Now I know the kind of porn you're into :)

Or like Windows NT's logs, ka-zing!

The concept doesn't seem that old to me, or perhaps my area (Tampa, Florida) was just very late to the game. Until I was in 6th grade (2001), both the K-12 school and public libraries ran on IBM 3270 dumb terminals. As "field, field, X, enter, field, field, field", etc., was somewhat difficult for many students, card catalogs were available until several years after the switchover. The schools didn't rid themselves of them until 2003, and the public library system removed them in 2008, except at large regional branch libraries, where they were still available and updated (although not as rigorously or regularly as the digital catalog) as of January 2013 (when I moved out-of-state.)

Here's an ARM Cortex-M0 in DIP.

It's worth noting that the Android API already provides methods and identifiers specifically for handling mice and styluses. see http://developer.android.com/r... and http://developer.android.com/r...

And I'd love to see T-Mobile with an easy billion to build out more LTE with.

Fallacy much? :P

No, iPad is just a dodgy ass device. For fucks sakes, it doesn't support mice or standard gamepads (instead resulting in iCade, another protocol on top of Bluetooth that exists solely to work around Apple's lack of foresight.)

Bluetooth keyboard.

Which was a solid game, mind you. Any racing game that drives me to amphetamines to beat the AI has to be good.

Only if you believe it takes more than tape runtime to convert a tape to DVD. Get one of those cheap VHS-to-DVD dubbing machines.

Actually, you're half-right. I'm not sick of compression, just bad compression. 100Mbit/s would actually be fine, but extra headroom for multiple streams, etc., wouldn't be bad. I don't mind MP3 if it's e.g. 256kbit/s or 320kbit/s,

And then there's the "download and then play" type consumption for media. Maybe I rather not stream, but download and watch later? Gigabit on the home server would make that a whole lot less painful on a decent public Wi-Fi.

Oh, let's not forget "future-proofing". If it's not needed today, it'll certainly be needed tomorrow. Rather just get it done and over with before there's a problem

Future-proofing, then. Knowing that bandwidth usage is going up and up and up, having an insanely fat pipe early will keep you from feeling the pressure until much later.

And 1000Mbit/s allows you to tone down the compression quite a bit! What good is HD if I can still see the fscking MPEG macroblocks?!