I would have loved to see someone ask him a question about how much extra money the authors will be receiving due to the fact that the Kindle's DRM destroys the "first sale principle" on e-books.

Considering that you cannot re-sell a Kindle book and can only "lend" it to the (at most) handful of other Kindle users that share your account, Kindle sales a massive boon to Author's Guild members. There's no such thing as a used Kindle book store. There's no such thing as a public Kindle library. There's no distribution cost. Hell, there's not (currently) even a typesetting cost, as the Kindle doesn't handle the kind of fancy typesetting that makes some printings art in and of themselves.

The sheer amount of extra cash that publishers and Author's Guild members will get due to these issues dwarfs by probably an order of magnitude any lost "book plus audiobook" sales. The greed involved here is stupefying - I'm starting to think that there's something just completely frakked up about the thought processes of the creative class. Considering that the majority of them are probably cocktail party social democrats makes the hypocrisy even worse. Wear the Che Guevara t-shirt but if you even THINK about interfering with my ability to squeeze one more dime out of the 47th re-pressing of the 12th edition of my greatest hits, I'll sick my pack of lawyers on you.

Did you?

"Motorola has successfully demonstrated several of these applications on streets along the Chicago River while driving at speeds beyond 50 mph and while riding Chicago’s famed elevated train."

Unless, of course, you're assuming they're driving an elevated train down Lower Wacker...

I think it sucks, but according to Infrant employees, the diskless box went from $650 with an optional $199 3-year warrantee extension, to $850 with a default 5 year warrantee.

The box didn't change, but the warrantee did.

Given that Infrant itself only lasted 5 years (before being bought out by Netgear), that 5 year warrantee may not look that hot...

Justin -

Where on Amazon can you get a free Blu-Ray remote and 6 discs? As far as I can tell, the 5-disc offer is the only one around, and nowhere do they throw in the remote as part of the $499 price.

Erick,

You forget that media companies aren't the only "copyright holders". The developers of Linux and the various GNU toolsets are copyright holders too - of the Linux and GNU software. It's just as important for Tivo to respect the copyrights of its technology providers as its entertainment providers - more so, as the tech underlies their entire business. You could theoretically have a (somewhat useless) TiVo that didn't support DRM (for watching YouTube or other online media), but you can't have one without software.

One of the motivations for the creation of GPLv3 was specifically TiVo's use of GNU tools to create locked-in software. Lookup "tivoization" if you want to see the arguments against it.

Finally, whatever version of Linux and GNU that TiVo is currently using is copyrighted under GPLv2 and will remain so licensed FOREVER. All TiVo is losing is the ability to get new GPLv3-licensed code or patches - nothing prevents them from using and maintaining the version of software they're currently running. That's the beauty of open-source - since TiVo has the full source code (and has modified it in the past), nothing really has changed.

If TiVo doesn't like the fact that a new graphics driver (that they get for free) is GPLv3 and thus can't be used by TiVo unless they abide by its copyright, boo-freakin-hoo. Write your own driver, hire a firm to do it for you or bite the bullet and agree to the terms of the license.

Believe me, TiVo undoubtedly licenses other software and tools to build the TiVo interface that have license restrictions far more onerous than GPL - they probably use tools where they have no access to source code at all and have to hope that the vendor keeps developing it or even still exists in 3 years.

Slim and sexy vacs? I guess Adrian's bringin' SexyVac...

I'm bringing SexyVac
Them other boys don't know how to vac
I think they're special, I've got quite a pack
Go round and round while I pick up the slack (cord)

Take it to the fridge

Dirty rugs
You see the mud stains
Maybe some dead bugs
I'll let them wait for yet another day
Then all my vacs will come upstairs to play

Take 'em to the trash

Come here dirt
Go ahead, be gone with it
Come to the vac
Go ahead, be gone with it
ASAP
Go ahead, be gone with it
Afraid of me?
Go ahead, be gone with it
Let me see where you're going to
Go ahead, be gone with it
Clear plastic traps
Go ahead, be gone with it
You make me smile
Go ahead, be gone with it
Go vac'in' child
Go ahead, be gone with it
And get your vac'in' on
Go ahead, be gone with it
Get your vac'in' on
Go ahead, be gone with it

Repeat

After you "cease moving", these various heart implants can have some unpleasant surprises for your friends and families:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0612270306dec27,1,872594.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

Basically, when you die, the pacemaker or defibrillator implants think of it as just another cardiac event and start shocking the heart trying to get it working again. Dead patients start jumping over and over again, and the electrical jolt can actually shock relatives who may have been holding the dying patient.

Gotta love that technology - it refuses to give up the ghost!

Your comments: You should also check out the SoundMatters FullStage HD, which is a steal at $599. http://www.soundmatters.com/fullstage.html

It separates the speaker bar from the subwoofer unit. The subwoofer is pretty compact, but because it's separate, it makes the speaker bar that much smaller, while giving you a bigger deep bass sound than the tiny subs in the Yamaha and Polk speaker bars.

CNET reviewed it here: http://reviews.cnet.com/Soundmatters_MainstageHD/4505-7869_7-31694572.html?tag=lst