I have a tablet to surf the web, watch video, read PDFs, etc. I want my phone to be portable; I want to use it to do those things when I'm in a hurry, or confined places, or in places where it would be unwise to pick up a huge tablet. It must be portable, I must be able to use its screen single-handed, on the subway for example. I can't use the whole screen of a 5 inch phone single handed, not comfortably at least. The iPhone is actually too small, and too restricted to be useful IMHO.

Now, you want a fully featured, 5-6 inch phone; when the Note 2 arrives, you may get what you want (or, if you want it even bigger, look at the Galaxy Tab 7.7'', its simply amazing as a tablet and works as a phone as well). I want a fully featured, 4-4.3 inch phone. What are my options now? Just the Meizu MX 4-core, and its iPhone-like OS and resolution mean I won't buy it. Where can I find a smaller, quad-core phone with hardware and software similar to the Galaxy S3?

Yes, that's the point. Form factor is subjective, each person likes something different. However, hardware isn't subjective. Why do I have to choose between a good form factor or good hardware? Why can't I have a 4.0-4.3'', high DPI AMOLED screen with quad core CPU and good GPU? Because right now, you can either have top-notch hardware OR the form factor that was considered "high end" just last year.

And what about hardware keyboards? Or flip smartphones? You can find them, yes, but only with sub-par hardware, and most are from last year and still running Android 2.x. Is that "catering for the users' needs"?

My case isn't as extreme as that. I have a Galaxy S2, and before getting it I thought I'd find the screen too big, but it actually fits my hand very, very well. I can write a quick message while walking on the street using a single hand without any problems. That size (4.3'') and below works perfectly for my hands. It also fits well in my pocket.

I used an HTC Titan (4.7''), and I hated it. The screen is big enough that, to type single-handed, I need to place the phone uncomfortably over my fingers, not my palm. It didn't work for me.

Now, if I look at the market, all the phones I'd consider an upgrade over the S2 have gigantic screens. One X, Galaxy S3, Optimus 4X, all are 4.7''+. The only quad-core phone under that size is the Meizu MX 4-core, with that weird screen resolution and weirder iPhone-like OS.

The point is: there is a market for different form factors than the current trend, and the manufacturers aren't listening to it. You want an Android flip phone. I want a smaller screened phone with all the bells and whistles. Some people want a good-spec'd phone with a sliding keyboard. Others may want a BlackBerry/Treo/Nokia E71 form factor. Or even something like the Nokia E70. We used to have options when we went shopping for a high end smartphone; now the options are "an iPhone, or an assorted variety of huge-screened Android slabs" (or Windows Phone, but that's not an option anymore until WP8 comes out). Why can't the manufacturers give us the choice anymore?

s/saving/killing/

Floppies?! The first digital camera I had (a Kodak DC20) had a megabyte of fixed storage, and that was it! We could fit 8 493x373 pics, or 16 320x240 ones! No fancy flash or LCD, either! The only way to get the pictures out of it was through a slow, serial cable at ~50 kbps! At the time, we WISHED we could use big, fast, portable floppies!
Now, kids, get off my lawn!!

That's exactly why I started with "Elop says".

Use the full equation:
E = (mc) + (pc).

If p=0 (p is the momentum; so if you're at rest, p=0), E=mc.
If m=0 (the case for photons, for example), E=pc.

If neither p nor m are zero, E = sqrt(E0^2 + (pc)^2), where E0=mc^2 is the rest energy.

They are reviewing their own paper to make their methods clear. FTFA:

"Dario Autiero of the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Lyons (IPNL), France, and physics coordinator for OPERA, counters that Contaldi's challenge is a result of a misunderstanding of how the clocks were synchronized. He says the group will be revising its paper to try to make its method clearer."

Meaning: Contaldi didn't understand how OPERA did it, and thought they had commited a somewhat stupid mistake. OPERA says they didn't make that error, and that they'll rewrite that part of the paper to make this clear. In other words, this is not news at all.

No. As others said, the Tevatron is just the last stage of a chain of accelerators, one that was used (nowadays) just to collide high energy protons and antiprotons and "see what's inside". The neutrinos come from the previous stage (called "Main Injector"): they used to take a few protons off the beam, collide them into a target in a very well defined direction, focus the muons that come from this, get neutrinos from the muon decay and measure them near the detector and in Minnesota, to get an idea of their oscillation (and now, also of their speed). The experiment that does this is called MINOS, and it doesn't depend on the Tevatron at all. Actually, shutting down the Tevatron will help MINOS: they will get more protons, therefore more neutrinos and more data.

By the way, this is exacly the same general arrangement used by the OPERA experiment (the one with FTL neutrinos), where the neutrinos are produced in CERN and measured there and in Gran Sasso.

Unity is a shell built on top of Gnome 3, so it's impossible for Ubuntu to "drop Gnome" and keep Unity. Their plan is to remove the Gnome-classic shell and replace it with Unity-2D, as you can see on the roadmap; and looks like the plan is still going on.

Just to give some scale to the show's ignorance, a Level 6 Nuclear Accident is something like the Kyshtym disaster, where 80 tons of highly radioactive material were released into the atmosphere. Level 5 Accidents include Three Mile Island and Goiânia, where 250 people were heavily contaminated and 5 died from the direct consequences of Cesium-137 exposure (without counting cancer victims, miscarriages and children born with severe problems). Most Level 4 Accidents actually caused at least some deaths, so the classification of Fukushima at Level 4, despite official, may be a bit premature.

As far as I can tell, TFAs are about the SECOND blast, which happened on reactor 3 of the plant. NHK has nothing about a third blast. Am I missing something? Was there a third explosion, on reactor 2?

s/Corel/Coral/, obviously.