At least San Francisco is mostly well above sea level...oh wait, who cares, they're on major earthquake faults....they'll be causing the next tsunami heading west from them. Scratch that.

You want proof that you are right? Head to California and visit any one of the Redwood forests. They usually have a huge cross-section of a giant tree that was cut down or fell down. Look a the rings over the past 2,000 years (which some of these trees can show). It will show a hundred year of large thick rings and then 100 year of tight small rings (more or less). Sometimes, several rings very tight and then several rings very big. I'm not a "scientist" or biologist, but even I can tell that the climate was different for years, decades and centuries. Sometimes the change is very fast... At least this article is somewhat accurate by using words like "influence" and "contributing factor"...yes, please, tell us what the other contributing factors and influences are.

that will cure them pretty quick.

problem with this. You have so many differing opinions, perspectives, insights, and understandings that we can all agree that our consumption of food is a part of the problem. The other part is that our activity level has greatly decreased as well. If you are running hard all day long in hard labor work, most of this doesn't matter...you'll burn what you eat. When I work hard, my appetite actually decreases...get too tired to eat.

That's fine. I'll be offensive and you can be naive. If you find that trust and honesty and integrity is high on everyone's list all around the world, then go ahead and send out all the electronics and money you want all around the world. It's your money.

I travel a lot around the world in 3rd world countries helping the poor. I don't think their challenge is in manufacturing or getting these out to the field. The challenge will be finding a way for the tablets to not be immediately sold for cash when the people are in need of food and medicine to survive. Heck, pass these out for free in the 1st world conditions and where will they end up. I'm sorry, but it would be nice to help the kids and schools and teachers, but none of these will be in a classroom 1 year after they are given out.

Sounds like you are describing the current travel and traffic patterns of India.

as the general market for the gamers is well understood and girlfriends are not.

Just getting harder and harder to say something with tongue in cheek on /. without people trying to take it literal. Geesh...my nerd friends really are lacking in any creative thought related to humor. I'll spell it out next time and put something at the end that says, "This is a joke. Please reserve your derogatory comments for those that are seriously stating something silly. This is meant to be silly and absurd. If you take it literally, you are a dufus.

Sounds like they'd be better off just figuring out how to put a gas station in space and have all the of the satellites simply stop for a fill up from time to time. Can you imagine the fuel prices at that pump?

I think the problem created by this law is that there is not a per year limit or per person but a limit on costs related to a specific illness. Their current system doesn't care or handle the ability to differentiate between cancer with a certain limit and perhaps a broken back, which I guess has no limit. Nice of congress to determine who will really benefit in this new system for us. My wife has MS and won't benefit the same way, I suppose.

Hillarious, Mr. IT Awesomeness, that you admit that for most people this is enough. So I guess you're real point is that only the 10% that do REAL computing need to have anything at all and the rest of the people shouldn't have any device or should have something way over-powered for their needs. You may call it a useless, but whether it is perfect of not for you (and nothing out there is), it meets a need and does so well enough for many. Sure, the Surface is not a hit, but I find it enough for basic road computing while traveling a lot to third-world countries where over-powered laptops are a bigger pain and liability than benefit in computing power. Sorry for not being power-hungry in my needs right now. I do realize that your job depends on people needing more computers and not less. Get perspective on other needs of other people around the world and see that there are places where devices outside of your inventory can be great for other people doing other things.

Boy, going around feeling superior to everyone must be great. I want to be just like you. Please, in a prideful way, show me how to make more friends like you. Oh yeh, just buy anything Apple like you and it will happen. Thanks for the tip.

I'm writing on my Surface right now while traveling in Bolivia. I know it is fun to slam MS on everything they make and many will wet their pants when Apple comes out with a new digital tennis shoe that will record your steps and post it on Facebook someday. For me, the Surface RT beats out my ultrabook for portability and durability (beginning to get screen marks on the Samsung Series 9 from getting it mashed in the overhead bin of the planes), the battery lasts a long time, the type keyboard is great (not the touch version), and it has most of the programs I need for regular work.

Of course, I'm not designing with CAD on this...will do that when I get home. I'm not programming either...will do that when I get home. While traveling, this is better than a tablet and laptop for the basic needs that many have. I will look forward to Outlook because that is what I use at home as well as a hundred million other people. Get that basic tool included (which should have been in the first release) and this will be even better for us power-travelers that don't need power-laptops.

Actually, reverse commute is nothing. So long as you are not working on the weekends, you would be flying over the hill both ways if you lived in the valley and worked in SC. Having lived there for many years and commuted before rush hour each day, I can say that the 'isolation' is completely what you are used to. If you are used to lots of highways, malls, and suburbia, then SC will not be for you. If you like the ocean, mountains, laid back life and can get a job there, I'd think for many it would be utopia....hence the purpose of this title post to get more businesses over there so people don't have to commute and can perhaps surf before coming into the office.