Just cut off your fingertip...it's about the same thing.

If you don't use all the tools available to you, then you fail as a network administrator.

Disk drives act like gyroscopes, however smaller drives can stop faster and have less rotational momentum at the same RPM.
Flash is shock sensitive too. I've ruined USB flash sticks by dropping them. I hate moving parts too, but I think it's possible to make a mechanical drive less shock sensitive then flash with the proper safety features. Your experience with standard drives isn't really relevant to these new mobile drives because they are very different physically.

I say give them a chance and we will see how they perform.

I doubt it....He's too busy chasing ManBearPig.

Al Gore is going to look like a fool if this is true.

New slashdot poll.
How many hours did you spent researching candidates?
1. 0. I don't vote.
2. 0. I just vote along party lines.
3...5 The rest of the options are probably statistically insignificant anyway so I won't even put them.

I hate breathing in second hand antifreeze too. Good thing most people smoke Propylene Glycol.

They all speak English because they've been watching all our old shows that have been beamed into space for decades.

The government licenses every nuclear power plant. If the power company doesn't have a decommissioning fund then blame the government for not effectively regulating them.

Especially since it will likely be supplementary to a standard smart phone. I still need my large screen to browse the internet. I want a smart watch with an unfolding screen. Unfortunately a watch is difficult to use with thumbs, si it also needs to be detachable.

Unfortunately the CEC specification was poorly written in HDMI 1.4. Besides some standard buttons most of the CEC commands were mostly defined by the manufacturer.

Personally, I've had trouble with CEC with a Yamaha receiver coupled with a Samsung TV. Whenever the TV turned on it switched the receiver into Audio Return Channel mode, which was incorrect because it was on the HDMI/cable input. ARC should have been disabled until going into the smart tv mode. I ended up using a TOSLink cable, turning of CEC and switching the inputs manually on the receiver. Interoperability needs to be improved between manufacturers.

The 1.4 specification doesn't define the CEC commands well enough. With advanced features like ARC, it's even more important to define proper behavior.
Supposedly this is better in HDMI 2.0, but we will see how the actual implementation compares.