My wife and I use our iPad box as a random box for gift giving. It's the perfect size for a lot of our gifts and disguises the size of what's inside. It also gives the recipient a brief "HOLY SHIT!" moment before they realize it's not an iPad, it's something else inside an iPad box.

Keeping it because it's beautiful is just dumb, though.

As trustworthy as ACs usually are, I doubt that a "token woman" would make it to VP level.

Is there any way you could email me 50 cds with this story on it? My Grandma would really appreciate it.

The AC would have a point (it would still be a terrible one btw, relieving human suffering is noble regardless) if it weren't for the family planning work that they're doing. As it is, it's a clear bias against a man who has committed the majority of his wealth to philanthropy.

Only on a slashdot discussion of bill gates would you find someone finding fault with curing diseases.

You, sir, are a magnificent troll. The only question is whether that's your intent or not.

Maybe for the student version.

So it'll do everything the Livescribe pen does, but with a tablet? Sounds like the tablet's superfluous there.

There are problems with the American system, but this isn't one of them. The organs have to be transplanted within hours of being harvested. Steve Jobs was willing and able to travel thousands of miles at the drop of a hat to get there in time. It's not reasonable or feasible to do that for everyone.

Prohibiting him from getting the organ equally makes no sense. It's based on need, so he was the one with the most need who could get there.

Most companies use their internet connection to process credit cards don't they?

There have been proposals for networks with directed signal where you have either a receiver in something like a light fixture or a few throughout a room. It would be harder, but for speeds like that it might be worth it. The other thing you could use it for is to put it on the roof and point it to a receiver on a pole for last mile connections. Easier to maintain than a traditional wired connection, although hopefully it would be strong enough and wide enough that a bird or swarm of gnats wouldn't take you down.

I agree with you. There's a lot of room for improvement between those two extremes.

I assume that's because Intel uses their video chipsets to augment their processor market (basically creating a low end market). AMD and nVidia both have a large portion of their revenue tied up in video cards, so they can't risk it even though they probably should.

Sure you do.

You need to read the summary. When they say offline, they aren't referring to the internet, they're referring to your OS, ie you have to restart to apply the update. Just like Windows.