The Windows version of Flash craps out unicorns compared to the Mac version.

Have you ever used Flash on the Mac?

I don't dispute that at all. When/if someone develops that "Bayer"-type process for nanotubes, they'll make a billion dollars and win a Nobel prize. Until then, fullerenes remain hype.

If you can show me a shipping product with a single nanotube transistor, I'll eat my hat. STM tips are a pretty limited market. I can't find any references to commercial buckypaper composities either.

We actually have a buckyball (C60) ion gun for use with our Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer (TOF-SIMS). As far as I know, these ion guns are the only existing commercial use for buckyballs. It isn't exactly a huge market.

Fullerenes have been around for nearly 25 years now. It they had anything more than hype, they'd be commercialized by now. I'm not saying it isn't possible, but none of the press releases I've ever read about fullerenes has lead to anything more than another press release.

I got the MCE Optibay and replaced my optical drive with an SSD, which I now boot from. I still have my 500GB hard drive for large amounts of data, but for most routine work, the SSD really flies. I've yet to need my optical drive since I did it.

At $129, the Optibay is kind of pricy for what you get, but they're throwing in an external enclosure for your optical drive, which helps make up for it.

I think this is probably what Apple is after. As I look at my Macbook Pro, I have the following connectors: MagSave (power), Ethernet, FW800, miniDP, USBx2, SD card, line-in, and headphones. You could probably get rid of Ethernet, FW, miniDP, and USB and replace them with Light Peak. Since I'm rarely using more than two of those at a time, you could probably reduce the number of ports and start shrinking devices.

The other thing that Apple seems to be targeting is the optical drive. I think you're going to see Apple dropping optical altogether, and moving OS delivery to SD cards. Most other software/media will be downloads.

Shiira is WebKit based, which means it is the same basis as Safari and Chrome. If Shiira is faster than Safari, it is probably using a more recent WebKit build than the currently shipping Safari. You can also get Safari with leading-edge daily builds of WebKit from http://webkit.org/. When WebKit introduced the Squirrelfish and then Squirrelfish Extreme Javascript engines, they were available in the WebKit daily builds first.

If nothing else, WebKit has really pushed standards compliance and speed.

In iTunes Preferences: Go to "Advanced". Uncheck "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library". iTunes will leave your files where they are and just index them.

Personally I like the way iTunes organizes my music and keeps the actual files out of my way, but YMMV.

Actually, the NTSB should be involved in this investigation. I think you can get up to 5 organizations joining to investigate a crash.
1) Country of Origin (Brazil)
2) Country of Destination (France)
3) Country of Carrier (France)
4) Country of Airframe Manufacturer (France/Germany/EU)
5) Country of Engine Manufacturer (US)

Notice that #5 was US. The engines on the plane in question were GE.

No, they said the polycarbonate they used for a blast shelter was "basically bulletproof", which they later showed is an exaggeration.

OTOH, for what they were using it for, their polycarbonate blast shield was perfectly safe. It wouldn't stop a bullet, but it would stop any number of much slower moving objects.