It's not the interface, it's the drives themselves. They aren't really faster than they were when ATA-133 came out. Doesn't matter what interface you stick on there, hard-drives aren't getting faster (thank god for SSD). At 60TB also, the BER rate approaches something like 600% chance over the whole of the drive, or something like that, if they are using the same reliability numbers that current drives use. Terrifying.

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland is fun. Maybe when he gets a bit older, Nausicaa is one of the best "comics" of all time.

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Little-Nemo-Slumberland-Vol/dp/0930193636/
http://www.amazon.com/Nausicaa-Valley-Wind-Vol-1/dp/1591164087/

Maybe Prezi will help with the boring topic? Keep people's eyes engaged?

Also, the 10-20-30 rule has always worked pretty well for me. 10 slides. 20 minutes. 30 point font.

About seven years. That's the almost clock-work timing of supercomputer to laptop, desktop should be a bit sooner.

I don't particularly agree with Apple's stance, but your argument actually points out some reasons why it may be valid.

"To make money, you must design, market, and sell a product that the consumer..."

"In fact, every company in existence should just quit conducting market research, stop paying for focus groups..."

What Apple is saying, right or wrong, is that Samsung in fact failed to design and market a product that would be successful, they failed in their market research, failed in using focus groups and instead saw that Apple was successful and copied their design. Especially telling that they changed their design to match the iPads before their product release as Apple's success was more important to their design decisions then their own research and design.

"If you think high taxes on the Rich is apart of the solution, take a look at NY State, they did this and the rich have either left or are in the process of leaving and lowering NY's revenue generation." is factually incorrect.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/04/29/135813061/studies-rich-dont-flee-high-tax-states

Granddad just called floating point precision bugs thieves and had them flogged. Same bugs, more entertaining.

I remember back when granddad had a computer. He'd add up all the coins and do the math required for the accounting for the business. Then silly technology came along and now we have "calculators" and "computers". What happened to the real faces behind these jobs?! How many people are out of work that have the skills to do long division -JUST LIKE A COMPUTER-! It's a terrible thing and we should at once do away with progress. It's far too damaging to the economy.

Wasn't there some studies that showed that the type of carbon from Corn could be traced through the food chain? Wouldn't that make HFCS different in the isotope of Carbon provided to "natural" sources of sugar?

Swear to god, not trolling. Actually curious if this is the case.

You must be a real downer at the zoo.