Hey, Top Gear was once upon a time a motor show - before anyone who actually knew about cars left to form Fifth Gear. Jeremy Clarkson is an ASSHOLE who some how thinks its cool to mock people, to denigrate other cultures, which his puny brain has no ability to comprehend. Its a comedy show or the equivalent of the Sun tabloid on the BBC with a few exotic cars as the page 3 model.

Being able to repair and able to recycle need not correlate.

With increasing level of integration, and cramming so many devices into such small packages, means that you need very specialized manufacturing process.

One the advantage of the micropayment system being touted here is that if you don't like a book, your upfront payment is lower.

But on Amazon and others, for many books you can get a preview format, ie the first couple of chapters of the book, for free. If you like it, then purchase the book.

Also, this type of payment system would only work for books which are essentially linear or self contained in small sections.

I have never really understood why many Americans are so hostile to unionization. There appears to be decades of brainwashing in action and mythos regarding correlation between hardwork and financial success.

Which computers do IBM today sell into the consumer market?

IBM is primarily a service company today, and the hardware they are selling is to the corporate and govt market,

Because there will always be some one capable and willing to do the work for less.

You only have to hang around /. and see attitude of multitude of people to unionized workforce.

Neither do I need to using Win7 and Win8. I also have a 3 year old Macbook Pro running Mac OSX Lion. Its now giving me problem, the Finder will often freeze, force close and relaunch does not work and I'm forced to reboot. This almost happening couple of times a week. My Lenovo T420S laptop (win7) has not been rebooted in over a month, I just close the lid, hibernates and restarts without issue.

Hey this is a great sales pitch for RIM and Nokia

Samsung says their phone are Crap, Apple says they are not any better, but our are better!

Prior arts are patents also, and they may not have expired.

Let Google engineers go do Prior Art Search, or lookup prior patents and start developing in those area.

Even better is that Google keep a history of such search results performed by their engineers.

When they are sued for patent infringement, and asked to handover the search results, it would be fun to watch.

As an engineer, the advice I have always received, "Do not do any patent or prior art search". Leave that to the lawyer. Avoid getting tainted. Avoid doing what Samsung been caught doing.

Not good example, about two-thirds of all new cars which have ABS, it is from Bosch (or licensed from Bosch) who hold some of the original patents in this area. So, if looks like often good ideas get adopted and patent holders benefit.

But it will always come down to money. Think of a future where some parents could not afford certain gene "remodeling"! What ethical impact does that have on those parents, the children involved and the society at large. At present, we almost all accept what what we are born with is act of nature or natural selection. But in the future it will be an active choice. Will it be ethical that a child should blame a parent for the choices (or lack of choice) that a parent made, often through inability to have access to such treatment because of cost. If you thought the problem of parents not being able to afford expensive designer clothing for their children or the latest fashion trainers or a short lived fad was bad, then think what the equivalent impact it may have when such "treatment" is more widely available.

Do you have a citation that SCO was proxy for Microsoft or that Microsoft had funded SCO litigation?

So $5-$7 for a DVD movie, $15-$16 for TV series is not good value? How low does it and have to be? Zero?