Even when the odds are 1 in 11 million + units? You have a greater chance of winning a lottery than you do of getting burned by your iPod. For that matter, at least one of those cases was due to the user sitting down with the thing in their pants pocket. I can't tell you how many Nintendo Gameboys I had to repair with broken screens because the kids sat on them or stuffed them in their front pants pocket. You try sitting down with something about the size of your hand in your pocket; it's going to flex, and flexing is likely to bend the battery or some other component.

I mean, really! Out of over 175 Million units sold, only 15 had an overheating problem? That's more reliable than even the Model T!

One piece of logic disrupts the idea that Mercury would have a solid core... It's proximity to the sun gives it a surface temperature hot enough to melt some metals. Granted, the opposite side of Mercury is also the coldest place in the Solar System (due to the planet's lack of atmosphere and equal lack of rotation.) This could, conceivably imply a solid core. However, just like boiling water, if you heat one side and leave the other side cold, you create a thermodynamic flow which could generate a magnetic field even without an orbiting moon to create the tidal current in that core.

But does it defy possibility? While I don't propose that he is correct, who is to say that there isn't some being vastly more intelligent and powerful than us who could do exactly that?

Then again, I knew a Baptist minister who clearly said, "God is no fool. He wouldn't have put all his eggs in one basket." Well, Earth is a single basket. Just because we haven't heard from our brothers and sisters on other worlds, doesn't mean they can't exist.

I must disagree with your assertation. While we do know how gravity behaves and can model it, we can NOT produce it as yet. Electricity and magnetic fields, however, we can model and produce. While we may not yet be able to test the reported theory on a macro scale, I don't see this theory providing reliable results in a laboratory; its a case that the experimental sample is simply too small to produce measurable results. On the other hand, Nikola Tesla firmly believed that wireless transmission of electricity for power purposes (as compared to communications) is not only possible, but feasible. Could this concept be a confirmation of Tesla's theories?

If you do some non-wiki research, you will find out that Earth's magnetic field has reversed many times over the eons. We're overdue now by several thousand years. This Global Warming may be just another indicator that such a change is imminent.

Wait for them to forget to renew. I snagged one exactly that way and didn't have to wait very long.

The first thing I do in the morning is open 95 bookmarks simultaneously. Can't do that without tabs.

First off, the writer of the article emphasized that he matched all four computers as closely as he could in hardware and capabilities, with the Sony unable to match the base Macbook Pro. Even so, he demonstrated that if you remove the discounts, the Macbook Pro was less expensive than three of the four PCs he matched it to. This means that at the workstation level, the Mac is less expensive than the competition.

Your argument that the low end Macs being much more expensive than the low end PCs is correct, IF you discount that the lowest end Macs carry far more capability than the lowest end PCs. Again, if you actually matched feature for feature (and not JUST Processor, Hard Drive and RAM,) the Mac again comes out at very nearly the same price as the equivalent PC. The only place the PC comes out effectively cheaper is when you drop most of the capabilities that make a Mac what it is!