And "in theory" cheaper, more compact(not much), more reliable(from the seldom snafu putting a proc in or mounting a heatsink), in addition to being potentially faster

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Not that I am advocating kindles, but the cheapest kindle is I think $79 now, the price of perhaps 5-6 new books. If the pricing of books shifts to favor the reader with amazons efforts then the kindle would pay for itself. There are trade offs of course, such as not have physical copies, but you also have your entire library with you.

Geiger counters do detect ionizing radiation, but do not differentiate between isotopes, hence they are not useful for spectrometry.

I use ancestry.com from time to time, it is best used for researching your ancestors, by which I mean those non living. The US census data is delayed by ~70 years so very little info on anything in the past 70 years will come up. I have been able to track back to 1500 AD on several ancestors on both sides of my family in ancestry. In my experience census data is key, and maiden names, you will notice that it will quickly become impossible to determine maternal ancestry past a certain point.

your arguement only holds true for any event where the artist/host venue is not hoping to make the real profit on the alcohol, food, and souvenirs. The people who originally sell the tickets make money off of the greatest number of people entering their event, scalper sell tickets at an artificially inflated price, that not as many people are willing to pay, nd the original seller in the worse off for it for making the investment in the venue and performers in the first place.

Im playing a flash on my laptop right now and its running just fine, TFA is a conspiracy by Steve Jo

Thank god that human females cant do this yet, otherwise none of the lucky few on here would ever get laid.

Necessity is the mother of invention. Our race will at some point in the future develop a source of energy that makes what we can produce today trivial so that we can manufacture whatever type of substance we need. Until that happens they may be wars for resources, countries may be wiped out merely for their natural resources. Even past that point, our ability to produce relatively huge amounts of energy from some future technology will cease and the cycle may repeat itself.

I foresee that in the very distant future our descendants will have the technology to build stars for energy, an extremely refined fusion technology or some tech that is centuries/millenniums beyond our current capabilities. The rate of growth of our technology is at least directly proportional to the rate of growth of our population, the more people that are alive the more opportunities that exist for discovery and advancement.

Humans will survive to some extent short of some intentional trying cause extinction or a planet leveling event. Our numbers may greatly decrease but as long as we can produce energy we can create the conditions however limited to carry on.

ipad = 6 months barely, I agree with coldwetdog while still sharing the sentiments of JonySuede.

Microsoft and Apple have market caps something like 220 and 260 Billion respectively, and apple looks to have made profits in excess of 15 billion in just the last 2 years, http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/07/20results.html. This could just be Adobe trying to spark an interest in Apple to look into buying them. I think that it would have some potentially positive effects, mostly that there would be the king of creative production suites. However, flash would most certainly be killed off which can be taken different ways depending on you camp. If MS acquired Adobe there is again potential for a comprehensive software suite, gosh I wish you could merge acrobat and word.

Self-indulgent, possibly in certain respects, religious zealot, nope. I do not understand how this has become a matter of 'peer pressure' for you. I have taken fire from people who are very similar to yourself it seems, since I first got a mac for myself. If I conformed to what you think of me then I should be using windows 7 if I was going for 'peer approval' that is. Using macs for my family makes my life easier(and my family's).

Now I'll add to the fire, I use and iphone(big surprise, I know) have an iPad and use an airport extreme. In many respect Apple products make my life easier, but I'm not so naive as to not recognize their limitations.

My router to the internet is a wrt54g with ddwrt, I only use the aebs as an access point and to use time machine wirelessly. Back to the self indulgent remark, yes I spent a nice bit on my mbp, but there is no way in hell would I pay for another mac just to use it as a htpc. I use ubuntu and boxee(i
I did not force anyone to purchase a mac, I moved them to what was an easier to use system for them and easier to maintain for me, I did not want to have to learn a new operating system just so that I can support other people. I have setup a system that requires virtually no maintenance short of hardware failures(yes my mac is not indestructible, apple's superdrives in the early mbps are shit).

This is not a perfect system, there isn't one but this is the best I have come up with for my family.

I suppose one could argue that the only reason that heart disease is above cancer on the list is because we are 'curing' cancer in enough people now that their hearts are giving out before cancer rears its ugly head again. I have no number in front of me so that is just speculation.

To build upon the post above mine, something has to kill us or rather something has to wear out. I imagine that if treating cancer becomes a semi-trivial procedure and people start taking better care of their hearts then all the research is going to go into brain disease. Eventually we will have a increasingly large elderly population that is mentally incapable of taking care of them selves, based on my family history the only thing I have going for me is that the men die ahead of the women but if I do live long enough I get to look forward to Alzheimer's, but i cant quite remember how long that is.