Google is following Apple and Microsoft and moving away from widescreen tablets. Good riddance, I say; 4:3 or 3:2 is much better for showing a 'page' of information.

That said, I don't begrudge widescreen (tallscreen?) phones, since they have to be narrow enough to fit in your pocket, nor large widescreen monitors, since they can show multiple 'pages' at once. In the 7-13" range, though, widescreens tend to be too much for one 'page' of content but not enough for two, and not nearly tall enough either. Blech.

It is a fake. A very bad, undeniable, fake.

Say the satellite is orbiting at 200km. The planes are flying at 10km. (I'm being generous on both these figures.) The planes are only 5% closer to the satellite than the ground, so perspective would only make the aircraft look 5% larger (barely enough to notice) than they would on the ground.

Now look at the satellite photo again. Compare the fighter to the roads and farm plots it's flying over, and compare the 777 to the terrain features and especially the airport (I think) on the left side of the photo.

(If you're curious, the fighter in real life has a 15m wingspan, the Boeing a 60m wingspan.)

So these don't count?

Yes, Captain?

One is a point of sale peripheral, the other is a Linux desktop environment. Okay, they're both 'technology', but that category is huge and getting broader every year. In any case, neither product is widely known, it's highly unlikely anyone would confuse one with the other, or that it would hurt either brand if they did. The case for trademark infringement is practically nonexistent.

That said, I'm glad Groupon is changing it; the Gnome has rubbed me the wrong way ever since it was announced. The name isn't reassuring on a device meant for handling financial transactions, the early prototypes were a bit too 'friendly' and OLPC-inspired, the current one is huge and clunky, and it lacks support for newer technologies like EMV and NFC. Hopefully this will send them back to the drawing board. Thanks, nerd rage! You saved the day again.

http://www.applerecords.com/ (yes, I chose that one ironically)
http://boardgamegeek.com/board...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
http://www.thepalm.com/
http://www.niagaraparksgolf.co...

...okay, you win on Whole Foods.

The GNOME foundation invented the word—nay, the letters themselves, carved and finished from wordstone hewn from the deep tunnels of the earth.

Say what you will about the guy, but he didn't exactly swear a blood-oath there.

What?

Did you even read the summary?

Fascinating. More evidence that my universe intersects an alternate universe in which Apple invented everything.

You *do* pay your state use tax for all those things you order over the Internet, right?

Then again, I'd have less sympathy for them if avoiding paying taxes wasn't a universal pastime for corporations and individuals alike.

Nobody wants hot water in the summer?

But security, reliability, and other factors seem to defeat any advantages. I wonder who their customers will be.

You don't want... this is a question...well, it's like a horror movie when a character is standing in a dark room, hears a scary noise, and asks "Who's there?". It's one of those type of questions.