He's asking if 2x the electricity means you get 2x the speed.

To discover that you have to read the patent. Now, lucky for you, this particular patent seems to be devoid of any real distinction, but most of the time you see a story about a patent here on /. the headline says "Apple patented farting!" but the patent itself actually says "Apple patented a valve that makes a user's farts smell like Granny Smith Apples" that few, if any, are likely to infringe on. Unfortunately the former generates more ad-revenue.

Iddn't that kinda none of your fucking business? Not everybody can move to where the internet doesn't suck, that's the end of the discussion.

Yes, they very noisily don't care.

What's funny about your comment is that you and the asshole that modded your post up are so ignorant on the topic that you're blissfully unaware of your contribution to the problem you're criticizing.

Yeah, that must be it. The entire United States looks like Portland.

Just to be clear, we're all joking about Apple only being popular with hipsters, but in main-stream numbers. Correct?

Fantastic! So does this mean we'll finally get smooth scrolling?

Hey everybody, Anonymous Coward is having a bad day. Could you all be a little extra nice to him?

I know you were going for a cheap laugh but unfortunately you've struck really close to home about how bad economics is understood around here. Some of the upmodded comments around here about supply and demand and markershare are just plain headache inducing.

The use of the hashtag is counted. Those counts are then sorted into trends and sorted again by location. I would say it's less about market research and more about what's happening in the news.

Maybe it's not as stupid as useless as you think. Why wouldn't real-time stats on what people on the internet are talking about be worth some major buckage?

What kind of multi-touch screen are you running on your PC?

Mr. Curtis, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?

Am I trying to rein it in, or are you trying to make it a valid nitpick? That's the flaw in your rationale, since we both have to bring points of discussion to make out case it ends in stalemate. So, no, I'm not proving your point, in fact you've weakened it. Your nitpick relies on off-screen assumptions, the spirit of those working against the goals of the charactets. No, that's not a valid nitpick, I'm sorry.