7 - 10% of the population are left handed (wikipedia), but that doesn't stop almost all handed tools being right handed only.

I think that companies would be prepared for 5 - 10% to be overlooked in the pursuit of new TV/home entertainment/3D-DVD sales...

"There is at present no way to contact the individual"

Well he should have thought of that before handing out all those phones for free!

The content industry plays lip-service to the issue, they insist that there is a public domain but when every work is at least life of author plus seventy-five years or so there is in reality no public domain from my life's point of view.

The answer is to instantly kill anyone who makes a really good movie, or a book, and then just patiently... wait...

On your rocking chair on the porch, with a happy, knowing smile on your face.

...and champagne was invented by pro-magnum man.

When it gets to 777 all users will have read/write access to the files!

I do. My Mac Pro has an ATI and nVidia card. Works nicely under OS X. The windows drivers however shit themselves so I'm only able to use one card.

Why wouldn't you want to be able to mix and match cards?

I'd be hesitant to dump waste where it could harm other life (even if it is deep see vent based).

You would need to survey the ocean floor to see if there are other areas where it could be dumped - my guess it that there would be plenty of places. The ocean is a very big place; there are a lot of plate boundaries (thousands of kilometres) and most of it is very dead indeed.

But even if it was feasible, PR problems (as another poster mentioned) would be the biggest hurdle to overcome.

I thought one of the major selling points for Solar was that it could be IMBY (or rather, On My Roof) which increases decentralisation and decrease transmission losses.

Most houses will never produce enough solar power for their own needs, but for some it has a useful education value - people see just how much power they use and may moderate consumption.

Couldn't it be dropped into a undersea subduction zone, where the tectonic plates meet?

Circulation of very heavy metals at the deeper locations is going to be almost zero and there's no (?) biological activity that could bring it into contact with our biosphere...

Hopefully they can find a way to do the best of both worlds in the new version once it finally gets up to snuff.

Personally I don't want to watch up to snuff movies, thank you very much!

Your talking about the music store formally known as Price.

Now the music store is known as Nice, and has no DRM.

The various music companies finally allowed them to sell unencumbered songs after 1. allowing Amazon to sell them unencumbered, 2. forcing Apple to accept tiered pricing.

Why did I buy it? Because it's a good phone, and I like it.

I do have 9 full fingers, and I can use it with my shorter finger quite easily.

In fact in some ways it is a better way to use it - hold phone with thumb & middle finger, shorter index finger is good for scrolling and doesn't get in the way. Like to give it a go? :-)

My post was about the irony of finding documentation labelled "Fingertips" when I didn't have as many as most. It was a -joke-.

I lost a fingertip in an encounter with a circular saw.

Later I bought an iPhone, and the documentation was titled "Fingertips".

I've also used a fingerprint reader to try to log into a friend's computer - it said "too short", so I can't blame SteveJ for everything.

I do hope that multi touch input does consider people who have less than full dexterity/digits, but somehow I suspect there are another class of people waiting to be left behind.