What's new is that there are now true "stores" for apps... it's no longer just installer programs that let you download and install apps. CydiaStore launched just two days ago, and has a grand total of one app for sale (Cyntact, selling at $1.00, modifies the contacts app to display the contact's profile picture next to their name, when you're in the view where you scroll through contacts). The point is that there are private enterprises now hoping to make money off of this. At the moment Cydia is fairly limited -- only working with Amazon Payments -- but promises PayPal support soon, and you can bet there will be a number of new paid apps on the way.

Tried out Sumatra. I see it doesn't display text I've added with a PDF editor, or highlights I've done, or call-out boxes. Are those features not part of the general PDF spec? Either way, it kind of sucks that someone could open one of these PDFs in Sumatra and not see all sorts of commentary someone else intended, which can be seen if opening the file in Foxit or Adobe Reader for example...

I'm a huge fan of / big believer in modern medicine, but there is good reason to believe that much of the increase in lifespan is due to improved sanitation of our living environments and foodsources.

Would be interesting to see them maufacturing this stuff. I wonder if they go through the trouble of actually getting some duck liver, extracting its 'essence' or whatever, and diluting 200 times... of if they just put some sugar into pill form and call it good enough.

The difference is that no one is going to forgo some other important service because they buy the book. While people DO forgo proven and effective medical treatments because a homeopath tells them to...

FTFR: "If one looks at the content of oscillococcinum, a homeopathic alternative marketed to relieve influenza-like symptoms, the packaging states that each gram of medication contains 0.85 grams of sucrose and 0.15 grams of lactose. Sucrose and lactose are simply forms of sugar, of which oscillococcinum is nothing more than am expensive sugar pill."

Um, it does contain both .85 grams of sucrose and .15 grams of lactose, but those are only the "inactive" ingredients. The supposedly active ingredients are "200CK Anas barbariae hepatis," or heart and liver of the Muscovy duck. Whatever that is. I'm not saying I think it works (though they do have clinical data showing some benefit over placebo), but that the reviewer is wrong that it's ONLY a sugar pill.

Why the heck are you buying a wireless mouse for gaming? Terrible idea. And "backup to the hard drive" ?? What? $75 headphones? Um...

Hey guy... you're in mighty fine shape. You wouldn't want to participate in some "arts" that involve shirtless men touching each other for "sport" would you? And maybe some gay sex afterward?

- Consummate dude

And why did this suck for HP, exactly?

I think you can bet on the fact that if this was a betting exchange, the odds would be NOWHERE NEAR what they are now. It would be way less than 1% on god existing, and the trading fees would eat up all of your profits.

There are markets for betting on the Boson alone. Right now the betting is at 48% that it will be confirmed by 2011. See: http://www.intrade.com/index.jsp?request_operation=trade&request_type=action&selConID=622297 [intrade.com]