If history has any lesion for us it is that when a company decides to build a statement building it frequently coincides with the decline of the company. Mr. Cringley talked about this few months back
http://www.cringely.com/2010/12/edifice-complex/
Although they grew up in the digital age, young people know surprisingly little about their rights to online privacy, the study found. They seem more confident than older adults that the government would protect them, even though U.S. privacy laws offer few such safeguards. The lack of knowledge about the law, coupled with an online environment that encourages people to share personal information, may be one reason young people can seem careless about privacy...
I have ASUS UL80VT and have had it for over a month, it promised 10 hours, I have used in the office whole
day without charging, that is email, web, coding, jabber, and meetings using WiFi, my guess is I used the
computer for about 6 hours, and 3 hours standing idle/sleeping and there was still some juice left and I got
2 hours at home out of the same charge, that is close enough to 10 hours for me, this was in power saver mode.
I like the switching between the two graphics chips, works like a charm, for most applications there is no
need for the fast one.
I have got about 5 hours of game playing in on battery with the fast graphics on.
My only issue with the machine is that I do not care for the "mouse" buttons, but a USB mouse
solved that problem when lots of clicking is needed.
In short I like this machine a lot and highly recommend it.
With your bare hands?!?