Even 0.5mm overhead projector film is pretty hard stuff, silicon gel is very low density compared to plastic films as is card. I would expect a rolled diameter to be around 25-30cm which is fine for the 167", but a bit much for the small 30" versions.

I would imagine any film above 1mm in thickness would be pretty hard to roll up into anything resembling a reasonable diameter.

It's interesting that they seem to just be going after the 10" tablets. Samsung make 7" tablets too, why did Apple not get an injunction on those too? Or is that basically they do not want anything that could compete with an Ipad be sold?

The number of nodes and processing power per node is meaningless unless they can connect them together in a similar fashion to the brain, sure they mention a "brain like" arrangement but the reason our brains are so sophisticated is not due to processing power but due to organisation. Brains are slow, really really slow but the parallelism and connectivity is beyond anything we can build at the moment and that is why we keep on failing on AI. An example is adding two numbers together, easy to do for a processor yet difficult to do using neural nets.

Would be better but would not even come close to the human brain, which in the cerebral cortex has roughly a billion synapses per cubic millimeter.

The reason this is the case is because current AI simulates a neural network as a program, you would have to produce chips which where actual neural networks the problem however is the interconnects which is in an order of magnitude more complicated compared to anything we can currently create. In fact the brain is quite slow, but its organization is what makes it powerful.

Call me stupid but how is this an invasion of privacy, it's not like information regarding your drunkenness is being passed over to the authorities.

Oh yes those evil seat belts made mandatory because they save peoples lives, damn evil big government regulating car safety . Has it come to the point where there has to be a knee-jerk reaction to everything just for the sake of it?

The components may well cost 35$, but I'm sure they excluded the price of the PCB and the machine time for mounting the components onto the PCB, thats a big chunk of money right there. Then you've got the assembly, logistics and distribution costs so that even with cheap indian labour I'm sure you'ill be much closer to 70$ than 35$.

In sort its easy for the guys in the lab to look at the BOM and say 35$, but the reality is somewhat different.

My last two Nokia phones have been an absolute disaster, the first a 6600 fold locks up if you press the 6 key, thats right you can't use the 6 key. It's a common fault and and seems like one of those bugs that is so bizzare that nokia have n't been able to fix it because it does n't affect every phone. I then made the mistake of getting a N97 Mini and I can honestly say it will be my last Nokia phone, the CPU is so under powered its like a sick joke and the phone interface is terrible.

There was a time when you knew getting a Nokia meant a quality phone, I'm sorry to say that is n't the case anymore.

You're right about mentioning tolerances because batteries need to be held tightly in place hence the spring, however the spring is also to take into account that batteries are not manufactured to tight tolerances themselves and I've personally have experienced problems in certain devices with batteries not fitting easily due to being slightly longer.

Maybe they are using some kind of foam like material instead of a spring but I just can't see how this can be as robust.

The version of Windows that made you wish your 286 was a 386 and 640KB of ram certainly was n't more than you would ever need. Fond memories of wondering where 150K of memory had disappeared to only to realise that lovely desktop background image you set sucked 15% of your free memory. I also remember if you typed fast enough MS Write could n't keep up and you would fill the input buffer, let alone running MS Word. I can n't say I'ill miss those days.

One thing I find disturbing is that even when/if Facebook backs down, it has already given away your information. For example when they decided to put what you're a "fan" of in your public profile that any web-crawler can see. Even if they backed down, I'm sure that information is now stored in a number of databases outside of Facebook and you don't have to be completely paranoid to think maybe Facebook has a hand in this.

Whilst ARM processors do have excellent MIPS/Watt the processors do have lower clock rates, smaller cache, slower/narrower buses so I do n't see these being very useful for general purpose multi user servers. However if your application is mainly I/O bound and you can do most of it via DMA they would be great. I can imagine for google they make alot of sense, however for something that runs on PHP like facebook less so.