I agree, I think their advantage right now is they have an ample supply of people willing to work at low rates just like the U.S. did during the industrial revolution. Eventually they will start expecting more and the difference will decrease. Their government surely will try to stop it but I think history shows that eventually they will have to give in. But their investment in infrastructure is very wise as a country, though some of it may be for show more than practicality. When they do start to lose their low-end jobs to the next cheap labor country they will be well equipped to handle a more advanced industry. While nobody can just say "I love all things China", it's fascinating to see it evolve right before our eyes. The big question on the minds of all of us is what will they do with all this strength once they're done?

Very impressive. IIRC, one of the main reasonings behind not putting in high speed rails in the U.S. was that the U.S. is too rural and sprawling, making it difficult to do in areas other than the southwest and northeast coasts. The fact that China seems to be able to do it with such a high volume planned makes me wonder if this is even a real issue. Anyone?
I'd think there's a lot of money to be had in high speed rails around here if some lucky state (Kansas, you've done it before with low speed and nobody cares to visit otherwise) in the middle of the country started a high speed hub, and convinced other large cities to start attaching.

Precisely why this is a non-issue and nothing for people to rag on Apple about. This article shouldn't have even made it to Slashdot. It's just another forum to people to complain their pirated and pre-hacked versions of OS X aren't working on unsupported hardware.
If you want a Mac, buy a Mac.
If you like getting software running on hardware it was never supposed to be on, congrats, you now have a challenge to fill your day.
If you just want to have a Mac without paying for a Mac.. I have no sympathy for you.

Apple did not "Kill Support" as there was no support to begin with. You can't kill something that doesn't exist in the first place.
They broke the unsupported hacks that were allowing people to use Atom processors. There's a pretty large difference, even though some people want to keep blaming Apple for this. Intentional or unintentional, they're not killing any support.
I'm sure it's only a matter of days until somebody bypasses this anyway.

It has both a 32 bit and 64 bit kernel included IIRC.

I know it's up in the air wether this is appropriate, but it's the truth with most software: You purchased a license to use their product and media from which to install it on your computer. You did not wholly purchase the product. Their license states among many other things, that it is for use on approved hardware only. As the law stands currently, it's their right to do so. Also, running OS X on these machines is often less than ideal. Apple spends lots of time and money on fine tuning hardware and software to work well together in the end product they sell to you. A company like Psystar is going out and selling a product that may have most the elements of a Mac, but will not have the same QA put into it and I don't believe Apple wants to be associated with any bad experience an end user may have. If it weren't for these licenses, the products themselves would eventually cease to make money and, inevitably, cease to exist. If you can find a better way to keep a product from being pirated, being misused, duplicated by a competitor, yet still be profitable.. morally, the software industry needs you. And I think it's also relevant to state that most, but I'm sure not all, hackintosh-style machines are using pre-built pirated copies of the operating system anyway. This isn't just breaking the EULA, it's also just stealing in general. If you spend many a late night hacking around trying to get Apple software to work on your unsupported hardware, you obviously think it's a good product else you wouldn't waste the time. A company that has employees that make a great product deserve to have the money to reimburse their employees for creating that product.

It's really just for the chance for people to bicker about their choice in operating system. I am a pretty big mac fan I'd say. I have a small business that's a member of the Apple Consultants Network. I have 2 Vista machines (one for gaming, one for the girlfriend) and 2 Macs (One server for my business, and one laptop shared between personal use and my business) in use currently. I'm not going to count the numerous old machines I have in the house.

The Mac vs PC debate has been around long enough some people are so entrenched in it, they'll never try the alternative platform. These people are only limiting themselves. If you don't like the platform, fine, but that's no reason to bash the user. If the user dislikes their platform, be a responsible geek and help them either get to know it or help them find what works best for them. As part of my work I evaluate businesses that wish to use macs and, sometimes, as much as a mac fan I am, I have to tell them it may not be the best option for them. It's rare but sometimes it will just require too many changes at one time to make it viable.
My only complaint with any of the common operating systems is that Linux clones Windows too much and should try to move away from that, but that's just opinion.

This is really the issue. The Apple logo has serious power for a trademark. Even the slashdot apple haters can spot an apple logo with their eyes closed. This trademark is incredibly important to Apple. If this was to not be applied to electronics or online media distribution at all, I doubt Apple would have any issue with it. But I think wether or not you could confuse the two is more a matter of opinion, mostly driven by if you want to see it or not. I don't know what's in the kool-aid you all are drinking today, but it's obviously meant to be an apple. Wether you're going to cross your eyes and actually see the same thing in both logos isn't the question. Since it's an apple, Woolworth's should (and most likely will) just settle out of court saying they will not be applying that logo to electronics. Problem solved, everyone's happy. If Apple let it go on and eventually got slapped on electronics the issue will be much harder to resolve and can result in weakening the power of the Apple trademark.

I typically don't find myself bothered by travel time anymore other than to a few locations that are very far from a town that I can port to from Dalaran in WoW. The area around blackrock mountain can be the worst. I assume if people actually needed to go there much these days they'd change that. All it really takes is informing the developers that enough people would like it changed to make it worth their labor. Other than some vanilla wow content, no flight path seems to take over 5 minutes. Most of that time I spend either chatting with other players or doing other things around the house. It's also nice outside sometimes, you know?

Before buying an iPod I hadn't bought or stolen music in years. I'm one of those apple fanatics many people ridicule around here. I bought a 1st generation iPod mainly because I was impressed with the technology and the lust factor. After doing so, I've bought more music than I have before in my life, both CDs and apple's DRM'ed .m4p files. I've only upgraded iPods because I want the storage space for files from my job, just recently going over 5GB of music, mainly from Apple Lossless imports from my favorite CD's. If ITMS stopped carrying the artists I like, I'd probably have to start "borrowing" CD's from friends and importing them. DRM can't hurt mainly because if I can hear it, I can capture it. Apple deserves all the money they can make from the iPod, very few people buy ipods so they can buy music from iTMS. It is usually the other way around.