I wish he was still alive. He was a bit grim in his later days though. Grim but still funny.

I'm not saying that they would be confused, it's an image thing. It could establish a link in a person's mind between Apple and waste removal. That is not a desirable connection for Apple, but it is desirable for the people making the iPood.

Corrupted nature of IP laws? I disagree. I don't know how this stuff works legally but in my opinion, Apple owns or at least is associated with damn near everything that has the iFormat naming style. What the hell is wrong with Apple not wanting its products associated with poo? Pick a different name.

Even more interesting is two protons: [ . ][ . ]

You can actually make a radiation shield that lets light pass through it by simply 'impregnating' acrylic with lead? Dangerous radiation is higher in frequency then normal light but is it really possible to block the one and not the other? I don't have a great understanding of how waves behave in the environment, but this stuck out as odd to me.

Is it as much fun if you know it's going to happen? I can't wait for the movie that plays off this idea with the protagonist expecting to be faux kidnapped but against all odds being kidnapped for real. My only other question is does this come with the option for a happy ending?

Touché

Asus UL30-VT. I picked that one specifically because it's ready to underclock/overclock out of the box as low as 1.06Ghz and as high as 1.73Ghz. It also has manually switchable video cards so I can use Intel onboard for battery life or the nvidia G210M (I think) for gaming. It will play 1080p though at 1.73Ghz on the onboard graphics. I popped an OCZ Vertex that I had laying around in there for the SSD and it's been great ever since. It has been a much more pleasant computing experience than trying to get by on a netbook.

Is there a legitimate reason to do this? At first it sounded funny to me but wont it become unfunny if it goes into standard practice? Plus, it breaks the convention of naming things after the person who discovered them. I mean he didn't really 'discover' it, I guess it's more like he's trying to brand it. I also suppose that calling a large number a hella is better than calling it a sendek. It's a slow news day.

I'm not too excited about Firefox 4.0 coming because it means that it will probably break compatibility with all my addons and re-arrange my user interface to what Mozilla thinks is most productive. I've continued to use Firefox because of how customizable it is, but that wont matter if they can't clean it up and keep performance on par with the other competitors. Chrome finally added extensions and just seems to make progress in leaps and bounds when they release a new version. I wonder if the efforts to make a cleaner, more reliable, faster browser are constantly being subverted by new features like improved javascript engines and HTML5, can we just slow down a bit?

Oh dear lord my CULV laptop w/ SSD is wonderful. Feels super fast and I average 7 hours of battery for day to day use. It's great to be able to fully shutdown too and not have to use battery draining standby because the boot is so quick. Forget hibernate, that'll only kill the drive life faster. You really don't need a large drive to run your typical applications off of. I took the 500GB HD that came with the laptop and popped it in an external case for my portable media storage (pictures, videos, etc). I can't wait for prices to come down and performance to keep going up as these fantastic devices become more mainstream.

What I want to know is how does something like this happen? You would think McAfee takes their new patch and tests it to make sure that it doesn't cause this type of annoying issue. How does something like this slip through the cracks?

I totally agree here. Netbooks suit a very good need for portability which is ironic for laptops when you think about it. I can stay on campus all day and check e-mail, read news/articles, write code (to some extent), surf the web, etc with my netbook. It's cheap, light, and most importantly the battery will last me all day so I don't have to carry that damned power cord around with me! If I do bring the power cord? It's a tiny brick -- minimal hassle. I do feel like they are a bit underpowered and I am now starting to look into ultralights like the Asus UL30, however this laptop wouldn't be a necessity. I get by just fine on a netbook during the day, an ultralight would just make it more comfortable. Netbooks/laptops/tablets/whatever are all meant to supplement a primary desktop IMO. I've been a great deal happier since I started working under that model.