This ThinkCentre is to the iMac as Roseanne Barr is to Heidi Klum. It's teasing me in the way an annoying 10 year-old does just before I smack him with a baseball bat.

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Should "of" paid attention in English class.

No one in their right mind would suggest that you can have innovation in a world where people don't have ownership of any of their ideas. Patent protection is a given and Palm benefits just as much as Apple does. The only issue here is whether Apple has an enforceable patent that Palm has infringed.

None of us are qualified to decide that question because we don't even know what patents Apple thinks might have been infringed. Apple clearly does not think it owns capacitive multi-touch or "touchscreens with powerful processors" because it hasn't gone after HTC or BlackBerry or Samsung or others. It is ridiculous to say that Apple's actions have stymied creativity in this market because it is obvious that Apple's entry has had entirely the opposite effect.

There is a vast body of patent law that has developed over hundreds of years which does exactly that. A lot of you need to go and read up on what qualifies for patent protection. Apple couldn't get a patent if what they were trying to patent was not inventive, had already been done by someone else or if their patent was overbroad. And even if they did get such a patent, it would not be enforceable. If Palm has infringed on a patent that is enforceable by Apple, then anyone who appreciates the technology they use and wants more, should see the value in the law protecting that.

I don't understand how people who like gadgets can condone patent theft. If you want cool gadgets, you have to make it worth people's while to develop gadgets. Companies assemble teams of clever people who come up great technology that all of us use. You might not like the iPhone but no doubt there are other products you do like. If everyone could go around making money off stealing other people's ideas, those who develop the ideas themselves wouldn't be rewarded for their work and the ideas would dry up. Meaning none of us would get cool products.

I don't know if Palm did steal Apple technology. It certainly seems so looking at their product. But hopefully we all agree that if a court decides that they did, Palm should be punished. Otherwise, innovation is doomed.

Not only no stereo mic but no autofocus in movie mode! Unless they've changed the way the image stabilisation works, that won't come close to a Camcorder either. Then there's the matrix metering only. This is no competition for a decent camcorder imho.

Canon 450D without a doubt.

You're suggesting there's corruption in America? Noooo, that only happens in Africa.

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The human leg does have elastic properties! The human leg is 3 times more efficient at storing energy than the Cheetahs are.

And more information:
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/sports/20070514_RUNNER_GRAPHIC.html