Make them too large to swallow I guess /buckyballs

I concur sir, I concur.

a re-imagining of the first three episodes (most recently made movies) that still haunt my every thought of a galaxy far away...

As disturbing as it is to think what could happen to the franchise, its far less disturbing knowing that jaded old Mr. Lucas wont be behind it. Episodes I-III were a mockery of film making and I really have to agree with Plinkett .

Thinking about it, I'm not even sure who I would trust to continue or re-imagine the series...maybe Peter Jackson?

I think I should have used a /sarcasm at the end of my post, it was mostly meant in humor. I think there's definitely potential, but you have to admit the irony here.

Didn't realize this double posted, please delete. Thanks

That's right, I remember my mother-in-law saying she really wanted the Note for that exact reason.

It'll be interesting to see if more physical interface/touchscreen options gain popularity.

The first thing that occurred to me was games for children who may be too young to interact with only a touchscreen.

I mean, if you can make anything an input device regardless of whether it has a circuit in it, I guess you can dream up a lot. I'm just not brainstorming well today or something.

So we make touchscreens so we can use only our hands for natural interfaces....and then create things to put in our hands again?

This is kinda what I was thinking. I don't know enough about low level hardware interaction to answer this, but I would think its logical to assume trade-offs.

I mean, could we really increase the number of cores, increase performance, and lower battery life all at once (lets assume battery technology stays the same for ten years and remains constant even though it wont)?

I was thinking adding cores would do little in raw performance other than making the phone more adaptable to different use cases (multi-processing certain apps/services) and better at doing nothing more efficiently (idle). But like I said, not a hardware guy. I would like to know how a chip with 48 cores compares to a chip with say 16 cores in terms of benchmarks. Surely with more cores each core is less powerful right?

In a capitalistic society, organizations follow a survivalistic way of operating unless kept in check by the people purchasing their products. As a result, I have to blame the society that isn't keeping these organization in check by being cognoscente of the issues mentioned.

Why should people get off so easily? What good does it do a society to just allow people to consume technology services like zombies and then demand that organizations treat the zombies better?

Raise awareness, promote consciousness, and force organizations to operate in a more ethical way.

The only mainstream hacking I ever hear about is usually "protest" hacking or "shock and awe" hacking against major organizations.

I really hope the FBI is focusing more on improving their own cyber warfare capability against countries such as China that may have insidious intentions for our vulnerabilities.

I mean, if Playstation Network gets hacked I guess its a sad day, but I really hope they're working above that level of hacking at this point.

I would like to see their sales forecasting. I mean outside of Apple, you've still got the Nook, the Fire, the Nexxus, and a plethora of other Android tablets eating up market share. Add the iPad Mini and the new HP Envy and I really don't see how this could go well for them.

Surface doesn't have any real competitive edge other than working with other Microsoft products (which is closer to a disadvantage IMHO).

I agree, I don't fully understand why Microsoft tries to appeal to end users. The decision to jump in to the tablet market this late in the game fighting a market inflated with Apple and Android tablets just seems desperate. Also, HP is jumping back in to the game with Envy after making us think they were done with end user devices.

Tablets do have a limited use case, but from the perspective of these four companies they are all that matters right now.