The moto xoom will be $800, with all the bizarre tweaks noted above (like the wifi requiring a cell contract), and there's no certainty it won't be locked down in the same way motorola phones are. In addition, it isn't even released yet- let's actually take a look at something before we recommend it. Also, trusting Motorola not to intentionally obsolete your gadget within a year is optimistic considering their past behaviour.

Automated diagnosis by what looks like a yahoo cartoon. What could possibly go wrong? I know that doctors these days rely on a host of expert systems, but issues of malpractice, misdiagnosis, and just plain bad bedside manner mean this is probably a bad idea. Doctors are already complaining about people attempting to diagnose themselves.

Sony moving the goal posts regarding products and services people are already committed to? surely some mistake.. That said, the summary states 'sony have announced' whilst the linked article says 'rumours of', so take the misleading summary with a pinch of salt.

Based on what they've managed with Bing? Probably not. besides, I don't want *cool* webmail - I want short loading times, high uptime, and the ability to access my mail however and whenever I want. If Microsoft had done that when everyone and their dog had a hotmail.com address, there may well never have been a gmail.

..but I suppose we do have hi-def films, DVDs, CDs, cutting tools, holograms, spectroscopy, acne cures, hair removal, LIDAR, surgical tools and the barcode scanner. Which almost makes up for it.

Agreed it's a useless summary - but the humble indie bundle has been widely hyped, penumbra is part of it, and it's linked right there in the summary. If anyone out there hasn't played it, I highly recommend giving penumbra a quick play through- it's genuinely one of the scariest games I've played since Dead Space, and worth throwing a few dollars to charity for. All of the other games in the bundle are due to be open sourced, too - I'm looking forward to getting my hands on the back ends of aquaria and world of goo.

Funnily enough, I did exactly the same thing with quake, and my geography teacher was kind enough to give me an A4 map of the school site. I couldn't have been more than 13 at the time, but all the same I'm fairly certain that would never happen today.

There's also the issue of copyright on the interior of buildings; as the Manchester Cathedral controversy with resistance:tFoM shows, just because you *can* set your levels anywhere doesn't mean you won't get sued out of existence for using it. Which is sad, really.

Because in sexually reproducing organisms, chromosomes are diploid (ie, they come in pairs) - half come from each parent. Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome ) has the basics largely correct.

Accurate, and correct. Although it's not (or shouldn't be) an ISP's job to police what goes through a phone line.