Intellects love to proselytize against Hydrogen's long checklist of negatives. The ONE advantage it holds is ' Single Point Capture'.

The manufacture of Hydrogen in vast quantities at a fixed plant location enables economies of scale to be leveraged upon a single point to capture, control, clean and manage pollution at the source. A hydrogen powered economy promises to replace the millions of pollution sources in the Oil powered economy providing a structured ecosystem that enables the replacement and elimination of millions unmanageable hydrocarbon pollution sources with zero-emission hydrogen power.

The difference with a distinction...Hydrogen is ecologically manageable.

Best in class

Code resuse...FAIL

Nonetheless, its survival predicated alone on its modularity was and is the weapon SteveJobs used to ' rev.' past the competition and while on a line count basis the language reuse fails.

The same can't be said for ' Obj-C' reuse-ability which enabled Apple to repurpose its software systems on innovative hardware implementations. WIN-WIN

Thou dost protest too much...

Cynicism parading as intellect...

Freedom, Privacy, Internet

Pick

2 out of 3

Get it wrong you == LOSE

FAIL: reading the case file on the CHP officer + family murder-by-mfgr ' key==OFF', ' brake=ON', 'trans==NEUTRAL' and 'throttle==OFF' ALL FAILED. The only thing that worked was the electronic control 'WOT==WideOpenThrottle' AND 'FloorMat==Recall' BOTH effectively killed all manufacturer problems.

Building humanity into everything that you do is a worthy life endeavor, building human touches into objects people can appreciate, building bridges that people need beyond products are touchstones that are the marque of SteveJobs.

Generations will pass before its accepted and understood what SteveJobs ' designed' after products mimicking feature failure after feature failure trying to replicate Steve's ' products' are similar but remain lacking and unsatisfying...products - which fail for reasons, primarily in conceptualization.

Seeing ' exactly' what is needed AND such a solution which does not exist, is SteveJobs legacy. Jobs ' vision thing' was not about product...it was about " soul". SteveJobs wanted to answer the simple question whether its possible for ' objects' to have attributes of human values, qualities and virtues.

Bold user 1+ yr and RIM consumer since 7230 version BB here to tell you nothing has changed in those years. RIM are still _the_ clear win-win choice for 1) communication 2) expediency 3) reliability. Specifically, the hardware works you can hear callers, they you and dropped calls are not what they are famous for unlike the competition. Connection is the watchword with LED notifier built-in to the handset. Reliable as even the 7230BB remains in working order after laying it down to rest for an iPhone fantasy that lasted 6mos. No service matches RIM push technology, sorry Apple fandom et. al. it just doesn't compare. Nor does anything come close to BBM for telepresence staying connected.

RIMM fucked up. The orig poster aptly states like desktop publishing before it, BlackBerry missed the golden opportunity leaving others to deliver the promise of corporate command and control communications in the palm of your hand. Smart people know a good idea when they see it even though they aren't an IBM or .gov

1) Airbag provides only an additional 5% safety efficacy from fatality over a 3-point seatbelt
2) Severe disfiguring and disabling injury from auto accidents now come from airbag deployments
3) Airbags were never designed for use in conjunction with seatbelts

So...you finance over 5+ years a safety device which at best works as intended in 5% accident situations. 95% accident situations expensive safety device can easily main, disfigure and disable you. 100% of the time seatbelts are redundant safety system. Yeah...you're paying for those over the life of your loan too.

...US telecom is one X-normous pinball machine. Consumers, balls-in-play are holding traps, channel surfers, network managed nodes and billing bungled dupes all for a pitance EntryFee guaranteeing a couple years of fun for all

No shit Prius literally drove over into my bike lane trying to run me over on my roadbike! WTF...it's been 12 years since I had a redneck play that game with a pickup truck.