I must be dense, but I'm not seeing how this is going to help in making TVs and projectors. The diode-pumped green lasers we already have are not that expensive (about $100, I think), so they would not add much to the cost. The real problem seems like it would be brightness: you need a really bright laser to scan over that large 54" area and still remain bright to the eye. But the green lasers we have are already plenty bright. I think it's easier to get a bright "fake" green laser diode than a bright red one.

There are two reasons why the IBM PC was cloned: because Compaq reverse engineered the BIOS and you could buy the OS from Microsoft. If someone would reverse engineer the Mac BIOS you could legally make the hardware. You'd still have to violate Apple's license agreement to install the OS, though.

Just a random thought, why haven't we been bashing Intel on this? Sure, it was Microsoft which intentionally mislabeled things, but who pushed them? I would think Intel should be at least somewhat culpable on this, since, from the emails, they obviously knew what they were trying to get MS to do... Maybe inciting a crime, or an accomplice?

Am I correct in saying that the theory of evolution asserts (among other things) that new species are caused by random mutations in existing species? If so, it seems like the major point of contention is the random part. I doubt anyone would disagree that mutations of species produce new ones (that's kind of the definition). It seems like the only debate would be are the mutations random, or directed?

Is the claim of randomness falsifiable? From what I've seen, everyone just assumes that the mutations are random. Has anyone investigated to see if they are? (Honest question; I don't know the answer)

The problem with Windows is not that window drawing is done on by the client. The problem is that no event can be processed without the wndproc for that window looking at it first. So if the application isn't processing events, the window can't move. X does it a bit differently in that you only receive events you request. Most X apps probably aren't interested in processing the move event, but if it does process it, I'll bet you'll get a similar effect with X.