Mounds of Venuvian Blue Ray, DVD and CD discs.

Acting classes.

Hampster wheel.

It should be faster than that. My win 7 box is done booting and loading the os in about 12 seconds. Granted that is with 2 SSDs, 1 velociraptor and a slower 2 tb drive for mass storage.

This applies to kitchens as an analogy. Do you want to prepare a Thanksgiving dinner in a kitchen with a little 3x3 counter in it or do you want a kitchen lined with a lot of counter space? With more space you can actively work on more things faster. Period.

Nah office monitors work like real life desk real estate.

If you don't have the extra space you adjust by flip flopping through windows/piles of papers/folders and basically micromanaging the layout. It has a time and cognitive cost to do all that paging through crap to find what you want.

If you do have the extra space you make use of it more or less unconsciously/automatically. You will notice when it is gone however when you want it or notice you are spending more time fudging around flipping between things when you try to get work done.

If you do have the extra desk space/extra desktop monitors then you are able to spread things out more, support more stacks or smaller stacks and buffer information you want to be visible longer. It cuts down on visual search time and cognitive cost of searching because things are split (think sorting algorithms, same idea in a binary or similar search in that you already have multiple buckets when you start your search cutting down how much initial work you have to do to find something). 2d desktop spread allow you to your mapping memory more naturally.

It is not just pile X on monitor A and pile Y on monitor B but upper right corner of A has pile X but pile Y is in lower right corner of monitor B. All this is made easy because the human brain automates it without you having to think it through. It is leveraging the human brain ability to buffer information spatially.

This will be even greater with 3D desktops whenever that happens. The future for high bandwidth computer use is not even more restrictive 2d layouts (or in the case with metro 2d mapped to 1d -- ugh), but 3d desktops layouts. Currently we just do a 3d mapped/flattened into 2d but I would like to see a full 3d environment some day for desktop/tier 1 object organization.

Exactly. This will be starwars for 'new generations'.

I can feel the hate growing within you.

They already tabled the extended/expanded universe. They apparently want to work with a blank slate going forward from episode 6 with a _new_ story.

According to an interview with a Lucasfilm source the new movies will be components of a completely new story so yes they are tossing out the whole expanded universe for these.

New systems can end up this way. It has to do how good the person is at organizing abstracted objects.

Yep. Putting election day on a weekend would be very good.

I use velcro ties.

Some. Not all.

Touch is great for accessing and consuming content.

Touch is currently horrendous for producing or modifying content.

These are not yet 'unified' avenues of usage as yet.

This kind of cultural change takes time and gradually, it isn't done yet and the on life support phase takes years.