If you ever go into your settings to see battery usage, you'll notice it's not the radios or the amplifiers, it's the *display* that uses the vast majority of the battery power. Sure, we need to get more efficient radios, but let's really go after getting the display technology much more power efficient, while at the same time coming up with a much more efficient battery technology than lithium ion or lithium polymer. Graphene and other battery technologies in the works look promising.

It's by design, of course, to get you to buy more routers. Duh!

This just goes to show how wasteful Hollywood is, and how they have no foresight. If they would just save the expensive sets they build, particularly for very popular franchises like Star Trek, and not want to dismantle/destroy everything after the shooting wraps, they could actually make more money off of it by selling tickets for tours, etc. Hollywood's inefficiency and wastefulness is well documented in Robert Rodriguez's book Rebel Without A Crew. Good book to check out.

Woz is so cool. If only he were Apple's CEO, we wouldn't be having all these lawsuits, and we'd probably have some REAL innovation from Apple (not catching up to making a 4" screen and including LTE). C'mon, smartphone makers, where's that long-lasting battery power (perhaps with a solar panel on the back to boot)? Where's that built-in holographic projector (a la R2-D2)? Think how useful that would be in the corporate world! (Not to mention gaming!)

In the words of George Carlin, "Calm down, have some dip."

I like big, I mean I've been begging for bigger smartphones ever since I had that Samsung Epix (Windows Mobile 6.5) phone. To me, anywhere from 4" to 4.5" is perfect. Anything bigger than that should just be a tablet. There needs to be a clear distinction. Maybe one day, with advanced knowledge of energy and matter, etc., we can invent a device that you can grow or shrink on demand to fit a particular need.

...Did we ever convert to the metric system? I rest my case.

Forget the upgrade version, then. Just buy and install the OEM version, it's only about $30 more and it's a full clean version without the upgrade hassles anyway. Duh!

This is a noble measure, but, like the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, it's unnecessary as long as the government obeys the original Bill of Rights, which they don't. If they are willing to blatantly disobey the original Bill of Rights, which is part of the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land, what makes anyone think they will obey lesser laws that are passed? Besides, the 9th Amendment to the Constitution (part of the Bill of Rights) says basically that just because a right is not specified in those Ten Amendments, it doesn't mean citizens don't have them. So that includes the right to a free internet, a big soda, raw milk, and an INFINITE number of rights people have to pursue life, liberty, and happiness so long as it causes no harm to others.

[Scotty]: What, she didna' have her shields up?

"hrmph! "I didn't get a 'hurrumph' out of that guy" - Blazing Saddles Sorry, you just reminded me of that scene from Blazing Saddles, I couldn't help myself.

That's all the more reason why I intend to learn all I can about networks (and databases, and so on). The end client device may change, but there'll always be a network of some kind.

Okay, not sure what you're saying, but college is not real education. Sorry. I went to a four year college and it was all but worthless. I finally learned how to think AFTER I got out of college and into the real world. College was so boring - it was like High School 2.0; I really didn't learn anything new. And for what my parents put in financially, they could have paid for about half of my house. Seriously.

See, this is exactly the kind of arrogance I find from "real" Linux users that just turns me and a lot of others off, and why Linux will never be mainstream on the desktop. Some things are just not easy or intuitive for the average user, and people like you just say "Oh, you're just using the wrong 'terminal emulator'." And I LIKE Netflix, okay? I like the old classic TV shows and various documentaries, and no matter how you slice it, if you want to see mainstream studio stuff (at least the classics, today's movies & TV shows SUCK by and large), then it's either Netflix, Amazon VOD, or similar. There aren't a lot of choices on that end, and all of them require some mainstream plugin that only works on Win or Mac OSX. Anyway, I made my choice to go with Win 7 and I'm happy with it. Not everyone is a Computer Science genius here. I don't know, maybe that's a prerequisite to reading/posting on Slashdot. How elitist.

Hmm, Renaissance Fair..."The Safety Dance!"