Maybe this is a sign that more systems will start coming with Ubuntu already equipped?

We're all doomed if they manage to bring these birds back to life in the future. This is almost as bad as flying mantas.

This sounds like a silly idea. If they're only concerned with the distraction that looking at the screen provides, then they should remove all DVD players, handheld consoles, laptops, radios, mp3 players, etc. How anyone can justify removing one tiny distraction but leaving a multitude of others is beyond me.

I think my brain has been broken. Honestly, I don't even think the guys over at Gateway are this incompetent. Just goes to show, you cannot hire good help these days.

Yet still, this technology would increase the cost of computers in theory, yes?

That when this technology is finally put to practical use, i.e. home computers, the cost of hardware is going to go up? Isn't there an implied health risk involving high speed protons, such as in the form of radiation? Granted, it would be on a very weak level, alpha particles, but consistent exposure to said particles over time would have an impact on ones health. I suppose that could be stopped by the case though... Just a thought.

The initial story pertains to humans and other primates. But mostly humans. We aren't talking about outsmarting other animals, but rather making scientific discovery into evolution, which is inherintly two different things. My argument still stands.

Whenever you tell the internet communities of the world that something is "unhackable", you're basically saying go ahead and prove us wrong. When the communities say I told you so, I wanna see Bill Gates cry.

Scientific discoveries that create a better standard of living for people hardly constitutes evolution.

Evolution is defined as "survival of the fittest." Meaning that the person that adapts the best, and lives to reproduce an adaptation via genetics, is evolutionary.

Scientific discovery would actually be a hinderance, logically, to evolution, as it removes the need to adapt to your surroundings. In this case, with cooked food, it reduced the need for the immune system to evolve to prevent illness.

People are starting to rely more on portability than functionality. For a lot of people, playing a game on an iPhone and playing a game on a Wii holds no distinctive difference. It's all just a matter of portable entertainment. A logical answer to the cellphone gaming craze would be that if you get bored of a game, you can simply download a new one, and based on your coverage, it's fairly simple. The portability of cellphone games is always going to be at the price of function and graphics (not to make all CPG's out to be poorly designed.) However, replayability when your sitting in the waiting room at the doctor's office is always going to be paramount. There's only so long you can carry around a PSP or DSi before you either start forgetting your games or charger, or it simply becomes too much of a hassle. Cellphones are going to be around for a long time, as are the games for them. There's nothing we can do about it.

If Zune were to be open sourced, I'm pretty sure the Zune Touch could compete with iPod Touch. And yes, I use Zune.