermajority of users turned out to expect Windows. (That and the fact that a lot of these netbooks shipped with launchers even more horrible than some people make Ubuntu Unity or GNOME Shell out to be.)

Then I guess the debate is about the scope of what each "Allow" action allows. Should "Allow" allow all documents on all hosts in this domain to transclude all resources on the Web until the user says otherwise in a well-hidden settings page? Should it allow only resources on one page to transclude resources from one hostname, with the permission forgotten as soon as the user navigates away from the page?

Most of your points sound reasonable except for one thing. I was unsure of the intended tone in one part of your comment. Is it bad to be "coding from your basement"? Is there a better way to earn the money needed to start a "proper" company?

And some people can't help but suck at Twister. Take Brooke Nelson McArthur for instance (article; video).

If video games weren't a valid nexus around which humans can engage in social interaction, then why did the Atari 2600 console have two controller ports in the first place?

And Ouya brings the audience of people who prefer to do it inside video games to developers who work from home.

WebGL doesn't necessarily "expose" the GPU to the web application any more than a site that allows HTML comments "exposes" the viewer's browser to the user posting a comment. Slashdot and several other web sites allow users to post comments with a subset of HTML. Arbitrary HTML can perform cross-site scripting using <script> elements, attributes whose name starts with "on", and URLs using the "javascript:" scheme. To prevent this, forum software used by these sites parses and sanitizes the provided HTML before passing it to the web browser. Likewise, a web browser should sanitize WebGL shader code before passing it to the host OpenGL implementation.