About seven years. That's the almost clock-work timing of supercomputer to laptop, desktop should be a bit sooner.

I don't particularly agree with Apple's stance, but your argument actually points out some reasons why it may be valid.

"To make money, you must design, market, and sell a product that the consumer..."

"In fact, every company in existence should just quit conducting market research, stop paying for focus groups..."

What Apple is saying, right or wrong, is that Samsung in fact failed to design and market a product that would be successful, they failed in their market research, failed in using focus groups and instead saw that Apple was successful and copied their design. Especially telling that they changed their design to match the iPads before their product release as Apple's success was more important to their design decisions then their own research and design.

"If you think high taxes on the Rich is apart of the solution, take a look at NY State, they did this and the rich have either left or are in the process of leaving and lowering NY's revenue generation." is factually incorrect.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/04/29/135813061/studies-rich-dont-flee-high-tax-states

Granddad just called floating point precision bugs thieves and had them flogged. Same bugs, more entertaining.

I remember back when granddad had a computer. He'd add up all the coins and do the math required for the accounting for the business. Then silly technology came along and now we have "calculators" and "computers". What happened to the real faces behind these jobs?! How many people are out of work that have the skills to do long division -JUST LIKE A COMPUTER-! It's a terrible thing and we should at once do away with progress. It's far too damaging to the economy.

Wasn't there some studies that showed that the type of carbon from Corn could be traced through the food chain? Wouldn't that make HFCS different in the isotope of Carbon provided to "natural" sources of sugar?

Swear to god, not trolling. Actually curious if this is the case.

You must be a real downer at the zoo.

There is value but if you don't use the items that have value, then for you, no.

I just use a few things in jailbreak... If these sound interesting, then there is value for you.

1) Replacement SMS app - Let's you do things like reply from the SMS notification instead of having to unlock your phone, open the messaging app, and then send on.
2) Tethering and Hot Spotting - Let me and others use my phone as a mobile access point.
3) Auto3g - Disables 3g when the phone is locked so it uses far less battery power. Doubles battery life for me.
4) Lockscreen replacement - Makes my lock screen have calendar information. It also does stuff like remind me if I haven't acknowledged an event and sets quiet hours for SMS and stuff like that.
5) Application Backups - If you have to restore your phone, all your saved games and information on the phone is gone.
6) SMS export - Let's me archive and delete my SMS messages.
7) Unlock - Useful when traveling abroad.
8) Notification Replacement - Gives me Growl (the program) like notifications.
9) SBSettings - Which is free, is just nice to be able to turn certain things off and on with a quick swipe. Also, fixes the status bar to have things like the date.

If there is no value in these things for you, then no, don't jailbreak your phone.

Calibre + the Economist online full subscription feed works quite well. Just an FYI if you have a Kindle. The iPad Economist App is solid as well.

This is the most amazing reply I think I've seen on slashdot. What doesn't it have?! Trolling? Flaming? Irrationality? Presumptions? Arrogance? Everything!

I think we may have a winner here, guys.

Weren't all the answers in the library? That's how I got through all the puzzles.

Probably more correctly, iphone users use apps and not mobile safari for a lot of normal web tasks. Movies, News, Social Networking, Media, Navagation... these are all done by apps.

Actually, it's not even copyright violation. You can't copyright a game, only it's art/text/etc. See Monopoly/Scrabble.

*glances at my popbox*

*sighs*

From your link, their reasoning is flawed, as I've seen elsewhere. For instance, "For the US, the recently revised NASA GISS Annual Mean temperatures show 6 of the 10 warmest years were from the 1920s to the 1950s and only 4 since 1990."

That means nothing. Global Warming means GLOBAL Warming. The US is allowed to have higher temps from time to time. If you look at the GLOBAL trend, it is getting hotter.