My 1998 Toyota Camry gets 32MPG (city or highway, thanks to shutting off the engine at red lights), and it is a lot more practical and safer than a '72 Beetle.

I completely agree that modern cars are too large and over powered, but really old cars are not the answer.

Properly small cars (like are seen in Europe) with modern engines are a much better idea. By far the biggest problem is that gas is too cheap to get people out of their massive SUVs and into cars that meet the needs of everyday driving, not off-roading and track days.

An ounce is ~28.35g, and a US fluid ounce is ~29.57ml, so they are not the same at all. An imperial fluid ounce is 28.41ml, which is very close, but still not quite 1 ounce of water.

100g is metric. If your toothpaste tube was in imperial, it would be 3.53oz.

I meant native codecs, not native plugins.

Mac OS 10.6 most certainly does have support for H.264 out of the box, and I imagine that 10.5 and possibly earlier versions have it as well.

I'm not usually too keen of what MS do, but I think that using the OS's native codecs makes a lot of sense, and Mozilla really need to get off their high horse and implement native plugin use for all OSes that they support. A plugin is not ideal, but it's a hell of a lot better than not having H.264 support in Firefox, hopefully Mozilla will look at this and decide it is something that should be built in to their browser.

I'm assuming this is the end of Flash updates on Software Update. I heard on Engadget that Apple are going to stop supporting Java, which is much bigger news, as Oracle doesn't currently offer a Mac build.

I use Chrome to get around this. The dev build has click to run for plugins, which is so much better than manually disabling Flash and then enabling it for sites you want to use it on.
My 13" MBP's battery life has gone from 4.5-5.5 hours to 5.5-6.5 hours when web browsing. No more getting bored in the last lecture of day because the battery has gone flat.

Except that one of my main reasons for using laptops is saving power. I am also a Mac user (rest of the family aren't), and my MacBook Pro 13" cost less than a low end iMac anyway.

In my house, most computers are laptops with external monitors, it allows for portability while still having the ergonomics of a proper desktop setup.

Unless your N95 is completely different to the two Symbian phones I have owned, you can move the icons into different folders and put them where you want. I have a folder called "Crap" for all the apps I don't use. You access the move functions by pressing Options in the menu (left soft key).

I agree, I use the Expose four finger swipe very frequently (so much I feel lost on my iMac), but the side to side application switching is useless, Cmd+Tab is way faster.

iPad does 720p. In fact, in some countries (including my own), Apple TVs and iPads are the only way to buy HD movies on iTunes. Funny, seeing as the iPad hasn't launched here yet.

Umm... more like almost 75% market share.

The Kordia solution is going to be a load of crap. I was referring to the Pacific Fiber Cable, which is privately owned, with the intent of reducing bandwidth prices so NZ businesses can make use of the internet properly. National have completely screwed up the purpose (IMO) of SEOs - to control market prices without government intervention (or subsidy).

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/juha/7143 - an article on the PFC, can't remember where I first heard about it.

Another thing that could work is being able to have more than one car registered on a set of plates, and making it easier to change the plates over. That way, you can only have on car on the road at a time.