Just to nitpick, Vimeo works perfectly on iPhone and, in fact, has an iPhone optimised interface.

As an aside, more people should develop their site to work on an iPhone first, then scale it up. It forces you to decide what it *actually* important on the site. If it isn't needed on iPhone, why is it needed on the full version?

Except for the fact that H.264 is hardware decoded on a lot of mobile devices.

Upon researching, apparently the initial run were prone to problems, and it was fixed after a debacle of a recall. Presumably mine was either manufactured after this, or fixed. As for heat, just depends on the efficiency....

How about this for a radical solution - we let the people who want it have it, and the people who don't, don't have it?

Oh, oh, and I know. The government could provide software to do that that people could install on their computer...for free!

Like the Australian government has been doing for a while now. No one used it.

You know, it's always amazing when governments say 'The people want this', and they try to make it mandatory, but end up compromising politically and making it optional...and no one uses it...so a push happens to make it mandatory.

Hey, dumbasses, I think we just figured out how many people actually want it. People might claim to want it, but they either are a stupidly vocal minority, or they are factually incorrect about their own desires.

We're about to do the same thing with health insurance in the US. Granted, at the same time, we're demanding that insurance companies allow people to purchase health insurance that they outright excluded until now, but there's a reason healthy people aren't buying health insurance...it's an insanely horrible scam that no one wants any part of unless they are already very sick.(1)

Sometimes ideas are just stupid. Sometimes the citizens, despite people saying 'This is what citizens want', are smart enough to say 'Thanks, but no thanks'.

1) I just know that someone is going to take that the wrong way, so I will say a) I am a Democrat, b) I am someone whose preexisting condition means he can't buy insurance currently, c) am for health care reform, and d) know that requiring people to buy health insurance from the same monstrous companies that kill every year approximately 1/10 the amount of people that cigarette do is going to be so incredibly unpopular that the Democrats will be lucky if they're not fucking lynched. Democrats: Always willing to shoot themselves in the head as long as both they and the Republicans bipartisanly pull the trigger.

4'x4'x4' sounds like a large enough space that even Kevin Smith would fit.

Well, if you want any semblance of battery life, you do...

who is a husky, but chilly rock star supposed to fly with? Get a band bus. It's a lot easier to smuggle your drugs onto.

And now it has been said.

This is the number one reason that obese people are obese. They believe this statement. Carbohydrate and sugar are synonyms. They are the same word with the exact same definition. The medical, health, and government into thinking exactly what this poor sap believes.

http://www.google.com/search?&q=define:Carbohydrates

Considering you can get a 27" at 2048 x 1152 for $450 right now, I'd save myself the $1000 or so and just get something like this.

Nice false dichotomy. My response would be: C) Feel sympathetic for them because they have been conned by the health industry, medical industry, and government into thinking that an all sugar diet and starvation are the keys to being fit.

"I hope you're stuck between 175 kilos of hypothyroidism and 200 kilos of big bones."

I'm not even sure what you are trying to say by that. Are you just wishing bad health on me because I don't believe that the human body is a perfect heat engine? Or would you want me that big because you think fat people are evil, you believe I am evil, and you want an easy way to identify me as evil? Or is there some reason you would want me to be that big that doesn't point make you a scum bag?

Ha! I was thinking the same thing. (And double points for it being not just some random fat dude, but Kevin Smith. The more time he's stuck waiting for a flight the less time he has to make movies.)

While I will admit that the enterprise support offered by the big providers is great, I would image that if apple were to start marketing to businesses, they would roll out that level of support really fast.

That being said, by the time you are large enough to have 80-100 mac users in addition to windows users, don't you have hot spares? You shouldn't have to wait 3 weeks for a laptop because you just take it to IT and they swap it for a spare from their inventory and then send your old system in for service (to become another spare system when it gets back)

I have.

Plug a set of speakers in, connected an S-Video cable and the AC Adapter, disabled screensaver.

Watch Hulu and Youtube videos on a screen significantly larger than my laptop's, so I can sit back and enjoy the first week of being in my new apartment (Cable company came and hooked us up to the internet on the same afternoon we moved in, which was amazing).

It's one of the draws to a compact device -- knowing you can carry it from room to room and show videos.

Depending on the setup, I could see this as being useful in an educational setting -- give the teachers a lightweight device that they can check out from a central repository (the media center at my old high school comes to mind), and something to project images up to. When they're done, check 'em back in, or chain them down securely to something that's immobile.

Instead of those boring laminate slides and the plain overhead projectors, you could have something that can be colorful and interactive. It could certainly make Biology much more interesting, for example.

If a device like this catches on in an educational setting, you could end up with lots of applications that can save money in the long run.
Virtual dissection for biology class, anyone? Can't object so much to cutting things open when there's no formaldehyde smell (note to self: if this app happens, create a formaldehyde scented diffuser for that "Real Dissection Smell"...).
No? How about 3D rotatable molecules for chemistry classes to help visualize what's being worked with?
No? How about a visual math application, helping people who are learning the basics of algebra visualize how you get from one point to another when using it? I know I could have used it -- I nearly failed Algebra the first time, because I couldn't make it make sense in my head until someone actually started drawing some of it out for me.
I'm sure that there are a boatload of other suggestions that are out there, too. Make the device and the necessary gear to set it up in an educational environment affordable, and I'd dare say there are schools that would consider running a pilot program to see how much it boosts education by, at the very least.

But alas, I ramble too much and feel like I might be preaching to the choir. :)

... someone do Wii boxing with a laptop.

I suspect he made this primarily because he is Ben Heck, and this is the kind of thing he does. Nonetheless I can't help but ask "what is the point".