Micro is rated for more insertions (I believe 10,000) than mini. Plus, micro enables thinner devices.

I see usage scenarios for computers in the kitchen all the time, and each time I cringe at the thought of what the interfaces on those things will look like after typing/touching them with hands full of whatever foodstuffs the cook was working with. Market something like this for an iPad in the kitchen and I'd consider it useful.

Egads, forgot to mention Windows XP. Seems Chrome beta (9.0.597.19) is faster on XP, even on a 4 year old laptop if my results on Chrome are directly comparable to others.

Latest Chrome on a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop, AMD Turion 1.6 GHz 1 GB RAM, ATI Radeon xPress 1150 using UMA
#1 - 503
#2 - 37
#3 - 6670

Your browser's total score is 9446 out of a possible 50000

IE8 same machine:
#1 - 94
#2 - 1
#3 - 465

Oddly, I cannot seem to copy and paste from IE.

A second run on IE8:
100/1/1215... it seems like minimizing the browser increases performance.
Let's try minimized on Chrome:
541/44/6701 - slight improvement. - Your browser's total score is 9884 out of a possible 50000

Let's try Chrome in a new tab and minimized (other results were in a new window)
548/45/6600 - 9890 out of a possible 50000

So, the benchmark seems to be affected by whether the browser is minimized or not. Might want to check to see if it's also affected by being in the foreground/background with multiple windows open, and also multiple tabs.

I've always wondered if there was a reason why manufacturers didn't use both sides of the silicon for lower powered chips, like memory. Seems like a win-win... twice the component count for the same silicon investment. Yeah, handling might be tricky, but not a showstopper.

I've read a lot about electric cars and _electric_ infrastructure, generating capacity, etc. However, I haven't seen a single article addressing the loss of taxes from gasoline. Gas taxes pay for road maintenance. Heck, there were stories awhile back about people who were using biodiesel or waste fryer oil in their cars who had to get some special license or permit to cover the taxes they weren't paying. It's why red diesel fuel is so cheap... only farmers who don't drive on roads can use it.

So... where will the revenue come from after hundreds of thousands of people switch to electric cars or plug-in hybrids? Will there be a tax on electricity? Special metering for rechargers? A general flat-tax added to all electricity prices?

US Sulphur oxide emissions in 1999 were about 18,500,000 tons, mostly from coal power plants.
And gasoline and low-sulfur diesels mean comparing diesel-powered ships to cars is rather lopsided in the extreme.
Hell, if you only counted methane emissions, we'd all be up in arms about how badly a cow pollutes compared to a human.

Windows won because Microsoft just gave it away for the longest time.

I'll disagree with you there. MS kinda had to give away Windows 3.0, but one change from 3.0 to 3.1 made all the difference in the world: TrueType fonts with WYSIWYG printer output. That was truly the birth of the desktop publishing revolution. The new simplicity of being able to create good looking documents, handouts and brochures *without* having to know any arcane printer commands meant you no longer needed the WordPerfect Guru secretary who knew all the ins and outs of the printer command codes.

Lucrative is right. They seem to have garnered 1.3 million dollars in funding for their efforts.

Smaller satellites implies smaller mirrors. The resolving power of a telescope depends on the diameter of its mirror. So you could have many small telescopes in orbit and only get fuzzy, unclear images, or one big one that delivers sharp images, and due to the mirror size is more sensitive to boot.

As for land-based, build a 100 meter mirror and scope and you will see.... nothing in infrared, which is what the JWST is designed for. The earth's atmosphere absorbs and re-radiates low infrared which means all you can really see is a sort of dull glow. Yes you can see stars, but the really faint light you want is drowned out by atmospheric emissions. That's why the JWST has to be kept so cold, because thermal emissions from the mirror would drown out any light signal from truly faint objects.

Apparently the debugging process doesn't help to combat the effects of a thorough slashdotting.

Guys with expensive laptops will be at the following five locations:

sheesh

Between long and short-term memory is intermediate-term memory. I let my brain manage it, unless it's something that I won't use frequently enough and might forget, in which case I toss it in a text file I call 'chaos' and surround it with keywords I can search for. I've been doing the 'chaos' thing for years now, kind of a catch-all database.

Now if every other ISP would do something similar. Maybe block access until a user reads a notice or something.

That said, Comcast's way of doing this might look to me like the website I was looking at was trying to sell me malware... like one of those "YOU'RE INFECTED! SCAN NOW?" popups.