DUH... The LHC gets fired up, and suddenly this kind of thing just randomly starts to happen? Suuuuuure.

Clearly, this was a mini black hole spawned by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and indeed they ARE harmless and just disappear after a few moments, or else we wouldn't have this little thread going on here, now would we?

Doesn't "dirtier and more complex" also tend to come with a price?

Up! is an amazing, amazing movie. What they were able to do with that movie, which as far as I'm concerned is a legitimate piece of quality cinema, is simply fabulous. And how can you not like Doug, and Kevin, and an awesome airship?!

Before that there was this little movie called WALLâE you may have heard of -- I understand it was kind of successful, and well-received...

Yeah.... I'm not too worried based on the last several flicks. They've had a few movies I wasn't as hot on, but the recent trend seems to indicate higher quality than ever before, not lower.

The difference is, the you that wakes up every day really is you (as far as we know).

However, the duplicated copy of you would NOT be you, although it would sure think it was. But you would still be dead and gone! For the dead you, there would be no continuity of consciousness. Because, again, you'd be dead.

I'm sorry, you clearly didn't get the memo. Even us crazed Apple fanboys gave up on making this argument, like, two years ago. Cell + CUDA? Personally I am more interested in Nehalem + OpenCL + Grand Central. You can keep your Cell + CUDA thank you very much.

Apple most certainly has the capital to open their own fab. With zero debt and over $25 Billion in liquid assets, they could do it. They have no reason to, but they could. However, design chips they do. They did buy P.A. Semi after all.

When I was in Japan a few months ago, I got a hell of a lot of "iPhone? Sugoi!" (cool!) in response to using my iPhone in public. The Japanese public may reject it for technical reasons (original lack of emoji support, tv, video, etc.) or pricing reasons, but "lack of cool" is not one of them, I don't think.

Little known fact: Anyone who uses the phrase "Apple Fanboy" is in fact either a Microsoft Fanboy, Linux Fanboy, Nokia Fanboy, HTC Fanboy, or Sony Fanboy.