I'm from the UK. When I was a kid, my Mum used to put chocolate Christmas ornaments on the tree. On Christmas day, my two brothers and I were allowed to take them down and share them. They always were powdery and disappointing.

All Hershey's tastes pretty bad!

Not doing any more?

Domino's Pizza probably leads to a lot more early deaths than this.

Well done. You've just dis-proven the value of art.

This kind of thing happens all the time. Good businesses do not let ego, history and childish emotions get in the way of what makes good sense now.

Yes, but copyrights are much weaker than patents.

Motorola, HTC, Google, Nokia, Amazon, and a Polish grocery strore: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409669,00.asp

Then it shouldn't be a patent. It should be a copyright!

First to file yes, but not for something already in the public domain!

You are correct that the phonautogram couldn't play back, but the article said that Edison's recording was the first. No, it was the first that wasn't write-only!

This world's first is only 17 years after this recording by Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.

I'm not interested in the iPad mini. I already have a iPad 2 and if I decide to buy a 7-inch tablet it'll be something for $200 that I can abuse (throw in a small bad) without worrying about.

That wouldn't fit in to my trunk of my car. I looked to see if there way as folding bike that would fit, but even a Strida wouldn't. Maybe the Sinclair A-Bike would fit, but that has wheels the size of a roller skate.

Hey, I enjoy having to squeeze stuff in to the small compartment behind my engine, or on the passenger seat of my tiny two-door!

You're SO right! I mean Britain has never done any good engineering. Well, apart from that whole industrial revolution thing, and the steam engine, and the jet engine, and the commercial light bulb (a year before Edison), and radar, and the bicycle, and trains, and the electric motor, and disc brakes, and the first…

Amazing!

I have a small table like this one (only less elegantly designed). It doesn't work too well at this scale. Part of it is having more than two spindles per player is part of the challenge.

A moa is no pterodactyl, and a pterodactyl is no dinosaur.