So wrong on tablets fading. I work in an enterprise and we're developing financial reporting apps because of executive demand. I expect tablets to displace much computer use for the typical user, and a number of our people already travel with a tablet instead of a laptop.

Matlab? What the hell business uses Matlab on a line user's machine?

If you have a basic spreadsheet, word processor, and browser you cover 75% of most business users' needs. Add in presentation slide show maker software to cover another 10%.

Linked to a credit card, I'd imagine.

No. Sorry. Not going to happen even if it means I never play another Blizzard game again.

Um, we're the number one manufacturer in the world. Still. And by a large margin. Latest numbers I can find easily are from 2007. We made 1.8 trillion USD worth of goods and China did just over a 1.0 trillion.

Our HP laptops used to come from Guangzhou. We've been told the new models will come from Guadalajara. So, there's an example for you.

I lived in Baltimore. They usually made things worse, especially during the morning rush.

AT&T has made you look like a chump. Apple, certainly, but you personally as well. You gonna let them do that and not react to it? A competitor to AT&T for the iPad and iPhone might take the starch out of their shorts. Think about it.

So use another distro if you object.

Die. Die. Die.

Lotus 1-2-3 has an unassailable market position! Now please insert the master license disk from your copy of 1-2-3 and Press Any Key to Continue...

We can't upgrade large parts of our corporate network to IE8 because SAP and Hyperion - two very important tools - have told us they won't be supporting IE8 for a few months. In general, I think you should support the latest and the version just before that.

Not really. fewer ads in a Hulu broadcast might be worth more as far as the depth of impression made. If you watch "Accidentally on Purpose" on TV, you might watch it because you like Jenna Elfman and think the show is funny. Or, you might just happen to be killing time between "How I Met Your Mother" and "The Big Bang Theory". Neilsen can't tell.

If, however, you watch Accidentally on Purpose on Hulu, it's because you want to watch Accidentally on Purpose. The ads that are targeted to that crowd are more narrowly and more properly targeted to you the Hulu viewer and shoudl be be more valuable per impression.