I've seen both of those movies, and I just finished The Human Division just yesterday. The movies are great, and the book is good, but the book itself and TFA aren't related to the movies really at all. They could be, but Scalzi chooses to treat the CDF warriors as modified humans, rather than a different species entirely.

The desks at my work are on hydraulics, so they can be raised or lowered at will. It's great to be able to raise your desk and stand for a while after sitting for a couple hours, but I wouldn't want to have to be forced to stand all the time.

The desks get high enough that I can push my high-backed office chair underneath it, and low enough to get probably two feet or so off the ground. It's a great compromise between having to sit or stand the entire day.

Oh come on. I can't imagine that this $400 "satellite" has a propulsion system of any kind. It will deorbit in months if not weeks, and burn up on reentry in to the atmosphere. This satellite isn't going to be space junk.

The speed limit is 75 most of the way through Nebraska on I-80. :-)

Indeed, here's a photo of someone using their Android phone to watch the keynote.

Hank Hill disagrees with you. :-)

Frankly, that's Adobe's fault, not ours.

Here's an easy one for you: Turdus migratorius, or the American Robin. I learned that one when I was like 5, and remembered it solely because it had the word "Turd" in it. :-)

There should be a "bad puns" mod option...

Thank you, Xzibit.

This is actually quite similar what happens in the Hyperion books, except with nanotech instead of viruses.

No idea why, but the video page linked in the summary totally kills my Kubuntu box. Had to do a hard restart, twice, until I finally just decided to try not watching the videos. :-(

I thought everyone used the PS3 for this sort of off-the-shelf supercomputer thing.

Sure... but the 1600x1200 of 1999-2000 is 1920x1200 or higher these days.