But think of the children! You don't want the terrorists to get them, do you?

Is it Windows only or is there a version for Linux too?

Those are words of great wisdom. Those TV enchacement boxes are usually slow and I hate UI of most of them (badly arranged, highly embossed graphics with lots of gradients, impossible to find what you want).

After how many, 10 years?

Are you saying that Apple was right once again? That netbooks aren't really feasible market? Damn those magicians...

In other news, it is discovered that male population is ignored in fashion industry. There is great inequallity if we look at fashion where vast majority of products is aimed at female population. You just have to look around your nearest shopping center to see that most shops are centered around fashion and most of this shops target women. No shit, really? Women aren't being targete by game developers? Guess what, maybe it's because most women don't give a flying fuck about games? Just like clothes shops don't target men cause most men don't give a flying fuck about fashion.

There is always one serious flaw when talking about maximum possible Earth population. Namely, it's always assumed that all people consume the same ammount of resources. Sure things are limited, but majority of resources is consumed by minority of people (Europe, USA & East Asia). I assume that you can correlate resources usage to GDP of a region (if you have more money, you are able to buy more resources). USA's GDP is (according to wikipedia) about $15*10^12 for about 300 million people. GDP of Africa is $2*10^12 for about 1 billion people, so you have 7 times less money for three times the population. Majority of people are poor, so then large number of people doesn't necessairly say anything about resource usage. The question is, what kind of population are we talking about? There is mostly increase in poor people, not the walthy ones (I read once that poor conditions corelate naturally to large families). If you have 1 billion more people using barely anything, there is much, much difference than 1 billion more people living à la USA style. I think that there is space for many more people, but for the poor ones. The real problem is not population growth, but population getting wealthier. If all of China grew up in standard up to Europe it would cause much bigger resource shortage than new 5 billion starving children in Africa.

my $200 laptop can beat your $20.000 car's onboard computer. Err, what?

Not anymore. Thanks slashdot

And if it's impossible, we'll make it possible...

Sure it is, but it's a natural process which is slow and insufficient for our needs. That's why we need things like wastewater treatment plants.

Now just subtract all the non-drinkable water and you won't be left with even quarter of that. And besides, you will never need as much water on the Moon (Moon is much smaller and various ways of recycling water will be used) as on Earth so such comparison is pointless.

Of course you don't want to use it if it costs $50. But remember, that dvds and blu-rays weren't really any cheaper in the beginning. Just hold on till the price hits $1.

Especially if you put 'need' between 'I' & '2' [:

Couldn't sum it up in any better way.