My Civic has climate control. Not really something that is a must have, but it's there.

Quieter and smoother ride? compared to a Si? yes. compared to a EX? nope. If you want quieter and smoother get a Caddilac. Civic is not about Quieter and smoother ride.

I dont have to wait for it to boot. It suspends and wakes nicely.

also the "wacom tablet" remark is way off. I CAN use my finger or a stylus. it's a resistive screen.

as for apps. I have far more apps available than the iPad. far FAR more.

I am helping a friend make a "facebook game" and within 1 week in alpha status with ONE post to friends we already have 10,000 players. He is studying Zenga's money making setups and asking how we can replicate them. I suggested lower prices to entice the dollars out of the wallet faster.

Honestly, if you can find some half-assed coders and a http server with mysql and php on it and have a game idea that is somewhat fun you can get a million players easily. I suck at PHP,HTML5, JS and it's working. IF he actually hired some skilled people and some skilled artists, he would be doing far better.

The number of facebook games out there that are crap are amazing and they have players..

Famous quote, but nonsense. In many ways, trying to build large BASIC programs and ending up with unmaintainable spaghetti code is one of the most valuable lessons a programmer can learn.

Who's the first to try the transporter only to find they cant map electrical fields correctly and you end up a vegetable on the other side.

I dont see transporters ever working. I see small scale wormhole travel showing up way before a disintegration - transmit - reconstruction process.

Turn down gravity : Waterbed.

Increase gravity : wear a weighted vest.

Perkier girls : boob job.

I think it's covered already.

"No, it does work quiet well, it just hasn't worked with humans in the last time. All horde-animals are practicing that principle every day."

The Native Americans used this successfully for centuries until the white man showed up and let them know what greed does for you.

"If money is obsolete, what stakes do they use in their poker games? I always wondered about that. "

Sexual favors.... Data was built "fully functional" for a reason.

"The actual raw materials would be the rare and valuable commodity."

not really... IF I run out, the stray pets in the neighborhood will do nicely.

But then the smart people will buy replicator modchips and replicate replicators. Giving replicators to all my friends, selling them cheap to others... etc....

Work for money? hellooo.. Replicator.....

It's like a genie in a bottle... wish 1 : I wish for unlimited wishes...

GO to ebay, search Tablet PC. Pick one.
Download Ubuntu 10.10
Install Ubuntu 10.10 on the tablet.

Magical poof happens with a bright brown genie appearing and angels singing.... you have a ubuntu tablet! Something that nobody ever though of....

Granted, Tablet PC's have been around for decades, and running Linux on them has been happening for decades.... Ignore that.

Fujitsu stylistic works great, plus I can use a stylus so I can use it as a writing tablet. Too bad there is not a OS replacement for MSFT One Note.

It's right there on the website at the top...

FORBIDDEN!

But herein lies the problem. These pants wil NOT be worn by a nerd. Nerds know they are 100% useless and wont work, Only rich yuppies with no IQ or education on the subject will buy them.

So they are "rob me" indicators.

I pay $0.08 sucker... Living in a city with a Nuke ROCKS!