Does the fact that none* of the Apple Operating system names are of animals not native to America? *After 5.1, which is "Kodiak" - which can be found in Alaska. 5.2 Mac OS X v10.0 "Cheetah" 5.3 Mac OS X v10.1 "Puma" 5.4 Mac OS X v10.2 "Jaguar" 5.5 Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther" 5.6 Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger" 5.7 Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" 5.8 Mac OS X v10.6 "Snow Leopard

there are pumas in the American west and in Florida, they are just called Mountain Lions or Cougars or Floida Panthers. same thing.

This is a little like making a gem-encrusted toilet seat. While undoubtedly a useful interface (I use it almost every day), it is ill-suited to fast, bulk transfers, and I'm anticipating crappy performance despite the high price tag.

I find the toilet seat to be perfectly well suited to fast bulk transfers.

From what I understand, Iran has a good, or at least decent, transit system, (they aren't a third world country) and a decent communication grid

Iran was, by the very definition of the term, a third world country. Not that the term has any meaning, any more, as the Soviet Bloc, the second world, no longer exists.

So why only military sonar? Couldn't this happen even with regular sonar?

not a lot of high powered sonar use in the civilian world, i would guess.

Don't hard drives decay quickly if unused?/blockquote of course not, unless they are Seagates.

On the other hand, I'm just so scared of the consequences: we are playing with nature and past experience shows that we usually don't fully understand the long-term consequences of our actions. We usually regret such experiments.

nature played with us first, it's only fair that we reciprocate.

I still believe iPhone is all marketing, the product itself is just average. But that's only my opinion...

have you used or owned one? as an owner of an iPhone 3G, and having used many other smartphones on the marked, i'd have to say that ya-ya-ya-ya-you're on crack.