Oddly enough, my iPhone 6 Plus does exactly this even still with these updates. Randomly drops down to a low percentage or shuts off outright. Seemingly the only thing these updates have done is make my phone run like shit.

Currently you are correct about there being wide swaths of the workforce who can't work remotely even if they wanted to. Eventually though, we'll have remotely controlled surrogate robots that we can control from home to do any physical task that we can currently do ourselves. These machines will be stronger, faster, tireless, and have better reflexes than us. It will be a boon for the disabled and those who do dangerous work, but also a slippery slope as there will be the potential for us all to become shut-ins.

The Bruce Willis movie Surrogates dealt with this theme. Although it's science fiction now, sometime in the next few decades the technology will be there, and it won't be so fictitious.

I haven't bought a BluRay in about a year. It's not because the movies are on NetFlix, it's because most of the crap that's come out in the last few years isn't worth watching more than once, and hence isn't worth owning. The last BluRay I bought was The Princess Bride (which I already owned on DVD), because I watch it over and over again.

Sadly, the days when movies were compelling enough to keep watching over and over again seem to be gone. DVD and BluRay sales are dying as a result.

No, he spends a shitload of money promoting himself and boosting his own ego and sense of self-importance

How many Courics in a shitload?

Perhaps someone could invent a way to modulate a data signal into something that would fit onto a voice channel. Then your phone could call that device and use this voice link for data transmission. Surely one day such a technology will be invented.

Yes... some sort of MOdulator/DEModulator. Now all we need is a catchy name for it.... (sorry, my capslock got stuck)

Or rather read his autobiography 'Ghost in the Wires' to get a first hand account of how he managed to successfully change his identity and evade the authorities.

Given that he was arrested, convicted, and went to prison, can we really say he was successful, ultimately?

It is the height of political correctness to even suggest that liking guns and shooting them is something that needs to be "cured," and as a gun owner, this offends me to my core.

Everything eclipse based got hit with that when Oracle rightly changed the vendor property of the Sun jvm to oracle, afaik checking that did not even make sense since both version and name of the jvm have their own properties . Sadly no programming language can protect you against stupid programmers, any attempt will be dwarfed by the world producing better idiots.

Speaking as someone who is an Eclipse committer, your representation of the situation is not accurate.

Sun's JVM has different proprietary options than other JVMs. It also has this notion of PermGen space that other VMs don't have, where various classloader stuff and other things can be stored. Run out of space there, and the JVM blows up.

When you have a Java application like Eclipse that is really big, it's not hard to run out of PermGen, especially because the default size is so paltry. So, the Eclipse launcher needs to be able to modify this size of the PermGen. However, the special command line option to do this is proprietary to the Sun JVM, and if you pass it to someone else's JVM it's common for that JVM to refuse to run because you gave it an option it didn't recognize.

So, Eclipse has to:

1. Check which JVM it is launching with.
2. Is it the Sun JVM?
3. If it is, pass PermGen options

How do you propose checking #2 without checking the vendor name of the JVM?

Maybe you should look into things more before you call a bunch of experienced, professional, open source programmers stupid idiots.

If somebody could get Android 4 running on it, these things technically should outperform anything else in it's price class.

In theory it will run Android apps already if you repackage them into .bar format (not something your grandma will do, but doable for geek types). The problem is that they run in a shitty emulator that likes to freeze or crash a lot.

US: I cast... magic missile

China: Why you cast magic missile? There nothing to attack!

Even the Cell, the most widely deployed non-standard architecture ever, was only used in the PS3, and was more trouble than it was worth.

I think you are forgetting about the Roadrunner supercomputer which has 12,960 PowerXCell processors. It was #1 on the supercomputer Top 500 in 2008. It's still at #7 as of November 2010.

For one thing I would be worried about bringing back up who knows what with organisms and bacteria that we have not seen before that could be dangerous

Yeah seriously... haven't they seen The Thing? Luckily Kurt Russell and Keith David are still around to protect us.

Take a closer look at the base of the figurine. Recognise it?

That will teach me to not RTFA and just go by the summary. The figurine clearly has an Apple logo for its base. However, the summary and article both make it sound as if Apple is suing over Steve's likeness, not the use of their logo. So, you can understand why I found it all confusing.

Umm... what right does Apple have to sue over Steve's likeness? Shouldn't suit be brought by Steve himself rather than Apple? Did he sign over rights to his likeness to Apple?

I could see it if perhaps the figurine were based on a copyrighted image owned by Apple that contained Steve, but unless he's in a very specific pose or something it might be hard to prove.

Next thing we'll see is Apple trademarking Steve altogether and using him for their logo...