Line of big screen TVs in a store window.

How do you know this? They are just as likely to plexiglass a trainer as a real shuttle. You can touch a piece of lunar rock (or at least the grime and grease of millions of fingers coating it) in Houston and Florida, I imagine they'll let people "touch a tile" or something like that. Alternately, you could just just buy yourself a chunk of meteorite for less than the cost of a family pass to KSC http://compare.ebay.com/like/230209530807?var=binlv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&rvr_id=224679782523&crlp=1_263602_324952&UA=WXF%3F&GUID=49f3655312f0a026824779e7ff56401d&itemid=230209530807&ff4=263602_324952 . Besides, every astronaut has also bought gas at the Hess station just south of KSC, but they aren't putting the gas pumps in a museum. (Most) people want the real thing, not a "trainer".

It isn't the frame rate that's going to be the problem with The Hobbit, it's Peter Jackson's altering Tolkien's story and characters.

What does your company's legal department prefer?

Tell that to the people that live around Florida's phosphate mines (you know, the ones that provide the fertilizer for "modern farming methods"). Consequences include radioactive pilings (radon and uranium), toxic processing water, ruined watersheds, depleted groundwater, sinkholes, and a ravaged landscape. The Earth as a system is far more complex and interdependent that you seem to imagine.

Nothing new under the sun. Check out any old pulp magazine from the 20s or 30s, or a modern Reader's Digest or Analog. Ad-supported, just like your local newspaper. Most paperbacks have adverts in the back for other books from that publishing house.

Will it support PnP wireless?

What will Dan Brown write about now?

Iron is a limiting nutrient. If you add iron to seawater, all other things being equal (e.g. phosphate), you will probably enable more "stuff" to live in that region, cf. "Importance of iron for plankton blooms and carbon dioxide drawdown in the Southern Ocean HJW De Baar, JTM de Jong, DCE Bakker - 1995 - nature.com"

You aren't considering the importance of lap/desktop computers in business. Corporations are big spenders in that sector. A smart phone is great, but not for manipulating 10,000 line spreadsheets, complex modeling, or typing up five page reports.

"t's not but it is sufficient for about 95% of real world users." Personally, I'd say it is sufficient 95% of the time for real world users. The problem is the other 5% of time. MSO, on the other hand, is sufficient more like 99.9% of the time.

The branch of the federal government that I work for has no problem with employees using government equipment to check personal emails (as long as it isn't abused). Porn, logging into personal financial sites, and trading stocks are about the only things specifically proscribed. Web-use at work is logged but not reviewed (there's too much of it and, being a research center, the sites accessed can be a bit eclectic), but there isn't anybody reading over my shoulder if I use my laptop at home. Of course there isn't a time-clock here and most of us happily work more than 40 hours a week (science research), so my situation may be an anomaly. That said, one of my buddies is an Army Major and he uses his laptop for personal stuff too, so maybe not. I guess it's kind of like a fringe benefit. I've worked in the private sector and things weren't any different there; people use the internet throughout the day for a variety of purposes, private and business. A company that has a policy against its employees using assigned laptops for personal internet use (especially after hours) is out of touch with reality. Most people are working more than 40 hours, so it isn't reasonable to expect them not to take care of personal business periodically during the work day.

...pretty much, yes.

I don't know...is the iPhone really a gaming platform?