Lucky guess. He had a 1 in 7 chance of being right, and pulled it off.

Lexmark sucks.

But the company would do much better I think on a whole if they go rid of Jobs. His moronic ideas of company doctrine will eventually kill the company. Anyone for a vote of no confidence?

Let me check Apple stock price and get back to you.

I did a fair amount of research on Toyota and the Prius when I was buying, and here are my conclusions:

Sludge had been a problem in some engines in the early to mid 2000s, but it is not widespread.

Hybrid batteries have been very reliable, have a 100,000 mile warranty--and very few have been replaced even after that period. Those few that have failed prematurely have been replaced at no cost to the consumer. What more do you want?

And the out-of-control thing (which as not even on the radar when i was researching last summer) is still not sorted out, which is why this discussion is even here.

Just sayin'.

You sat in one in an Auto show, and that qualifies you to say these things?

I own a 2010 Prius, and have for 8 months.

It will shift into neutral at any speed, like any other car out there. You need to hold the shift paddle in the neutral position for a few seconds, no longer than it takes to maneuver a mechanical column shifter into the neutral notch. The delay is a feature, not a bug...it keeps you from inadvertently shifting, just like the need to pull the lever on a column shifter toward you in order to shift it.

And furthermore, shifting into neutral at highway speed will NOT destroy the engine. If it could, then the standard manual transmission could not exist.

Um, the cameras on these units are not hidden. Just not obvious at first if you don't know its there.

Faced with the choice of destroying the engine or crashing into a highway barrier at full throttle, I'll gladly take crashing into the barrier in order to save the engine.

Oh, wait...

Pedal-based emergency/parking/hand brake is not a new-fangled Prius thing. They are extremely common in America, in any automatic transmission car larger than a subcompact in my experience. My parent's 1970s land yachts had them, too.

I think you referring to the Lockerbie Bombing, Pan Am Flight 103. But yes, PETN was involved, though it was a time bomb in baggage in a baggage compartment, not ready-mixed by an individual in the cabin.

Apple got into the music business alright, some 25 YEARS after originally taking on the Apple name for a tiny garage-based company in a business that at the time seemed very unrelated to selling Beatles music. And ultimately Apple Computer PAID an undisclosed sum (translation: a boatload of cash) for the right to use the name in music marketing. Apple and Apple did have an agreement prior to the most recent one, its just that Apple Comp eventually grew out of it, and it had to be settled again, and indeed it was.

Actually, Apple DID grab a very related trademark: the iCal name was already in use for some time by another software calendar maker, Brown Bear software. The Brown Bear software site now explicitly states http://www.brownbearsw.com/ical/icalfaq.html that Apple is using the iCal mark by license, and brownbear is still selling their own product with the iCal name. All without benefit of any headline lawsuit that I ever saw.

The "but my electricity does not come from a coal plant" argument is moot. Every power plant's output gets pooled into the electric grid, http://www.eere.energy.gov/de/grid_architecture.html , so there's no real way to precisely account for where "my" electricity comes from.