...because it's cool. And he has two controllers, apparently. http://youtu.be/4pOQ2sde98k

...all down the left side? And can Watson diagnose that?

Perhaps here: http://www.newscientist.com/special/best-new-illusions-2011

That is true, Moses was a marketing genius: from publicly destroying a couple of prototypes because the crowd were ignoring him, to preserving for posterity a poor substitute of the prototypes, whose actual command set weren't nearly as coherent as the originals. And his publicity stunts were talked about for years: magic shows, violence, years-long group exercise program!

Yes, the cell phone mostly killed the "I've Fallen And Can't Get Up!" MedAlert industry. You'd think there would have been corporate protections involved, such that cell phones could only be used in cases of fire or theft (or to call someone...but who does that anymore?) but having fallen, you must use your MedAlert or risk violating your EULA. Those darn wireless monopolies!

"It's just that only the other scientists get the chance to vote." Wrong wrong wrong. Science is not a democracy: it is a meritocracy. Everyone doesn't get a 'vote': only those people who know what they are talking about in regards to the science get to play. Everyone else gets to point and laugh. Physicists don't usually get to tell biologists how their results should appear, and vice versa. BUT, if it's a problem with the maths, that crosses fields and those better at the numbery-addery bits can join the fray..

Yeah: the iThing is your plastic pal who's fun to be with! Share and enjoy!

You've got it?! What am I supposed to put on my cereal until then?

they were trying to compete with the LHC but didn't have enough real estate, so they built a world wide detection network in their automobiles called the Large Vehicle Collider. Every time a vehicle has a sudden unattributed acceleration, it means it was hit by some sort of particle and an investigation could be begun on that controller. They just packaged the detectors in dual-function machinery. Way to go Toyota!

...and we are all slapped with sexual harassment lawsuits for staring at the headlines' tits. Starting now, I am going to only read internet postings with crossed eyes: take that, technology!

I got rid of the fans and noise by not using my computers at all. i used my time machine to go back 3 days to mail this comment to /. so it would show up on this forum. As you can see, they get a lot of mailers doing the same thing so sometimes the posts aren't timed correctly.

...I am looking forward to hating it. I hear you cry: "but you know nothing about it" And yet, still I avoid eating poo, without ever having tried it. Yes, I could be wrong, but I've seen 3-D ships going boom and i don't need two hours of digital space junk being thrown at me to prove the coolness of the 'new 3-D'.

I suppose I'll just wait for the full color, multi-media playing e-paper device that is surely to follow, then. And only at that point will I say that Kurzweil "took on" the Kindle. Until such time, I will read my books the old fashioned way: via pictographs on a cave wall by firelight.

I stand corrected, then. I tried reading books on a Palm device (and later my Samsung phone) a few years ago, but I found that more annoying than reading on my computer so I gave the idea the heave-ho: I really dislike reading with the back lighting, especially after working on a computer all day: it makes my eyes water and feel tired. As such the Kindle/Nook/etc are of great interest to me.

You might want to look at the math. If you, as an individual, drank $400 of coffee per year, that would lead to $80,000 of coffee per year covering over 200 employees. Or 100 employees who drink twice as much as you do. Or 50 employees who suffer severe shakes, headaches, and moments of telepathy. Or 25 employees who swim in tanks filled with the spice melange and wrap space-time so heighliner ships can reach their destinations. And that may be money well spent. Or 1 to 5 employees who were selling coffee to the other employees using company funds.