I guess this isn't entirely surprising considering that "Yeti" fur has been identified as coming from the Tibertan blue bear as well. It is very interesting how closely and recently related the brown bear is to the polar bear, though, and to these mountain dwelling species as well. I did not know that. The Tibetan Blue Bear has only been rarely sighted since it was documented in the 1850s. It's not out of the question that there are other, non-classified bear relatives in the high mountains.

The Tibetan sand fox and other fox species contribute to the Yeti legend as well. They occasionally make human-like cries. Snow leopards do to. I've heard a snow leopard cry at a the Central Park Zoo; it sounded like a child shrieking only much louder and more piercing. If you heard one of these animal species during a blizzard, especially combined with certain related optical phenomena (or actually seeing a sub-species/relative of brown bear), you could get the strong impression that there was another person out there. Or something like a person but definitely not. You certainly wouldn't find a person after it had been snowing, the animal having moved on, burrowed, or appearing only as an animal.

My view's - not my employer's. I wonder when Microsoft will take a stance on the Yeti question...

Hoenn Confirmed!

Is this for all the Pokémon fans who want to run X and Y at the same time? I know I was thinking about buying a second Gameboy for when X and Y hit so I could self-trade and "catch them all". Then again, Nintendo could be trying to compete with smartphone gaming.

Sarah Sharp is not asking the LKML to change its behavior for her own benefit but rather for the benefit of the developers that use it. It seems like a totally reasonable request from a long-time kernel maintainer (and Linus treats it as such) unless you make the assumption that's she's only asking because she's a woman. I think too much of the commentary here is based on that assumption and the "corollary" that her comment means she can't "take the heat".

Disclaimer: I know Sarah Sharp professionally. These are my views, not my employer's (I just started as MS a few months ago).

Everyone is fixated on Adobe's obvious failings and not their past strengths. The only thing Adobe has done competently is make tools and content distribution tools (video hosting servers with DRM) that come with vendor lock-in. Apple want to make it's iBook SDK really good so developers use it, and difficult to port away from so consumers continue to buy iPads. Apple may also want to start pushing QuickTime again as a YouTube competitor now that YouTube is entering the paid content market. On my iDevice, I get most of my video content through YouTube and HTML5 tags, both of which are probably too available to Android devices for Apple's taste.

I made my wife a Darth Vader helmet with car ears and whiskers for Halloween. Before it was amazing because of the absurdity, now she's practically a canonical character!

Intel spends a lot of money and manpower on good will, advertising, and mind share, but sometimes their strange and ridiculous announcements (Intel Pledges 80 Core Processor in 5 Years - six years ago) turn into products (Intel To Ship Xeon Phi For "Exascale" Computing This Year) that actually get used (TACC "Stampede" Supercomputer To Go Live In January). It may just be because I was so skeptical when I first heard of the processor that eventually became "Knights", but I'm hesitant to shout "that's impossible" when they come out with these announcements now.

When I look at the surface, I see a tablet with the screen and SoC of a $400 tablet (iPad 2 or Asus Transformer Prime), bundled with software (Office instead of iWork) that costs $30 in Apple's app store. So in my mind, it should cost $430. That said, people must be ordering it, because the basic version is sold out and new orders are shipping later. Of course, Microsoft could just have thrown up that statement to attract attention. Even if they have sold many, we don't know how many. We're just going to have to wait 90 days and look at MS's financials.

AC is not quite correct. Banks are required to have currency reserves, though they can borrow overnight from the Fed in certain circumstances. It's been a long time since AP econ, I can't remember exactly how the required currency reserve and the overnight lending are related, but if I recall correctly, there's a connection.

Looks like I was wrong on one count, the basic model of the Surface has sold out and new orders are shipping later. But Microsoft doesn't think HDMI is needed on an entry level tablet, either: their HDMI adapter costs $39.99! That's actually 99 cents more than Apple's adapter, for what it's worth :-D

In my experience, consumers compare hard drive offerings based on storage. They compare tablets and computers based on entry-level price. Entry level, for what a tablet does, doesn't need USB, doesn't need SD, and doesn't need HDMI.

The iPad 2 is over a year old, yes, and its SoC still beats the pants of the Tegra 3. It still has a really good screen, battery life, weight, etc. It doesn't have worse "specs" than Surface in any way that I see except those 16 GB of storage. It doesn't need the latest features of iOS to do what a tablet does, it launched fairly complete.

I would say that people buying the iPad 2 (and not the 3) are price conscious, but saying that they must also be image conscious is a stretch too far. The iPad 2 is a really, really good tablet, there are reasons to buy it beyond image even if its competition (Asus Transformer Prime) is also really good.

If someone is in the market for a tablet that can:

• Browse the web.
• Read and send email.
• Synchronize with Exchange.
• Open and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents.
• Play movies.
• Read ebooks.

then the iPad 2 with iWork does it well at $430. I guess we'll find out if consumers think that the Surface does it so much better that it can command a price premium.

So, you're looking at the MS Surface ($500) and the iPad 3 ($500) and declaring that the Surface is $100 cheaper because it has 16 GB more storage? The "equivalent" iPad is the iPad 2, with iWork, for $430.

If what you want is a good, unlocked Linux phone, get a Galaxy Nexus. It's $349.00, it's unlocked, it runs Linux (wrapped in Android but allowing you to build your own kernels), and it's actually a good phone. If you're not in the US market, and you don't want the N9, consider the Razr i, which also has an unlocked boot loader. Me? I'm happy with my iPhone 4S, I'll just keep iOS 5, thank you very much ;-)

Bill Gates learned to program on a computer he didn't own though a terminal and look how damaged he is, from that terrible experience. Or not. The point of Raspberry Pi is not to teach children how to build computers, the point is to teach them how to use computers and development scripts, software, and websites, while giving them access to the educational and social benefits of the Internet, inexpensively. Using a binary blob doesn't diminish that.

The iPhone5 ships with an adapter in the EU: iPhone 5 Scorns Standards Promise To European Commission.