Between A5 and its creator, Steve Jobs, who had to audacity to impress his own memory engrams on the new chip. Due to his ongoing "personal issues" the chip became unstable and slaughtered its opponents Motorola, Samsung, and RIMM. Jobs will remind A5 of how great they both are before playing dead and waiting for HP to join the fray...

Jobs also made a point of sending his regards to Captain Dunsel. AKA Steve Ballmer.

You have a unique negative outlook on this. OK, maybe not so unique.

See here: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014751898_shuttledecision13m.html

The trainer/simulator is one of a kind. People will be allowed to walk through it. The real Shuttles will be on view, but not allowed to be touched. I'll grant that people want to see the real thing, which is why the Museum of Flight wanted one. They didn't get one, but that's no reason to be negative or unhappy about what they DID get.

For the Museum of Flight's new space wing, which is pretty much finished, with an available space for a Shuttle. But instead the museum will be getting a full fuselage Shuttle trainer. In a way this is actually better. The Shuttle can't be touched. However visitors will be able to go inside the trainer. Just as every astronaut who has ever flown the Shuttle has done.

There are other aliens on his list, so this is fair game. First they created an army of super robots to enforce justice in the form of the Manhunters. Then they created the ultimate weapons and power sources in the Green Lantern rings and power batteries. And never underestimate the social engineering skill it takes in building an organization made up of hundreds of races, genders and species in the Green Lantern Corps.

Because those who can, do. Those who can't, litigate.

"You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment."

Well, actually I can, and I agree: "Americanizing" House of Cards will ruin it completely. It would be like making an American version of Doctor Who. Some things are just too sacrilegious to even consider.

That must be why Congress voted to cut funding for earthquake monitoring and tsunami alerts just this week. Nevermind the fact that an event even larger than the one is Japan is possible along the Cascadia Subduction Zone. This region stretches from Northern California to British Columbian. A magnitude 9 event here won't give the US coast the 6 - 9 hours we had this time. It will be more like minutes.

As ever it seems the Republicans are penny-wise and pound foolish.

I'll give you an example. The model predicted a wave amplitude of 2.5 meters for Crescent City, CA. The observed amplitude was 2.47 meters. I'd say that's pretty good. Source: California Office of Emergency Services. It went around as an email today, but perhaps it's available on their website by now.

This idea of "Apple making it back in the app store" needs to be squashed. Apple's financial disclosures make it clear how much money they make on the App Store/ iTunes Store. The profits are just beyond break even. Apple is and always has been a hardware company. Not only that, but they're now a hardware company that can leverage economies of scale with their suppliers.

The reason the iPad is so cheap is because Apple buys components to make it in bulk. In some cases they'll buy the entire output of a supplier. There are also documented instances where Apple have provided the capital for suppliers to expand their production facilities in return for buying the complete output of those new facilities. This is easy to do for certain items that get used across your entire product line, such as flash memory. Doing this means Apple can get parts at prices their competitors can't match, and in return they can sell their products for lower prices. When you have Samsung making and selling you flash memory at a price they can't match for their own subsidiaries, you know you're doing something right. It's amazing planning on Apple's part and a testament to the faith they have in being able to deliver on their product roadmaps. Whatever Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook is getting paid has clearly been worth it.

It's one of my all time favorites too. By less far-fetched I simply mean that observing complex orbital systems makes it more "real" to me than just theoretically positing one.

For some reason I was reminded of Asimov's "Nightfall". It's sounding just a little less far-fetched now.

You're missing the point. It's not about the fanboy nerd rage. It's about the frequency of marginal "stories" that are really advertising-driven click bait. Fanboy nerd rage can make a lot of money for a site, so lots of them are posting Apple news because it feeds the frenzy. Slashdot used to not do this sort of stuff but it seems to be on the increase. In my opinion.

A review of my posting history will show that I'm not anti-Apple (really, quite the opposite) so that's not at issue here. And in spite of iFixit's teardown it's impossible to judge the *quality* of a laptop after it's been on the market for three days. Their opinion is that the one laptop they disassembled had issues. Perhaps they should use a larger sample size.

Good point about submitting worthy news, and when I find something worthy I do that. I would not consider this story worthy.

OK Anonymous Coward, that's all you'll get from me. Post publicly next time if you'd like to continue the conversation.

People click on Apple stories. People post to Apple stories. Slashdot editors, could you please pull a George Bush and just say "Mission Accomplished" already?

And then, around 1998, I stopped. Not because I started "stealing" it. And not because I started listening to streaming music. I stopped because I had enough music. Enough music to fill a 100 GB iPod. If I listened to it continuously I'd be playing music for weeks without hearing a repeat. Why in the world would I buy any more?

As it is now I'll occasionally run across an old song I haven't heard for years. And wonder why. Buying more music, especially music that isn't as compelling to me as the old stuff, would be a waste of money.

You know, you can do both... I picked one to start. And 1% of the US budget is still a lot. A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon we'll be talking about real money...

Anyway, we're drifting from the topic at hand (high speed rail) so I'll just shut up now.