You don't need a university education in order to hit a ball with a golf club. In sports starting early is good since you have to transition from playing to coaching after reaching a certain age.

If you're under 20 you probably haven't had a real job and don't really understand finance.
You'd work 80 hours a week concentrating on technical details while the VC deliberately screws up finance. Once the money runs out, you'll be offered more money in exchange for giving up a percentage of your ownership in the company. Repeat these steps a few times and you'll end up owning just 5-10%.
This requires careful brainwashing by the VC in order for you to do your best. They have to make you believe that you'll own the company once it starts running profitable, nobody is going to work their ass off for a 5% ownership.

Cr-48 is not certified for use in other countries. 3G didn't work in Moscow until recently because it interfered with aerial defense systems.

I always thought that Kinect was a software-only solution. Why on Earth would you want to buy a $200 thee-eyed webcam? Realtime image recognition is a very CPU-intensive task and is performed by the xbox CPU. My bet is that the software R&D costs were at least one figure higher that the hardware.

Google gets a percentage from every sale in Android Market. Most apps that use AdMob ads also generate revenue for Google. In fact I think there aren't any AdSense ads in the mobile version of Google Search, so Google's loss in case Bing is used as the default search is ZERO.

More likely the low-wage security worker didn't bother to read the policy.

Pure C benchmarks are meaningless. If you spend a significant amount of time on browsing, including Flash games, and typical office tasks, these real-world matter a low more than C performance.

This machine is probable capable of playing Crysis with a framerate higher that 20fps

I had an Olympus Camedia C830L camera and it required a special "panorama" SM card (obviously more expensive than regular cards) to be able to take panorama images. Turns out that after using a modified format utility an ordinary SM card could be turned into "panorama" card.
The process was complicated, the first phase involved damaging contents of the first sectors. The card was no longer recognized by Windows or the camera. After that the modified restore utility restored the proper sectors, along with the "panorama" marker.

I thought it was "A Large Ion Collider Experiment"

Hear, hear. I've developed an image processing algorithm in Java and C++ (pretty simple: for every pixel in floating point array, compute some basic stuff, create a few classes to simplify the storage of temporary values and save the result into another array). The code was as close as possible in both languages, with no obvious screwups like memory leaks or unnecessary copying of stuff. To my surprise Java ended up being 15-20% faster than C++. And C++ is THE language for image processing, every new image processing algorithm is written in C++ (with the occasional exception of C) because of performance reasons.

The site does work in Linux, however in Windows a Javascript rule removes the video, replacing them with a link to download Quicktime.

And after removing Flash and Java and publishing the "We want the web to be open" public letter Apple still requires Quicktime to watch videos on their own website. Hypocrites.