If it's TWICE as popular as the Zune, Google/Apple/Nokia/Palm/etc still have nothing to worry about. :-)

Deprecated is a commonly used term in computer science / programming.

Actually, the e readers will probably become more useful as we age, since they can adjust the type size dynamically. I figure every 10 years or so I can bump the font up one size on my kindle. At which point I will be 90 years old and reading 72 pt. font on there.

Except that libraries loan out CDs and DVDs too, so those ten people could have ripped them for their own use at home, thus creating 10 more copies.

Sucking at math is not limited to the BBC. Why, just yesterday, I was eating my Stouffer's© Macaroni and Cheese, and on the back of the box it listed the serving size as 225g, with "about" 2 servings per box. The net weight was 340g, which comes out to approx. 1.5 servings even. My Daily Plate would have been about 160 cals higher if I had just been lazy and told it I ate 2 servings...

1.5 != "About 2"

My $5 wal-mart charger will stop charging my AA batteries when they're full, surely they could do the same thing with a nuclear battery charging a LiIon...

From TFA: Another important feature is the new SMP (Symmetrical Multiprocessing) guest support with no more than 32 virtual processors. That's what I care about more than opengl/directx. I just want to be able to run sony vegas / windows encoding apps without being throttled to a single core.

I think they stopped shrinking the tab width quite a while ago. Now the tab bar just scrolls side to side. It makes everything readable (as much as it was with only a couple tabs open), but you can't see all of your tabs at one time. So, no, my tabs are not 20 pixels wide.

Were you talking about Millipede?

As opposed to the jetpack you use while planted firmly on the ground?

If the trains come every 5-15 minutes, it's not really adjusting your schedule much (especially if it nets you a 20 minute train ride instead of a 45 minute car ride with traffic congestion)

Not to the speed of light it won't

Yeah, turn off the stupid Vuze interface and go back to classic. No billboards, just the downloading and seeding panes with a menu bar. I couldn't stand the new UI either!

Since it runs on every platform that supports java? Since it has useful plugins? Since taking up 1% of my CPU and 300MB of ram to seed 10 torrents doesn't bother me much on a quad core with 4GB of RAM?