I used my Apple PowerBook G4 (Titanium) for about 6 hours a day up until the latest iMac landed on my desk. I replaced the battery about three years ago since the old one gave me less than 2 hours of juice. The replacement is still good for four hours of careful and casual use. I have had a few start-up problems over the years but that is not a hardware issue and I upgraded the drive, so it is not the original. The laptop has flown thousands of miles, been in a car accident, usually stayed on for weeks at a time, and I still use it. Other the paint wearing off the corners, I can't complain. I hope Apple isn't encouraging replacements by lowing the quality. Getting almost tens years out of a computer is one reason I'm am a loyal customer.

This is similar to the technique with lenticular foil on the screen. The problem these guys have had it knowing where the viewer is situated. Eye tracking helps. Does this technology avoid those problems? A comparison of the two would be quite interesting. I can image that a small handheld device avoids the problems in that the user positions the device in the right place.

By the way, we generally are only seeing 3D through stereoscopic vision in the near field. After 3 meters, it doesn't bring anything in real life. Anything that uses the stereoscope difference to look 3D is a simulation to project it into the area where we can see it.

I don't see why they don't just stick the Wii-remote on a pedal and use the motion detector to calculate rotations. Then anyone could use any exercise bike.

Maybe with this device, the effort corresponding to steepness of a hill, could be set from the Wii but then you would also want gears to compensate, but then it all gets too complicated, so I doubt it.

CA PATH did a proto-type in 1994. The charging system adds about 800 pounds to the car. The costs, decreased mileage from weight not to mention inefficiency make inductive charging as in the Palm device unrealistic for cars. One needs other, better technology.

I don't see the big deal here. If you like Eneloop batteries, you'll like have you device charged when you buy it. Also, the Pre shows how wireless charging works, so one can power the device in the package without adding anything. Apple patents the idea and Palm can't use it to demo their wares, where it could work today. If wireless charging ist just around the corner for Apple, then we might see this happen, otherwise this is just some pipe dream.

Personally, I don't see much difference to what the EnOcean Alliance have been offering for years now.

Wasn't Apple the first mainstream computer manufacturer to use USB for their keyboards and mice? It wasn't the standard solution of the time, nor was Firewire, SCCI, or DVI. Apple's non-standards are not all propriety standards, sometimes they are just ahead of the curve.

That said, I can't image Apple eliminating their dock connector. If they put USB on a device, it will only be for charging and not data transfer. Expect a silly adaptor...

Create the 25 hour day, so people have more time to work and shop. (Easy to do by refining the length of a second. Just think of all the new clocks and watches the the world will need.)

The EU is doing a good job penalizing monopolies. That MS chooses to act as they do it their choice.

Back to the history: Netscape used to sell their browser. MS gave IE away as part of the OS. That ruined Netscape. Who would pay $50 for something that you get free. Now that the browsers are free, the market can choose based on quality, but all browser development is paid for by someone other than the consumer (IE from Windows sales, Safari from Apple products, Chrome from Google ads, Univeristies for open source). Netscape had to earn money to survive. They tried to survive by making authoring tools. MS responded by making sure IE was incompatible with these web standards in order to ensure that web authors coded for IE, then used by the majority of users. Netscape went under. AOL wasn't able the change things. If the EU wasn't involved, I bet that IE would be integrated into Vista and running another browser would be very difficult. Also, IE was incompatible with web standards in order to ensure that web authors coded for IE and other browser users had problems.

As many users have said, OEMs will offer at least one browser. (I suspect those pre-loading IE will get bonus credits somehow.) Those upgrading still have their old browser which should run on a unpgrades system like most other software. The reality is not so stupid and the theory.

Apple is probably the only reason MS doesn't have a complete monopoly and therefore a reason that MS was not broken up. MS supported Apple with $ and software (IE, Office) without which Apple may not have survived. Strange to support a competitor until you look at the costs of being a monopoly under watchful eyes.

In the long run, I am not sure that the infrastucture (fiber to the house) for information should be any different from that for phsyical goods (roads). Having multiple infrastucture backbones costs more than having one and these costs probably outweight the benefits of having redundancy.

At the end of the day, the services provided with the infrastructure is what is important and must be freely usable. The US Postal service as government sponsored doesn't get to block competitiors from using roads that are provided from the gevernment.

I also don't mean to imply that private companies have no business providing infrastructure, it just might make more sense to have ownership of the infrastructure controlled at a local level, like the roads.