Who cares about gears? As far as I can see this isn't a one molecule motor unless you exclude the "copper surface". If you're allowed to ignore half of the motor assembly then all brushless electric motors in fact have only one part, the rotor. A true one-molecule motor would have to work as both rotor and stator which is a nonsensical concept. I know the person who made up the title was trying to be exciting, but it's so wrong as to be idiotic.

*slap*

The radius of the rounding on the tabs is hideous and looks nothing like any native control on any platform, I also hate this new fashion of placing the close, minimize and zoom buttons at some random pixel offset.

This design would work just as well with native looking widgets and button placement and wouldn't invoke the "uncanny valley" effect of being almost correctly placed. Why not just put the buttons in the middle of the web page and make the tabs floating round circles that you navigate between by waving your arms if you're going to ignore platform conventions so flagrantly.

Firefox isn't my platform, I have an OS platform that has already established conventions on how things should look and where they should be placed. Until recently Firefox seemed to finallly be moving in the direction of being a good citizen on it's supported platforms, now this...

Funny, I thought I was just buying a portable Unix machine.
Perhaps you could define this "lifestyle" you speak of?
do Linux and Windows also have "lifestyles"?
If so, how exactly do they differ from each other?

You take advantage of Moore's law and upgrade to a current model. :)

Human suicide is a tragedy, computer suicide is an opportunity.

Microsoft's attempt to embrace and extend Java failed because legally speaking they did what cheap T-Shirt makers do, made an inferior fake product and stamped a brand on it that they had no legal right to use. It's got nothing to do with this case which is about software patents.

On the one hand you have Sun suing Microsoft because they're not happy about them branding something that is clearly not Java with Sun's trademarks, violating the licensing for the latter.

On the other hand you have Oracle suing Google because their VM works too much like Java to not have some Java DNA inside it, much like what happened with Linux and SCO not that long ago.

I was pretty annoyed by the way that faceless evil corporations are polluting the world while everyone else is trying to clean it up, when the reality is that the pollution exists because of the rampant consumerism that people love so much (myself included).

"It's not me, it's the other end of the supply chain"

It doesn't have to go boom to be really, really bad. Just poof!

Inhaled plutonium has a habit of causing lung cancers, plutonium laced ash settling on food crops or preparation surfaces can cause gut cancers, and then there's plutonium's nasty habit of accumulating in bone marrow, so if there is anything containing plutonium that can burn or boil it could cause some pretty toxic fallout.

We can take comfort in the fact that the waste in question is being stored outside, above ground, in tents; which suggests that it's probably not very likely that any highly radioactive waste is at risk -tents not being renowned for their security or radiological enclosure qualities.

Someone's been getting stoned and watching Captain Planet again...

It's 2011, the vast majority of people don't use computers with 4 colors and 40 column screens anymore, and they want to do more than just look at Geocities pages full of static text and pictures. If some small percentage of people want to continue to use absurdly outdated equipment, that's fine - but the rest of us aren't going to turn the web into Gopher just for the insane techno-hoarders out there.

Don't get me wrong, I loves me my computer history. I just don't expect to keep using museum pieces in the modern world. I'd love to keep using my various G4 and G5 Macs, but the world is moving on.

I feel that the continued use of abandoned and heavily-exploited software is the internet equivalent of toxic waste. Using software that vulnerable on the internet seems to me to be irresponsible. I realize I'm an elitist snob, but I really hate botnets.

Firefox 4 still runs fine in Windows 2000, I find it hard to have any sympathy for people who refuse to upgrade hardware that can only run Windows 98/ME.

I'm guessing Microsoft are probably somewhat involved in the patents they generated. I could be wrong of course, but the typical reason for asserting patents is that you are the owner of them and you feel that someone else is infringing them

...the evil american empire forcing us to buy their evill garbage computer OSes that funnel money back into the evil american economy of evil... blah blah

The fuck? The first word processor on Mac OS was Microsoft Word. You can still open its files in modern Word.

Yes, and so many of their competitors were DRM free... oh wait.

When did they start doing that? I have yet to see a device bricked by Apple, for jailbreaking or anything else.

In app payments and subscriptions were completely disallowed before.

Huh?

It's their walled-garden, you don't have to play there.

I agree restricting syncing to iDevices and making some iTunes content inaccessible on other devices is a foolish move that probably costs Apple money in the long run. I can't agree that Apple should be obligated to allow third party app stores access to their customers, it'd be a hotbed of piracy and malware.

Huh? Apple have been extremely tolerant of people hacking and pirating their OS. I've only seen them go after people trying to profit by making counterfeit Macs.

And yet, here you were advocating third-party app stores above...

They started behaving like they used to primarily with the return of Steve Jobs, he ended licensing of Mac OS, and killed the Newton project which would have given Sharp and Fujitsu access to another Apple developed OS. Whether that was a mistake is a matter of opinion, but the way I see it they are now one of the most valuable companies on earth primarily because they chose to keep their business vertical instead of trying to be a smaller less-profitable Microsoft with a commodity OS that runs on commodity hardware.

As far as Microsoft being an underdog and a good-guy, they have changed a lot from the Microsoft of the 1990's and deserve praise for that (Yay Microsoft!). Being the underdog in the mobile world has forced them to re-evaluate their mobile OS strategy and come back to us with something a bit more consumer friendly than Windows CE with a telephony stack, something that just happens to share a lot with the iPhone with it's touch interface, limited multitasking, closed app store and tight controls over the look and feel of hardware devices.

Mac desktop computers may be overpriced but their laptops are fairly competitive against other brand name laptops of similar spec, the iPhone is pricey but both the iPod touch and iPad are cheap enough that Apple's competitors can't match their specs with similar priced devices, though it is possible to buy junk netbooks for about the same price as the iPad, they tend to be fiddly and have short battery life in comparison.

Hey it's better than printing out each article and then setting it on fire like once he's read it, like he used to do.