"stole" is pretty strong for letting market forces decide who wins. Apple's contribution to this was the integration with iTunes, much more than the player itself. Other big companies are in this market (e.g. Microsoft), but aren't as successful. If you want to say it's because of superior marketing rather than…

I don't know about living there, but I have visited Santorini, and it's a beautiful place. The volcano that exploded (pretty much leaving only what is now Santorini above water) suspended ancient Greek civilization for a couple of hundred years.

The question is, were these your favorite teams before they were doing well?

Thank you. My brain was having a parsing fail from that.

As you said, theoretically. Whatever storage media you choose just needs to live long enough for you to move it to the next storage media. It's not just the media rot— stuff on floppies, zip disks, and even PATA HD, need to be moved to something more modern before you don't have the means to read them.

This isn't network attached storage. Think of Thunderbolt as an extension of the internal PCI-E bus.

This one's already $900... a 1TB version would probably cost $3500 or more. Still want that call?

Not sure if you're trying to quote when the movie was made, or when it was set... There's always "2001", which was in theaters in 1968.

I would recommend not using the trash for temporary storage. Only put stuff in there that you know you'll never need again. Create a separate folder (I call mine "archive") for stuff that may still be needed.

How about an alarm clock that's aware of traffic conditions? No snow where I live (SF Bay Area), but commute time varies greatly depending on traffic jams.

"... I wouldn't bother to be honest." You *probably* want another comma:

It's not bootcamp, but my Dell Mini 10v triple-boots into Mac OSX, Windows 8 (preview), and Solaris 10.

If you're basing your experience mostly on your hackintosh, well, yeah.

As they say, don't hate the playa, hate the game.

Sorry, but I wouldn't characterize Google as the naive innocent. They have been using their market power more and more. I consider them to potentially be more dangerous because they're hiding under the guise of being "open".

I completely agree! If anything needs to be blamed, it's the patent (and copyright) system. It's in serious need of reform. The review system needs to be expanded, and stupid and trivial patents revoked.

Do we even know that turning off lights is a (North) Korean custom for memorials?

rediculate? "ridicule", perhaps?

Same here— honesty is the quickest way to deal with this. I either tell them "give me a minute to finish this", or "I'll come find you when I'm done", or if it seems important enough, I let them interrupt and then I give them my full attention. The determination of "important enough" is the tricky part, but it…

Not just gadgets.