I believe you are looking for:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Peak

Really interested to see a teardown of this guy.

12.5mm 2.5" drives?

and waiting for DisplayPort audio to be enabled.

I know this wasn't the point of your post but, It sounds like you could use a better bike. (Sorry, I'm a cyclist, and I used to work in a bike shop.)

Seriously tho, your bike shouldn't shake AT ALL, coming down a hill at 39mph. It should be rock solid. Seriously, you're worrying me about your safety. And it sounds like you commute everyday on your bike, so it might be worth the investment.

You're right, you don't need to spend a lot of money to reduce weight. It's most definitely overrated, but seriously, try out a low end hybrid of any of the big bike makers (Trek, Specialized, Giant), I think you'll be surprised how much better the ride is.

anyhow, 45mph isn't stupid. It's fun. I've hit that a bunch of times. :)

oh, also, one last thing, you probably thumb your nose at people that have clipless pedals and shoes, but they do make a world of difference in your cycling efficiency. sneaker's soles tend to fold in half, whereas real cycling shoes have very stiff soles, and allow you to transfer power directly into the pedal. And believe it or not, clipless pedals are actually safer than the pedal cages, because you can actually get out of clipless pedals in an emergency. Cages are only useful if you tie them down really tight on your shoes, but then you can't get out of them anymore.

interesting. I didn't know that. Plus you wouldn't have to buy the stupid software updates. :)

Dude. Someone _died_ here. Where's your compassion?

GP, I'm sorry for you and your friend's loss. I hope you and your friend are doing alright. I'm glad that some good (you reconnecting with old friends) came out of all this.

my best,
-don

Um. keyboard layouts are not entirely done in software. There's a big hardware component sitting right in front of you right now. That's right. YOUR KEYBOARD.

and guess what, the instant any child sits down at any computer, he/she is exposed to QWERTY! Good Luck trying to circumvent that one.

the phone pad as a keyboard was used because people were forced into it. There was no other way to do it and text words at the same time unless thru the number pad. That was the phone pad's killer feature - it was with you all the time and that's why people bothered to learn it.

DVORAK has no such killer feature. It might be 50%, 100% more comfortable, but it's not an obvious advantage, enough for regular people to throw away their keyboards and get DVORAK keyboards.

You may think it's pretty low energy to carry around USB sticks, or for people to learn a totally foreign key layout that's not even in front of them. Just like geeks thought it wasn't that much energy for people to download Netscape instead of using the default IE on windows. See how that worked out.

Being somewhat serious here, there will be no keyboard layout war. QWERTY has won the day as the defacto standard. I know there are a few people who will cling to claims of DVORAK being better/faster and they may be right, but the energy/economics/brainshare required to overcome QWERTY as a standard is enormous, and it won't happen.

I think there's more chance of the US changing to the metric system than DVORAK seriously contending against QWERTY.

Good point. I wonder then... if anyone can think of a sport/competition where missing limbs/parts would be considered advantageous?

I"m sure there must be, but can't think of anything right now...

Would they be allowed to compete?

The EVERYONE ELSE class that you talk about _is_ protected. The guy with the prosthetic carbon fiber legs wasn't allowed to compete in the men's sprint events...

It's funny that you actually believe Apple's marketing to be the truth. Wake up, Apple is a for profit company that will protect it's interests. You're naive to think otherwise.

oh instead of complaining about, go install something else on your computer. Sheesh.

If you were talking about the 13" unibody Macbook that was availible up until a week ago, then it was the EXACT same machine as the Mac Mini.

Even, now, the macbook and the mini are both relatively the same machine (minor diffs in memory, hd proc speed) But I doubt that there's anything a "power" user can do on a Macbook, that they can't on a Mini, at about 10-15% slower speed.

kissing your wife is simple, harmless, and costless TO ME.
kissing your wife is NOT harmless, and costless TO YOU.

borrowing a friend's laptop is simple, harmless, and costless TO YOU.
borrowing a friend's laptop is NOT harmless or costless TO AUTHOR.

connection yet? :P

Let me kiss your wife. It's a simple, harmless, and costless request.