Read the original article. The tech/art was already developed and in use - at Apple - before it was ported to the DiamondTouch by folks who had viewed Apple's tech.

My morning routine used to include saying, "good morning" to Lily and giving her a peanut when she said "good morning" back. One Saturday, after a late Friday, I wasn't paying close enough attention when I reached into her cage. I still have the scar across the knuckle on my right index finger where she opened it up…

Neurotic, yes, and vicious. I owned an AGP for years, and had a similar experience with it learning to call my dog. The goal wasn't amusement; it was to lure him within range of its beak. I kept the bird's cage away from the other pets for their protection, not for its.

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According to the US patent office, 1) you cannot patent just an idea, and b) to receive a patent your invention must be thoroughly explained and documented so that someone else would be able to make it.

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 -…