I think Steve has been asleep for the past decade or so, here a few services that we spend 99% of our time on and don't own: Ebay Paypal Webmail Webdisk / Webstorage Photobucket et al YouTube Facebook, myspace et al Netflix We don't own squat...

Facebook like many websites social or otherwise, became famous out of necessity. The product it delivers is outstanding no doubt, if you haven't seen the movie you should, true it has many inaccuracies but it makes you realize what people are really after, online. The fakeness is a perception, the website is really massive and will only get bigger. JMHO.

I was watching the broadcast live, very exciting indeed. The description of the events sounded like it was real-time when in fact there is a delay, however they react and comment based on the transmission they received, I did head something curious "we would steer Curiosity if ..." which is impossible, they can't steer, curiosity steers itself mainly because of the delay.

I dumpted TV three years ago, I have a TV screen on which I play NetFlix or other services, I watch what I want, not what the mainstream media wants me to watch. NetFlix has a very nice variety of foreign films, comedies and documentaries. No commercials, I stop and resume when I want, who needs a DVR??

So if I don't play farmville I'm a suspect?

If you are writing an article about this, you need to get some training from human resources otherwise you will get yourself in real trouble, even if you think you are doing the right thing or saying the right words. In essence, men and women interact differently with each other, HR will say that gender is not relevant, that sex jokes should not be told regardless of gender, but the truth on the ground is different. So take a trip to your HR department, if you don't have one, grab a book.

powerful and x86 are oxymorons. Try the i860 architecture now THAT's a processor, it's ancient I know.

Ban buckyballs but not jaw-breakers?

I think you would be disappointed, the broadcast video would arrive in HD, perfect colors, video and sound, would look too much like a sci-fi film, people would believe this landing even less.

So when you rub your hands together, it's air compression that is causing heat?

Nope it's a power cable - ZAP! Power cables should in fact look like POWER cable. Power has no business disguising itself as USB especially at home!

Tablets as they are today are not and will never be reaching devices, they are media devices, period. A true teaching devices is one that has a monochrome screen and a blinking cursor.

In theory your fed reserve note comment makes sense, in reality it would be impossible to implement now, not only the mass population uses those notes, the rest of the world does as well.

This behavior is typical of human species, they gather somewhere (myspace), then get bored, go elsewhere (facebook), get bored again and go somewhere unusual (google+) and then go back to see what happened to their friends (myspace) and the cycle re-starts again....

What is this compatibility thing all about anyway? Who cares? Most people who use word processors don't upgrade their software or OS to that matter. People don't upgrade, they buy a new PC with a newly installed OS. That's my opinion and observations.