And how many people know of Native Client, let alone about chrome://flags? Not to mention that advice won't work then not using a persistent Chrome profile. And Google removed "--disable-plugins" so it is not even possible to automate disabling these plugins short of recompiling Chromium.
Lobsters, shrimps or mussles are actually delicious, and are thus expensive. Insects or dog/cat meat on the other aren't, as otherwise they would have been adopted into worldwide diet long time ago. So today they still remain a cheap source of food in some third world countries.
It's a positive development, not sure the negative comments. 5% is chump change if a game is successfull. The engine is also open source (so no hidden malware), runs on Linux and WebGL.
Best option would be a bitcoin blockchain connected to government run internal blockchain (or similar) systems. That would offload huge amount of trivial transactions, simplify current archaic internal systems and reduce effectiveness of using sanctions for economic wars - which can easily turn to hot wars otherwise.
Netflix is only winning in the U.S and some western Europe states. Given the current political issues and copyright enforcement it is unlikely to win in the East unless it is dirt cheap. And I'm not sure if Netflix has same day TV releases. If not, then it can't compete with same day releases.
Right now in Russia you can buy an Android 4.4 smartphone (Beeline Smart 3) with Wifi, GPS and 4 inch screen for $30. Not sure how Microsoft's phone can compete with similarly priced Chinese or Indian smartphones.
The official emulator is so slow it's a joke. Genymotion or Intel HAXM are a bit better but the whole process is clunky. Once Google introduces Android runtime to Chrome, developing for Android should become much easier.
I'm running Archlinux from a flash stick on a cheap Haswell Celeron. From BIOS to chromium/wifi on is about 20-30 seconds. And I'm using connman so it could be faster with directly using wpa_supplicant/dhcpcd. On Windows it took up to two 2 minutes. So it is definitely an issue with hardware and drivers not Linux in general. Also using old hardware (including old wifi dongles) is a recipe for headaches. A cheap Haswell laptop or a desktop coupled with Linux friendly wifi dongle or a card should work fine.
Bitcoin price should stabilize if there are more transactions.
Biggest issues now are slow payment time, hoarders and over-reliance on few exchanges. I think higher price and faster payment/withdrawal times would decrease the price eventually as bitcoin holders would have more incentive to spend/take profit while the price is high and exchanges would be forced to sell coins after a transaction for merchant withdrawals. For hoarding, if protocol can be updated to charge higher transaction fee for long-held coins, this should make it less profitable to hoard and increase number of transactions.
Ascend W1 costs $300, so Microsoft is subsidising 50% of the phone. Not sure how that is not considered as price dumping.
Also, the 4Afrika website looks like a typical short-lived Microsoft marketing initiative.
Another fail from VIA after their earlier Android PC, which was derided on their forums for being too slow. There are tons of mini pcs now available with double the specs of the VIA pc and up to 2x lower price. Some even have 2GB RAM and can run Ubuntu with hardware acceleration.
I'd say they should be more worried about ChromeOS, as the Samsung Chromebook is still #1 on Amazon laptops despite all the marketing money spent on Windows 8.
For Android, if Google added desktop mode and improved performance, and well-known OEMs released stick PCs with 4GB RAM and quad-core ARM A15, then Android could become a serious contender in the low-end market.
Plenty of people are buying Chromebooks and Nexus devices. In fact both Samsung and Acer Chromebooks are out of stock and Nexus devices are obviously out of stock. And of course, Apple owns the $1000 and above market.
So obviously fewer people are willing to pay Microsoft premium for the dubious upgrade to Startrek interface.