How much storage would be required to store all those conversations for a month? Any guesses?

Where are they going to get all that high purity raw material to make that much Sapphire Crystal? Alumina in that purity and volume isn't really readily available?

Really given the 'error rate' that Tesla has with this issue they have fixed something that wasn't really a problem at all. Or at least it was one that was so insignificant it's no big deal. I'd also like to say: Great Job Tesla on showing how to make a great product and stick it to the old guard as well.

It's not naive at all it's based on fact. But yes I guess some systems will allow for rule bending from the parent level and as anyone in the US knows - "Aptitude" tests (SATs for example) have flaws. The established system in Canada is quite rigid and testing is done in the absense of parents and your kid could study forever and it's just something that can't be learned. Just like you can't take a kid with a genetic defect that puts the kid at an IQ of 80 - and through learning bring his IQ up to 100. Just not likely to happen. Sure they can be 'smarter' through learning but this testing dertermines intrinsic aptitude and learned things aren't what is tested.

Giftedness you either have or you don't. Johnny won't show up as gifted just because you used your money and hired tutors to give him an edge. You can't make your kid intrinsically smarter in the way that the gifted testing identifies. At least not to the magnitude needed to be categorized as gifted. My 10 year old son is gifted. There was one other kid in his grade of ~100 that were determined to be gifted. The probability distribution showed he has intelligence that is "one kid per 1000 or above" - you can't take a 'smart' kid and make him gifted. What the testing determines is kids who are hardwired with extreme exceptional cognitive abilities and reasoning and not that he's a good student who has worked harder.

(We live in Ontario Canada...) My son is in Grade 5 and is Gifted and (math art and general knowledge) it's astounding how we had some astoundingly large life-altering decisions to make on his behalf last year (Grade 4 is when the province assesses all students). Your assumption that gifted kids learn on their own any more than 'normal' kids and somehow don't need as much guidance is wrong. They need the same guidance but that guidance needs to be at their pace. While very smart the issue isn't that they self-learn it's that they absorb the information at a much quicker pace than the rest of the class. Think of it like owning a Ferarri with a 250mph top speed and only being able to drive it in 40mph roads every day. It might take most people in the class 5 attempts at a new concept (for example multiplication or exponents) before it sinks in - gifted kids get it the first time and move on. The problem is then they sit there bored while the rest of the class goes at a 'normal' pace. So the lost opportunity is what is missed. He sits around unchallenged and understimulated. If my kid can learn something the first time he shouldn't have to wait while everyone else figures it out on the fifth attempt. This is where it builds frustration for the kids and the teachers and gifted kids who it's already been determined have very quick minds- they can cause a hell of a lot of disruption. It's in fact very similar to how a developmentally challenged kid on the other end of the spectrum needs special attention the 'average' class setup can't support it. We chose the itinerant program for our son rather than wholeheartedly moving him to the gifted school because he enjoys his friends he has and 'balance' is important to us and him rather than the potential isolation of moving him out on an 'island'. He goes every month or so to a gifted school for a week and they tackle very intresting topics. Since it's full of gifted kids the pace and challenge and maturity of the content is unreal for 10 year olds but it's very liberating and has helped a tonne. This whole process of finding this out explained the whole reason why we were constantly frustrated with the School system. It wasn't serving his needs. Now that he has been identified there is an individual program set up for his specific needs and he gets the special attention he needs *without being a detriment to the overall system*. It's been wonderful.

Really there had to have been a few cell phones on that plane the NSA should be putting its tracking efforts to good use.

You got rid of your C64? Man that's just silly.

I really want to know who will buy ARM Holdings. Any speculation?

They make money by driving people into their product and disrupting other companies. It's awesome really how disruptive Google is to competitors. They're making a larger argument for getting rid of a landline and even in time a voice plan... hell... if wi-fi is available you don't even need a data plan just a tablet or laptop with wifi. Voila - free phone calls and you're even more in love with Google. It's a very disruptive scenario they've sprung on the telcos today. By increasing reliability and acquiring more behaviour from you - they know everything you do in another aspect of your life. It's easy with that info to target you with ads, or sell a connection with you to a company. **prediction** - this will interface with Google streetview some day. You'll be able to simply 'walk' down a street and click on a house or company to call. There goes all phone book / yellow pages cos. Businesses will be buying the virtual real estate on Streetview. GPS - Geolocation - you'll be able to simply ask your phone "Where is the closest (insert store here) and it'll dial that phone number for you.

The ONLY reason for this is lack of competition. Hands down. Look at areas/countries with more competition - and the rates are cheaper. Gee what has happened since the 3 (or so) upstarts starting entering the mobile market- Rogers and Bell fought in court, when that didn't work (surprisingly - since it's been about the ONLY time the CRTC/Gov't allowed one for the 'little guy') - they started dropping rates and are in the process of introducing new cheaper lines of products - to essentially squeeze them out at the starting gate - but these new lines are of course only in the markets served by the startups. They're bastards. I for one with the CDN gov't would allow pure competition, fiercely fight back the Bells and Rogers attempts to thwart competition, allow foreign ownership at any level, and while they're at it - let me select a la carte tv channels so I don't have to pay for 5 foreign language channels and the 25 other channels I don't want just to watch the 5 channels I do watch. Torontoman.

Oh here we go again - now we'll have hairy suits in the next Olympics that have pushed the bounds of technology.

All shortcomings aside with the Ipad... It is designed for the masses. It's slick 'to them' and will sell like crazy. Your average person doesn't care how it works just as long as it works.

And in reality Apple is truly gearing up to sell a lot of TV shows over the Ipad... It will be a new TV watching experience.

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