I've been thinking about it since my son was born, and I think a lot of these things they're saying are true (for me at least). Originally, I had planned to get an sgs3 when I returned to the States, but now I'm thinking I'll probably buy something more like an older nokia bar phone, and in fact newegg has one for about $30 (with built-in flashlight?!?).That coupled with no need (or ability) to use data on a prepaid plan probably means I'll end up saving tons of otherwise doubly wasteful cash, since I would be spending it on something that would just waste more time. If I keep it long enough, then it's that much better for the environment as well. Yes, I'm that guy.

pr0n addicts are really talking about Jesus?

Searching for 'thong' won't turn up a bunch of photos of some geeky asian dude!

Then why is it so funny?

It was actually a beta of Ubuntu 12.10, and I hear he actually flolloped when he saw the amazon search results in the dash

Exactly my sentiment. This guys computer gets wiped and he compares his situation to a senator being shot in the head. To (almost) quote Lewis Black:

It is my firm belief that if you are [a senator], you absolutely have to know where you are in the time-space continuum

But in this case, that'll only happen when hell^h^h^h^hNevada freezes over.

If I can save $10 shopping at Walmart for half an hour, then I should be able to save $140 in 7 hours! Electric cars really do save money!

Even with better batteries, generating electricity is something that still needs to be handled. The advantage of this sort of technology is that it theoretically should be grid-independent, so even in the middle of the desert (Arizona or Nevada, take your pick), you can still top 'er off. This is the sort of modular power generation that can't be accomplished with things like coal or nuclear power, though I do wonder what kind of footprint it would have and whether or not units could feasibly be placed in metropolitan areas.

Additionally, you have to remember that not all scientists are good at everything science, some people are better with power production, others are better with power retention, although I would tend to agree that the latter seem to be far fewer than the former.

I always thought zero squared was infinity? If zero is nothing, and I have no nothings, I have everything, right?

will they start using some new battery technology to make this actually significant?

PS To those who are saying electric vehicles have already lost, you're not thinking longterm enough. They will (have) work(ed) by the time the sun burns out.

I just don't get it. Here, we have one of the richest companies in the world suing another over an issue of their products being similar. What. crap. The only innovation either side has really come up with is creative new uses for lawyers and patent/trade dress laws, and lets face it, those innovations are not really serving to advance society in any way (I'm sure lawyers would argue differently, but I'm not gonna pay them to and if you don't either, they probably won't say anything). Do we have any idea what kind of money is going into this trial, not even considering the payments that come after the verdict, if they ever come at all.

{rant}There are thousands of ways they could have spent this money better, but I guess this is the only one that keeps the money (for the most part) within the US economy. Isn't this the sort of thing that drives (college) kids away from the sciences? Isn't that more or less the reason we're seeing dropping rates in science majors? How much of our economy is based on practicing law and how much of it is based on practicing science? {/rant}

Ok, seriously, do we need to see more articles about this farce? Are we not nearing the end of an election cycle? There must be something more worthy of our attention that how many billions one billionaire owes to another?

Since when is anthropomorphizing a piece of software named for a ficticious form of fauna insulting?

Any programmer worth their salt can count to at least 31 on one hand, and 1023 on two hands.

Exactly. In my (relatively limited) experience, Intel's wireless chipsets work much better with Linux than other manufacturer's, and though I could be wrong, I'm pretty sure it's because they actually develop their Linux drivers alongside their Windows drivers. If they changed this policy, then I seriously fret for the state of wireless support in Linux. I, too, sincerely hope it's someone's fuckup.