... at least my forearms are huge.

> Why even bother printing guns when you can just...
> assemble a fully working, untraceable and unserialed AR-15?

Because then you'd wind up with an AR-15. :D

Good old joke:

Forbes says his net worth is $20 billion, so $2 billion is actually as good-sized chunk of that.

Now he's as poor as Michael Dell.

Oh ye of little faith. I bet it will be awesome for downloading Firefox. :-)

Seriously, they should just set the homepage to firefox.com.

New poll suggestion:

Fuck
- You
- Him
- Me
- Everyone
- CowboyNeal

> hatred for Wal-Mart is a tribal identification
> thing, not a rational economic argument.

There's more to economics than how much it costs you to buy things. Have you heard about how badly they pay their employees?

There are plenty of good reasons to dislike Walmart.

Wow. A 15-year climb from bankruptcy to the most valuable company in the world and people still look at every single move Apple makes and say "wow, that's fucking dumb." Isn't it just remotely possible that Tim Cook knows what the fuck he's doing, and that there's a good reason for buying Beats? How 'bout we give it a few weeks, huh? Maybe, just maybe, the guy running Apple knows something you don't, and perhaps we should give him the benefit of the doubt just this once and see how this plays out before passing judgement?

Sorry, I must be new here.

Besides: every move Apple makes doesn't have to be some earth-shaking road to an innovation unseen since the last amazing thing they did (which everyone shit all over at the time anyway.) If Apple buys Beats or Pepsi or Whirlpool or Nabisco or whoever for $3 billion and they make more than $3 billion off of that in the near future, then it was a good investment, right? Do you know what would make Beats worth $3 billion today? IF IT EARNS $5 BILLION IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. And oh, look, that's probably what will happen. (And note that Tim Cook probably has better financial info available than a year-old Fast Company article.) Maybe Tim looked at Dre's books and decided that with Apple's awesome buying power and manufacturing prowess that they could DOUBLE the profit of Beats OVERNIGHT. They might earn that money back by next Christmas.

They're called "tablets" and "tablet PCs".

What, you think handwriting recognition and voice recognition are cheap? That they're no-consequence modules that can be simply bolted on to another device that somehow, magically, doesn't impact cost, performance, battery life, or complexity of use? And that adding handwriting recognition to the e-reader app itself is easy? LOL. "Low-hanging fruit?" Hardly.

Do you REALLY think OEMs want to make yet ANOTHER class of device that fits between tablet computers and dedicated e-readers? How large do you think the market is for a device that does more than an e-reader and less than a tablet? It's already a pretty compact market space with razor-thin margins. The low-end for tablets (7"+) that aren't complete junk is about $99 and the high-end is $299. (8" iPad mini) Low-end tablet PC laptops start around there. (As will the Surface, on clearance, soon. :D ) Super-cheap tablets and dedicated e-readers go down to about $59. Don't look for another product category -- especially not one with such limited appeal -- to be squeezed into this narrow range any time soon.

Agree 100%. Also: rounded front edge so it doesn't dig into your wrists. Strong enough to stand on.

"Has anyone else noticed the trend towards 'community forums' where customers are basically being recruited to solve the issues of other customers while the companies selling the products causing the issues sit back and take a passive role in the process?"

Like the forums that existed on CompuServe over 20 years ago, and probably elsewhere before that? No, never noticed them.

The only problem with PowerPoint is that anyone can use it, and most people aren't capable of making compelling content. I know some people who can do great things with PowerPoint, but just like any skill, it is only possessed by a small percent of the population. The average person can't sing, dance, cook, act, paint, draw, or code exceptionally well, either. It would be like blaming Word for an abundance of badly-formatted, boring stories.

And spawn a bunch of giant mutant kangaroos? DON'T THINK SO!

> With it's in ability to shop more then 1 window at a time.
> And I own an iPad, and I like it.

You're posting from it, right? :-)

Bit of a difference between that graph and this one.