There's lots of those apps ...been there for years.

I personally use this one: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touchpad/id297623931?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Use your phone or iPad as a multitouch touchpad for your PC.

Yeah but I think people are forgetting that in the end the software is everything. iPad has 100s of thousands of tablet optimised apps whereas Android has thousands at best (and most are very poorly thought out). iOS also is much smoother than Android and Windows 8 when it comes to animations and responsiveness which is key for a touch screen interface.

I'm sure the Asus Transformer has better specs on papder than the iPad but the iPad has better UX and software (IMO). Plus the retina display is amazing. I use my iPad for reading (Safari, Flipboard, Facebook, Twitter) most of the time so the display quality is more important than Mhz -- especially if the apparent performance and responsiveness is better.

Yeah I know. There's a market for tablet keyboards but I really think it distracts people from understanding what a tablet is best at doing. It should have the easy of a smart phone (just grab and use -- no setup, not desk, etc). If you're constantly changing its configuration it won't have the unmeasurable thing that makes using a tablet a pleasure IMHO.

I'm a big fan of having multiple complementary devices. I do my data creation and productivity/developmennt work mostly on a notebook. I read/write emails, txts and browse the web on-the-move using my iPhone. I surf the web, watch videos and play games in my living room or bedroom on my iPad. They're all complementary devices and I would never think that one could completely replace the other since they're all physically very different sizes with very different performance characteristics.

Exactly. When you buy a bicycle, don't complain it doesn't have A/C and triple exhaust!

People who won't buy a tablet until it has a keyboard don't actually realise what they want is a normal notebook because they can't envision the use-case for a tablet (at least until they own a decent one).

I found the difference in email etc to be huge as well. Fonts just look amazing at high DPIs. I think we've grown up so used to crusty blocky looking fonts that we forget what they really should look like.

Our goal should be to make screens that, one day, are indistinguishable from looking through a window into the real world.

AC was much better for transmitting back then because transmitting high voltage is more efficient (less current means less copper and less resistive waste) and they had an efficient way of converting high voltage AC to low voltage AC (transformers). Efficient high voltage DC-DC voltage conversion was not something that was possible back in the day.

DC is actually more efficient for long distance high voltage transmission -- they just didn't have the technology to convert DC voltage. Now days HVDC transmission for new long distance lines is much more viable.

The vast majority of HDTVs use HDMI input. HDMI (at its basic level) is electrically the same as DVI. A simple DVI to HDMI adapter or cable will cost you peanuts and you can get a 1:1 picture from your PC to your HDTV. Just make sure that you've adjust the TV to not do any zooming. A lot of HDTVs will "zoom" in the picture a bit because some older broadcasts had overscan borders. Turning off or lowering the sharpness filters, MPEG reduction and other post processing will make your HDTV look pretty much like a huge computer monitor without any of the quality loss you're used to seeing.

If it is constantly sucking heat energy away from you then it will feel cold. Your body doesn't feel cold from the cold but rather from change in temperature. Metal at ambient temperature feels cold because it conducts the heat away from your body more efficiently than wood for example. This device must be efficient at sucking heat away from your body in order to generate electricity.

Actually you're misinformed. QT uses the native API (uxtheme.dll on windows etc) to do drawing of widgets so that they are drawn like native apps. That is pretty much the same thing Swing does but QT is much faster! There's no way QT could move to native widgets for real without break backwards compatibility (the features related to drawing would have to change quite dramatically for example).

Use Spy++ on a QT app like Skype if you don't believe me.

Some foreign nations decided to create a new state in an area. They were able to do this because of their immense military power

Not unlike how some foreign nations decided to create all those arab nations in the middle east. Haven't you ever wondered why those borders are so straight?

Not sure if you're ignorant or just joking but for those reading: Israel was the second country in the entire world to have a female prime minister (Golda Meir).

Well actually it is possible. Nazism was killed as a mainstream idea in Germany through total warefare to the point where the people just weren't willing to support it anymore. Just as Hamas's extremism can be replaced with a more moderate and willing to negotiate Fatah.

Believe me, with all the revolutions around the world, screwed ideas can be put to rest if they are suppressed and broken for long enough for the people to realise that their livesand childrens' lives become so much better under another idea.

Weird. Just copying "evil:%" into the clipboard and right clicking on the URL bar in chrome does the same thing.