To clarify:

The books that existed before Hypertext came along were the way they were because of the medium. Books are linear, searching is a PITA, pictures were expensive and static..

HTML and related technologies changed that. Many forms of delivering literature have flourished - youtube.com, 4chan.org and bbcnews.com spring to mind of examples of completely different formats of delivering content that can include story-telling, education and much more.

There's more literature out there than there ever has been before, and a lot of it is hypertext. Is all of it good, or high quality, or of lasting value? Of course not. But then there's plenty of dross printed on dead tree too.

I haven't read TFA, but if the summary is anything like right, then they are dead wrong. From very recently,

http://www.apple.com/education/ibooks-textbooks/
http://www.pottermore.com/

And more people are reading more than ever before using hypertext - fiction, fact, opinion - every kind of literature you can think of. I think it's called the web, or something.

He's right. This is what I do - I can't be arsed to walk to the nearest scanner at work anymore, as a simple shot of my iPhone takes a good-enough picture of a side of paper.

Show me.

Maybe to get that beautiful video of the awesome view of the Earth from so high it was curved? And the cool way the balloon got so big it almost looked like a straight line on the video and then popped - also cool. Or to put it another way, why the fuck not?

A good question. I ran the numbers, and the answer is FUCKING quickly.

As someone else has already pointed out, it is not a competitor to USB.

As to the RAID box, well, something has to be first. But there are already three others I'm aware of:

There is already also a Sony laptop with a Thunderbolt connector to docking station which has an optical drive, a graphics chip, *and* USB 2.0 and 3.0 sockets. The newer Apple monitors, as well as the new iMacs, use it for USB and DisplayPort. The laptops with it can use a powered-down iMac as a monitor. You can't do a lot of that with USB.

As usual with technologies like this, as soon as it's integrated into chipsets and/or standard motherboards, the products will follow. Just the fact that Apple are selling hundreds of thousands of units with this integrated will help stimulate companies to produce more products that use it...

I wish that was true - but unless I'm being misled, these drivers already don't support my 2-year-old card or the generation after it. Is there anything concrete to give me hope this will change, and the 6000 series they're now making great steps forward with will be supported for more than 10 minutes after the 7000 series is released?

Wise words. Al-Jazeera is broadcast here along with 4 or 5 other 24-hour news channels, and it is very good. Their live web stream works well too without any silly restrictions, unlike most of the others.

Take a breath, man, Jesus.

I am not an american, I don't support either of your two parties. I made no comment on Obama, or any of the other news outlets. None are perfect, and I didn't say any were. However, in my eyes, what thankfully little I see of Fox News is the worst example of biased shrill fearmongering bullshit which twists facts, ignores common sense, and generates maximum anger, fear and hate - and leads to rants like yours, which so beautifully illustrates the problems that are making the US political system so badly uncompromising, reactive and broken.

Whether you agree with Fox's agenda (and you cannot realistically deny they have one) or not, the fact is they fucked up on a matter of IT security here, and it takes down a peg or two, and I think that's a good thing, are enjoying it. I could hope that they might start to take themselves a little less seriously, but it's a little to much to ask.

It's sad, but what you said rings more true than anything that so-called news organisation comes out with....

Funny comment, but seriously, has any constitutional discussion ever involved (potentially) 2/3rds of the population before? OK, there are referendums to approve a new constitution or not, but to involve 2/3rds of the people in that discussion is *way* more than any other I'm aware of. Or to put it another way, why would you exclude a communication forum that 2/3rds of your population have access to?

Oh, and as the comment you replied to said, it's "most" of the discussion - not all of it.

All solid advice - but make sure when you get a fixed IP address it's not part of a residential block of IP addresses, or you will still be on the blocked lists.
I fell foul of this last year, we had to switch our broadband to a 'business' account to get a clean IP address.

Also, the Messagelabs service is excellent, and surprisingly cheap, and removes the problem you have - recipients see emails arriving from trusted Messagelabs whatever your connection looks like. They also periodically check your email server and make recommendations.

One device and one OS? Apple insists you need at least two of each, one for your pocket and another to activate and manage the first...