I thought it was a common sense that any physical, mental or biological (food) stress can lead to DNA damage and wear out.

Bullshit feature or not, it is another cherry on Oracle's fooled execs' lunch pie.

Android is an open system, you can remove any app on the system you want, it is just not so obvious for beginners.

4 appstores to have is better then 1 restricted appstore, and secondly some well known firewall is probably better then no firewall at all.

>> So Apple will definitely win.

Really? According to the claimed "ornamental desing" by Apple, this Kubrik's device is closer to the patent design due to slimmer bezel, the Apple'e own iPad has a huge thick bezel, very unlike the pictured one in the patent design. And what they claim is just and only the shape of the device, any fuctionality is not even mentioned.

Actually it's "London to New York" intercontinental continuous rail. I know, this is crazy, but theoretically possible. They are showing this especially in one of those pictures on that website.

The map of the rail on Inhabitats' website:
http://inhabitat.com/russia-green-lights-65-billion-siberia-alaska-rail-and-tunnel-to-bridge-the-bering-strait/siberian-alaska-railway-2/

Both sticks located down is a Playstation thing.. you are right that the inversed placement with stick above the pad and buttons might have been better, but that would be kind like on Xbox.

probably the most important spec. for me

Amazon does collect sales taxes around the world, because they are mandatory in most countries (all EU for example), so they pay those taxes pretty much everywhere, but of course, there is one glaring exception -- the USA.

These executives should realize that not everything is measured by profit margins, HP is a public company and PC division is a very important western PC maker. In the upcoming digital economy and computer based world we in the west would like to use western made computers to avoid hardware level spyware and other malignancies of squarely China made computers, HP plays an important role here. IBM already lost it, to our dismay, this is another western failure in the making.

Yeah, erase all those years of RD, manufacturing know-how, engineering skills and general success in the PC scene. This is testament of utter executive disconnection, incompetence if not plain betrayal of the company, employees, HP's shareholders and loyal customers. Probably realising he can't compete with Steve Jobs, he cowardly axes the entire division so he doesn't need to personally deal with Apple's dominance and leadership.

Apple really did 'save', but their own ass. We all remember iOS (iPhone OS at the time) with the web apps only, these were limited and terrible. Then the moment came when Jobs&Co. decided to release the real native SDK for iOS.. and from that point forward the iOS went batman.

Managed code has been the single biggest disaster at least where I work, stalls, huge memory consumption, unpredictable.. the dreaded 'garbage collection', I am glad we are out of it.. and if you fear crashes then you could use C++ exceptions, then you can divide by zero or do other bad stuff and never experience a hard crash... or even better, use the complete threaded sandbox (see Chromium sandbox). that means C++ is totally safe and the fastest at the same time - best of both worlds; that is why C++ is used internally by Google, Ebay, Oracle.. etc.

Doomsdayers are having a field day with this, look at this line (from the article) that really made me laugh.

I've heard about three days of darkness because of Comet Elenin. Will Elenin block out the Sun for three days?

he jumped for a golden rope without looking down to see how far he'd fall if he missed

yeah, so he falls... and faces that shitty middle-class life; what a downer. meanwhile he could gave a little fight for that 10 billion dollars that might actually be his.