Go ahead; that would be great. Of course, as you need to actually build working devices based on those things you see in the films, I'm looking forward to seeing the FTL drives, intelligent androids, force fields, etc. you'll be releasing as products to the public.

That's kinda where my analogy falls down. Still, my point was that 4G was an approved and accepted technical standard with agreed upon limits, capabilities, and properties - until the marketing staffs cried when they were told that the latest generation of their companies' fastest phones where still running at 3G…

For anyone who cares, Edison's Conquest of Mars is freely available in various ebook formats at Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19141

The iPhone 4s in the US on AT&T uses one of the technologies that AT&T calls 4G. The 4S on Verizon and Sprint doesn't use what those carriers call 4G.* I'll be surprised if the new iPhone, whenever it comes out, doesn't use LTE.

All right, let's have that discussion. I expect Apple will do two things with this technology: they'll use it to make biometrics unobtrusive, natural, and easy to use; and their implementation will be so intuitive that within a year their competitors' laptops will employ it, or a variation of it - all the while…

End result is the the same. "The company reported a record fourth quarter revenue of $18.06 billion, but did suffer a net loss over the last three months of $492 million."

Or, you can enter "ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi" in the terminal. If it returns "firmware-abi" = <"EFI32"> then no Mountain Lion for you.

My post-credits scene idea is the discovery of the Botany Bay by a Kzin exploration vessel. Why not tie-in TAS?

You've missed two big points here: the majority of brand new android phones aren't being sold with ICS, and the majority of android phones in use aren't being updated to ICS. That is why ICS adoption is moving so slowly.

I'm not surprised that a Siri search for "When is the next Haley's comment?" wasn't answered correctly. The question makes no sense.

To be fair, the Blackberry should be included in this comparison. RiM still has four times more U.S. smartphone market share than Microsoft does.

Re 8: CGI should be a seasoning for a movie, not the whole movie - unless you're Pixar. For example, in Terminator 2 when the T-1000 did cool things like walk out of the truck fire, reform up from the hospital floor, or reverse its face, the movie audience was impressed because it was in contrast to the "reality" of…

I know, right? I mean, who can even understand those ugly iPhoto albums represented as books sitting on shelves with pictures on them, and using pictures of paint brushes and pencils to represent editing tools, and a calendar app with days of the weeks in seven columns, just like those old-fashioned things on…

You left out the:

I've said it before, but the one thing that has disappointed me about Eureka over the years is how they morphed Carter from a highly-respected US Marshall to village idiot. You don't get to join the Marshall Service by being average, or even just above average. The bar is raised higher than that - at least on paper -…

Which was my final statement: as with other devices of this design, users soon give up on the keyboard and propped up position, and just use the stylus and screen. What you have then is yet another tablet, with a manufacturer provided screen cover.

From a design standpoint, there are only so many ways to prop up the screen on a laptop with removable keypad. From a usage standpoint, this particular solution to the problem has a history of failure.

I guess Cook will shut down the company and give all the money to the stockholders, because Apple's products are no longer wanted by anyone, anywhere, anymore. Three million iPads sold in a weekend? Passe. The Surface is selling more than that every hour, as we speak. And the Air? It's powered by a cliched movie…

I bought one used back in the mid 90s. It ran Win 3.1 great, and the only real downside (besides the weight and the clumsiness of trying to use it with the detachable keyboard) was the one hour battery life. Sold it when MS orphaned it by not releasing a version of Windows 95 for PEN Computing for this system.

Microsoft has re-released the Compaq Concerto from 1992, the first tablet that ran Windows.