They are not. They just have neural models of the same "complexity." Its like a big bucket of neurons firing off. They dont have the structure down, the interworkings, etc. There's no cat in there, just something as complex as a cat brain, which isnt saying much. No need for sensory inputs as they would be useless.

Ah, another conservative intellectual I see! You just want Bush back, dont you. Lets ignore that 90% of what Obama has been doing is cleaning up Bush and the GOPs mess.

What? Apple isnt running OSX and paying the Mac Premium. They are engineers not teenage girls.

I doubt their coders magically know Cocoa/ObjC because they may use unix/linux. If they want to code this for android or winmob then it would be trivial for them to do so.

The sony fanboys still havent learned from their massive market loss. People just want to buy a console. They dont want or need a bluray player. If they did they tend to want a standalone, and will buy it on their terms. Sony's plan to bundle the bluray has only raised the cost of the console and chased off buyers. Now its just too late to do anything about it. Sony has cemented itself as an anti-consumer company with its tactics. I'll take MS over them any day of the week.

>PS3 - $300 - includes wireless internet, blue ray, free online play = $300

You can add in a breadmachine and a foot massager into there if you like. It still doesnt help sales to bundle things people didnt ask for and then claim it gives you market superiority.

Millah: but does that mean they are ALLOWED to? No, unless Apple wants them using the software they built.

Screw that. Its my computer and my hardware. I should be able to sync whatever the hell I please. Its just incredible how anti-user rights some people are. All the bending over backwards for "corporate rights" which screw us over is ridiculous. How about you assert yourself instead of rationalizing anti-consumer policies?

No, in fact theyve been putting these chips directly on the surface on the brain for a while now.

The latest hotness is moving chips of the back of the eye and trying to interface with the optic nerve:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4411591.stm

Thats not guaranteed at all. Who knows if the SSD market will explode and if the scales of economy will ever make them competitve with mechanical drives. Considering we have 50+ years of engineering, manufacturing, and marketing with mechanical drives, I doubt SSDs will ever match them in price.

The real question is how much more can I expect to spend on a SSD? Right now we're not looking at 2x or 3x but over 10x the price for roughly less than twice the performance.

Perhaps they will come down and stabilize at 3 or 4x the price. That will attract geeks/gamers/enterprise but not budget OEM builders. Im very interested in SSDs, but we just arent seeing the price drops this year and probably not next. Perhaps they will be the defacto standard in 2012 or 2013 or so.

>>The fact that most people do not know if they are running the 32 or 64 bit version of Vista.

"Most people" never install and OS. They get the OS their computer came with. Joe Sixpack will never use this chart. Anymore lame excuses?

1. We need a "mark all mail as read" button. Im floored I dont have this basic 1992 mail client functionality in my modern smartphone.

2. We need diffs of updates. 300megs to patch the SMS vulnerability? Thats 30mins on my DSL connection.

3. We need some basic consumer protections. The government needs to regulate the app store. The idea that I cant get Opera, gvoice, or full slingbox because Apple and AT&T say so is inexcusable. Double so when Im paying a whooping 30 dollars for data. BB customers on AT&T get all of this, yet the network hasnt collapsed.

4. We need support for other video sites like Vimeo and Break. Considering the players are all flash based, I cant see this being a big deal, unless its another bandwidth concern, which is in itself inexcusable.

5. We need more battery life. I'm happy with a thicker device if it had 2x the battery life.

6. Developer license for $100. How about a free one just to put apps on my own phone and a paid fee to publish. This would stop most jailbreaking too.

7. More liberal policies in the app store. This ultra-moralistic ultra-conservative take on censorship is shocking from a company that promotes itself as an altervative to the mainstream.

What? No.

Antennaes are rated by gain. Adding more length doesnt work, you need a better or directional design. The wavelengths are only so long, so just adding cabling is going to help.

Your laptop most likely has a long square antenna around the LCD. If you need more than that then you need to move to directional like this:
http://www.hawkingtech.com/products/productlist.php?CatID=32&FamID=58&ProdID=307

Sure, you'll get more db but you'll need to carry a little dish around. Even then, if the signal is marginal to begin with or is experiencing a lot of interference, then it might not help.

The antennas in laptops are a pretty good compromise. You shouldnt be so quick to whine.