Americans were too fat...

The difference of course is that 3G actually works in Europe...

A colleague and I tried coming up with spectacular ways to die... the best we came up with was to superglue your right hand to the top of your head. Then tie a long rope to your feet, and the other end to the top of a skyscraper.You then make a noose out of a shorter length of piano wire..

Throw yourself off the aforementioned skyscraper...

You should end up cleanly decapitated, upside down, holding your head in one hand!

yeah.. intelligent discussion...

[picks up beer and moves away]

...It's funny that HP are using an apple to cut a cake.. especially as HP are so renowned for their 'cutting edge' notebook design, come on.. really... they are still putting ports on the rear edge of the machine f'christs sake, and hot venting on the underside..

If they'd beaten the apple air to market, then that's innovation, otherwise it's just another 'me too' product. Asus are innovating, so are google and apple. Hewlett, Microsoft & sony are just chasing rainbows.

The firewire circuitry is huge, costs more and is therefore more difficult to put into laptops.

Firewire offers much more than firewire, such as easy networking, you can easily boot off a firewire drive (even in windows), genuine daisychaining, and the data moves without tying up the cpu (Unlike all USB formats), and you can raid firewire drives.
If you're just using a printer, you don't need firewire. If you are using USB for moving video or using an external hard drive then you definitely wasted your money.

Horses for courses.

You can use a Lada to pull a caravan, but it's not the best vehicle for the job.

Firewire always has the edge.
With USB all the data has to pass through the CPU, whereas with Firewire it doesn't.

USB has never ever achieved the promised speeds.

more Microsoft 'innovation'?

that t-shirt is from river island.

I wonder if it can manage longer than 1 day on a full battery charge. My N95 doesn't.