Riiiiiiight. And the people who shot a 14 year-old girl in the face for the terrible crime of learning to read are simply misunderstood freedom fighters.

Seriously, I'll have a rational conversation with you. First, just declare Malala's shooters as "savage, murderous terrorists whose actions I completely 100% condemn" (just cut-and-paste) and I promise to have a civil and respectful conversation with you. Spin it in any way other than a cut-and-paste and I think we all know who we're dealing with here.

I await your decision...

I love the technology behind the Kinect, but I honestly loved any games. They need to allow accessories with the next Kinect. How awesome would it be to have a gun and duck, cover, jump, hide behind your couch and shoot? And making a "finger gun" just isn't the same, no matter how accurate the system is.

Agreed. Sometimes there are exceptions, but usually I only want to see a movie in the theatre if I can't get the same experience at home. Similarly, I only play an arcade machine if I can't get the experience at home (punching bag, prize tickets, etc)

Then this is mostly mid-80s to mid 90s technology. Seems like an awesome collection, but... a million dollars!?!? Seems like a lot cooler ways to nerd out for that kind of dough...

If I can't measure it well enough to copy it, I can't measure it well enough to verify it, either. And if the verification is fuzzy, then I just need to copy it well enough to pass the verification. Which is always step 1 in the counterfeiting handbook.

Actually, now that I see it in writing, adoption is ok for the cause. Sorta like Adopt-a-Highway or Adopt-a-Whale. It's support, now ownership.

Now, to be clear - it's "Name a Star" crap that they sell on the radio near Valentine's Day that I hate. And they'll even put it into an "International Registry!"

as well as through the non-profit Pale Blue Dot project.

Ugh. I simply cannot stand star "adoption."

I think El Paso would go to Mexico or New Mexico, in case of a subdivision. No reason at all to keep it in Texas, and, other than the easy route through the mountains (it's called "el paso" for a reason), no reason to keep it in America. It's really East Juarez.

They do understand that if Apple wanted to, Apple could run iOS on Intel chips, right?

It sounds like Apple has told them they won't do that, and Intel is trying to change their minds by mounting a seemingly concerted competitive effort.

At the least, Intel's new chips, which have surprised even ARM's CEO with their speed and economy, are going to make Intel rich yet again.

The question is whether Apple wants to be in full-frontal competition with them, or do what it did with the PowerPC/x86 decision and go with the one that has taken the technological lead.

That doesn't take balls. It takes brains. Kinda the point.

It probably takes as much energy to distill petroleum as it does to distill alcohol.

When you distill alcohol, you get a little alcohol in one tank and a lot of of water in another.

You can sell the alcohol for the price of gasoline, but you're dumping the water in most places.

But when you distill petroleum, you get gasoline in one tank and jet fuel in another tank and motor oil in another tank and axle grease in another tank and road tar in another tank and candle wax in another tank...

And you can sell all of those, some for more than the price of gasoline.

Depends on the car and whether you run AC in the summer.