Title: "...Sonic Screwdriver Exists."
Summery: "...could be created."
I call shenanigans.

Well this would explain why the state is blue most election years. It's not voting for the Democratic candidate; it's crashing.

Numberless is more or less right. It was a pun/bad joke based off of the ambiguity of the wording of the title.

That said, I was also trying to illustrate that that 6% is a bullshit number because the comparison is designed to make numbers sound as low as possible. A VALID and unbiased comparison, imo, would be as follows:

• Books purchased : non-ebook user
• Books purchased : ebook user
• Ebooks purchased : ebook user
• Ebooks purchased : non-ebook users (unlikly, but will doubtless happen)

What the headline gives us is an incomplete and biased picture.

So, you're both a bit wrong and a bit right.

Pretty remarkable considering that e-books aren't technically printed ... Painted? maybe. Rendered? perhaps. Printed? only if it is flat text with no formatting info.

Q: "SSD Price Drops Signaling End of Spinning Media?" A: No

Let's face it, a hard drive to hard drive is currently the backup method of choice. Anyone who denies it can be pointed to a plethora of, "Ask Slashdot: How do I store my data?" discussions. Just like when tape drives could store more than the systems hard disk, a hard disk offers to hold more than the average SSD. Never mind the fact that when an SSD fails, it's more than likely end-game for your data. But when a HDD fails, there's any number of data recovery companies at hand to restore it.

The introduction of SSDs will add pep to the computers we use, but hard drives will continue to be the workhorse for storing the bulk of our data for a long while to come.

Let's pull out Occam's razor and shave a bit...

If you wanted to blow up a bridge, wouldn't it help to know how bridges are built?

I live in Canada... My wife needs all of my body heat as it is.

There. Fixed that for you.

"Researchers in Belgium..."

Oh my! Such profanity!

I suggested to my wife we try the sextruplet system with my big dipper and the neighbors, but she would have none of it.

...and I can open a Doublemeat Palace.

When I was running a (now defunct) website, I noted that the ads were the slowest part of my site to load. My solution was to take all the static images and, with a little help of some additional PHP into my existing image system, I cached them. This sped up the loading of the page dramatically and allowed me to refresh my ad-cache when my site traffic was low.

will it be able to leverage the synergies of social media 2.0 user-facing semantics?

You must be a consultant. Oh, wait, that was a question. You must be the manager of a team of software engineers.

You bring up an interesting point. On second thought, I'll be Riker.

If it means that we can travel through space at FTL speeds, I'll buy it. Heck. I'll take two, but if I do, you have to let me be Worf.

I recommend you FedEx half a dozen packs of frozen peas to your hotel before you leave. There's two reasons for this.

1. When you're asked if you want mushy or regular peas you can say, "None, thanks. I brought my own." at which point you pull the bag of peas out of your pocket and enjoy some rather cold, but edible peas.

2. When you make some off hand remark about the Redskins best football team ever to your traveling companion, you can say to the passing soccer goon who hadn't realized you were an American, "No thanks, I brought my own." at which point you pull the bag of peas out of your pocket and enjoy a rather cold press against your blackened eye.