I was thinking more like a General Products Hull.

Given the typical programmer's social skills, it's due to lots of practice. /programmer :-(

No, I'm saying the term is generic. Whether or not Apple (or possibly NeXT?) used the abbreviation app first, it's widely used, an obvious slang term for application, and used as a distinct noun, and Wikipedia et al do not associate it with Apple.

Google "android app"

About 70,800,000 results (0.28 seconds)

I think it's been used elsewhere for a bit.

I think it's more:
1) Will never cheat
2) Will cheat given the opportunity
3) Will cheat in times of stress, depression, weakness (a revenge affair, for ex.) if there is an opportunity.

Social networking makes it more likely group 3 will cheat, as it is more likely they will have an opportunity when they are vulnerable.

It doesn't excuse the affair, and doesn't make the other person feel any better about it; it just makes the 3s statistically more likely to cheat than if they were, say, living on an isolated farm in Montana in the 1880s.

You do realize the fellas have to cheat with someone, don't you? And I don't think the closet cases are anywhere near the majority.

I suppose you could claim it's married men and unmarried women, but there are certainly lots of unmarried men who are more than willing to sleep with married women.

Thank you for your kind thoughts, but I really do think it's too late for him. For my wife's sake, I hope for one for me. For my mother's sake, I hate to think this way, but... well, I won't say it, just think it.

As a general rule, my father doesn't seem scared, just confused, although he's had a strange paranoia about money. This despite a generous retirement pension/savings/etc.

Not only does this give an actual test for Alzheimers, it also means that there's a definitive symptom for it. Wipe out the cause of that symptom and maybe you can stop or reverse the progression of this horrible affliction.

My father is already at the moderate dementia stage of this illness, and it's devastating. Not so much for him as it is for my mother.

The industry has moved away from "more horsepower than you'll ever need!" to "uses less power than you can ever imagine!"

As someone who still spends way too much time waiting for computers to finish tasks, I think there's still room for both. What we really want is CPUs that are lightning-fast and likely multi-parallel (and not necessarily low-power) for brief bursts of time, and low-power the rest of the time.

My CPU load (3Ghz Core 2 Duo) is at 60% right now thanks to a build running in the background. More power, Scotty!

one option would be to put induction cables into the road, so that the car can be charged while driving.

Taxi stands could have built-in charging cables for electric taxis.

1.21 gigawatts? Great Scott!

The only goat I've ever had seemed like it had a high proportion of bone, grisle, etc. for a given amount of goat meat. Is this typical or was it just a cheap cut?

Hey its whatever your plan is say 50 bucks plus 10 bucks an additional line, and 30 bucks for data (for the iphone) per iphone as well so if you have two iphones thats 60 bucks for data, man per iphone talk about nickel and dime-ing you to death

More like tenning and twentying you to death, I'd say...

I don't know if i'd call it a niche, when it's more of a gaping hole.

Wait, are you talking about watching porn?

For the past 30 years, there's been a real technology treadmill. PCs, video games, VCRs->DVDs->BluRay, more recently flat panel TVs and digital cameras. It seems, though, like the treadmills are starting to slow. The move to 64-bit OSes (handled cleanly by Linux and Apple, Microsoft... not so much) seems like the last major transition even to be done, and high-end video cards can handle most games at beyond HD resolution. Movies and TVs could go even higher-def, but human eyesight often isn't good enough to care. Likewise, cameras are all multi-mega-pixel, capable of storing huge numbers of photos and even taking high-quality video. Do you think we're nearing the end of the upgrade treadmill for video games too? The next Wii could be higher def and higher-detail graphics capable, the 360 could have Blu-Ray, the PS3... seems like there's no compelling reason to upgrade. Sure, it could be even faster, and look a little better as a result, but would that be enough to justify the purchase?

If not, shrinking the system (to reduce costs) and selling more throughout the world may be the only direction Sony can profitably go.