Valid point. A solar powered fleet would limit travel to daylight hours - not just twilight but sun-overhead daylight. East-bound travel would have to start and finish within a short time-span mid-winter. Adding a fuel backup means adding all the infrastructure necessary to convert fuel into motion in addition to electrical systems used for solar energy. By the time you add all that and the fuel, you've exceeded the weight limit that would allow solar-powered flight.

I would argue that the mountain of choices we have available to us now compared to 100 years ago would account for some the gains in abstract reasoning measurements. 100 year ago: Rabbit A or Rabbit B didn't matter much. The store only had a few brands of any particular product, if they were even branded at all. Today - Shoes: sneakers, loafers, sandals, pumps, flat, Nike, Adidas, New Balance, Nunn Bush, Bass, brown, black, leather, synthetic, Air, laces, straps, etc. We have to choose what we think will suit us best, weight one choice against another hundreds of times per day. We have to weigh the inputs - advertising, peer pressure, style, function, preferences. All of this takes heavy reasoning capabilities.

It has some definite elements of awesome, but it's interface is such a turd that it's hard to look past that. I've been developing a Windows 8 class for Support staff. There's been so many times when I exclaim "Cool! That should have been in Win7". Then I have to go back to that duct-taped construction paper and glue start screen and the mystique fades away. After using it for a few weeks, I don't hate it as much as when I started, but I still wouldn't load it on my personal machine.

They do, however, make an excellent cutting board.

Tablets make a great spoon and terrible kitchen tool. They're good for consuming, but not much else.

Stand up a XenApp server and load the Citrix Receiver.

Meh. It's a $200 spoon for Amazon content.

Windows Me?

With that many collisions, that would make the road pretty much unusable too.

Of course, this would render my favorite method of retaliation on a tailgater null - riding my windshield washer for about 1/2 mile.

And with the forward facing radar, the bastard computers can tailgate you even worse than Ann Arbor drivers!

More like reheated Chinese food. I'd give it about 30 seconds to spontaneously cool to 4 or 5 C.

One frantic onlooker commented "This makes it much better than that other company's force-feed spoon."

NEWS FLASH! Barnes and Noble cuts the cost of their content-feeder spoons by 10%. Mass hysteria on the streets!