Re: "...You walk one mile south, one mile west, and one mile north. You end up exactly where you started. Where are you?" Nowhere in the question is the proviso "after which" or any condition of not using transport other than walking stated... as in "...one mile west, and one mile north AFTER WHICH you end up exactly where you started. Where are you?" So, as this was not stated, I could have hopped a plane from the landing point back to the start point. Not using transport might be "implied" in the question , but that's only a personal matter of interpretation. It's not actively forbidden. Furthermore, the question says "You're standing on the surface of the earth", in which could be argued that it is immediately ruling out the north pole, unless, of course, ICE is considered "the surface of the earth" . A geologist might be the one to ask this question to, if Ice is "the surface".. I suspect that this more lengthy response might be part of the answer Musk expected, because the "north pole" answer is so patently obvious that it, by itself , proves nothing intelligence wise !

Now I've heard it all. Precisely where does the third dimension .. er.. fit, then?

I think that t's a disturbing sign when people who do I.T. , or write code for a living,( a good percentage of /. readers) would consider support of science trolling.. Precisely where do they think the entire I.T. sector came from?

Thanks, "Macs4all" you saved me having to write what you just wrote, even though I have definite issues with Apple lately, the truth is the truth...

Because, for tens of THOUSANDS of years, performers needed to be able to, you know, perform, in order to get paid.. WHen the phonograph first appeared the very thought of trying to make money from recordings was ludicrous. We (As a professional musician myselffor 40 years) used recordings as "advertisingt" to get people to comne to our shows. At 5 cents a record profiteering from recordings was considered absurd. The Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, and Allen Klein changed all that.. Nowadays, "artists" NEED to sell their recordinhgs because the big selling artists are talentless nimrods that can't even sing in tune without electronic help. The artists that CAN perform live, conversely, are the ones supporting musiuc sharing, almost to a one...

Sorry, but that "emulator" is a similator only.. It requires the original code of the app to run, and can't do anything but surf the web, the other "apps" are dummies. It's only applicatiion is to let devs see how their app would behave on an iOS device. It can't run external iOS apps. As far as wanting to run these apps on OSX, perhaps there's similar productivity apps for the OSX platform, but when it comes to games such as pinball, over 90% of the currently available ones are iOS only. Since the developers of many keep promising to port them to OSX, but never do, an emulator is currently the only optionsort of having several devices for all the games, short of an iOS layer in OSX..

Golly.. That is the very same argument Britain used about India, in the Victorian era.

OK... smells of incompetence to me. For years they've been hinting of the ability to run iOS apps on OSX,m but it's always been implied it's too difficult. YEt Microsoft didn't seem to have any problem, and surely OSXs code can't be more imcompatible than Windows. Sheer incompetence.. and another reason to run Linux instead on my Mac..

... On a Mac Plus, no less. WHat happened to it? Somebody donated the mac to a thrift shop and forgot to wipe the harddrive? Seriously, it's yet a OTHER example of Star Trech Tech turning up for real... Now, what about food replicators?

Yup, they're still using the same method of advertising their radicalness. Bullets for God. Started with The Mahatma Gandhi...

I've already had a chance to see the 4K format on Youtube.. Bloody awesome on a large iMac. Maybe they're going to use hardware DRM for DVDs , but what about 4K content purchased on YT?

WEll, not quite. Apple doesn't add essential security updates to pre Lion (10.7) systems. Since the rot set in after 10.6.8, many users are still on these OS versions simply because they're more accessible.. i.e. no new "improvements", and of course, many (like me) have just THOUSANDS of $ invested in software that is entirely obsoleted by 10.7 and up systems. These are developers that have either been bankrupted , or driven out of business, by the endless "improvements" in OSX (like the highly respected "Little Wing pinball", or Unsanity, creators of "Shapeshifter"), or they no longer supply updates to their OSX software. Using Snow Leopard, which is the last version to support the last 10 years worth of OSX software, exposes you to everyt malignant code for OSX in existence. Apple believes that the risk of infecting those user's computers with worms or trojans is good for the company's bottom line, somehow.... or what they are implying is that there is NO such malware after all...

I believe the 95 years is for film, not audio recordings, although I might be wrong. In the UK it's 50 years, not 70, as already many pre 1962 items are pubblic domain Unless they've changed it in the last 3 years there. After approximately 2010 there was a glut of bargain basement '50s recordings on cheap labels with "free" recordings, all coming from the UK, and , perhaps other places such as spain... This is all moot, however, as your whole argument is based on the "everybody else is doing it so I should be able to" Just because everybody ELSE is going around prodding cattle prodsa up stranger's butts *doesn't* mean it's OK for you too. WTF is WRONG with the moprality in this world?

I can tell you that, after having been a musician for 40 years, .. Zip. Zilch. Unless they're reissued, and that is a possibility, since retro is popular. But even then, it's the record companies that own the copyrights on most recordings before 1980, and the artist may or may not be deemed worthy to recieve a pttance, depending on if they have rights to their own publishing . I think if the industry gave a flying fuck about the artists they grind up, then instead of pushing for a 70 year term, which only benefits the big labels as all the recordings concerned are from the 60's music boom wherein the labels owned everything, then instead they would insist on a tax on every single used recpord tape and CD sold, to be divided upo between the recording artists and , possibly, head studio tech.

No he said the only "correct choice". For decades, Americans have been making the "wrong" choices.. choosing all the options you listed.. Frankly, I think it's too late now. Putting the genie back in the bottle is darn near impossible...