Good article. If RIM had just been more understated in its claims, had simply kept up in CPU power and gone to an 800x480 screen, it would have increased the utility of the BB for email, and current users probably would have been much more interested in upgrading for that alone. But it wasn't just the overhyped…

@zimbabwaenquadrillionare: This may or may not be relevant, and I welcome any responses. But I have noticed in general that Adobe seems to have a big problem. Adobe has successfully pushed PDF and Flash to be standards. But those formats are also the source of a lot of (certainly not all of) exploits. From what I…

@Super_Kitten: Personally, my main problem with evolutionary psychology is that it represents a new way of making teleological arguments about human behavior. As such, it's often on very uncertain ground. People have been making false claims about animal cognition for hundreds of years, totally in earnest. The idea…

@MazdaMania: I'm beginning to suspect that Asus is just setting up some hype for the EeePad. Because you're right, at some point the $200 to $400 netbook market has got to get saturated.

It was charitable of you to donate so much space and time to refuting this guy's ridiculous forecast. You should get a tax deduction for this.

@Annalee Newitz: Quote from NYT article:

@dors44: I appreciate that you had a positive experience of Hauser. But if Harvard has gone this far - meaning, taken the information and complaint of student(s) as a justification for seizing computers while Hauser was out of the country and essentially forcibly retracting a journal article as the result of a three…

What is so shocking about this story is not that a researcher or a Harvard researcher has faked his results, but rather that students turned him in twice over the course of three years and that Harvard actually did anything about it. There is so much incentive for scientists to do this sort of thing - to get funding…

@junior ghoul: There are only maybe 150 MD schools in the country (though increasing numbers of DO schools). Most of the time is spent listening to lectures and looking at slide presentations and handouts. Usually there's a note-taking service where one person is taking notes for everyone in each class, and then…

@Insecur1tyGuard: Medical students need to be able to study all the time, not just when they have wifi access. I don't think that value of the iPad is that it's made by Apple, it's just good for storing and viewing documents, showing color photographs, and having a longer than average battery life. A color e-reader…

@junior ghoul: Most medical schools are pretty old. I'm making a pretty broad generalization of course. But medicine is a pretty old profession, and medical schools are attached to a money losing business, i.e., health care. Medical teaching is a tradition-bound practice. There are more outlets in a Starbucks than…

@meatbag_pussrocket: It's really more like, the medical school doesn't have to pay for the two to three feet of photocopies per student per year for the first two years. If the med school got outside funding for the iPads (which I believe is what happened), the med school saved a lot of money and labor. And the med…

@Insecur1tyGuard: This is the medical school, not the college. The iPad is great for looking at color photos (necessary for pathology, cell biology, anatomy, etc.), and it has a long battery life. Also, most medical schools aren't technologically updated (that is, not enough outlets). The iPad is ideal for that…

@zross312: Medical students also get about two to three feet of paper in photocopies each year for the first two years, and notetaking services generate one to two feet in addition to that... that's per student.

The reason why there's so much confusion about this keyboard is that the video is so god awful boring. There is absolutely nothing in it that is worth 9:51 of viewing time.

@karite36: I think you're going to be disappointed by the gaming opportunities on the Apple TV. Apple doesn't like buttons, and I don't really think there's much point to gaming on a TV without gaming controls. Think of it like this: the developers of Chopper 2 suggest that you can hook up your iPad to your TV (over…

This is exactly the kind of crap people pull when they read Ayn Rand.

@colorebel: I was about to mention, what is up with HP and their CEOs? Maybe the next one will be fired for torturing cats and trafficking in blood diamonds.

@wild homes loves you but chooses darkness!: Oh, I was kind of joking, but kind of not. I was making an implicit comparison to the excoriating reaction to the announcement of the iPad, versus the iPad's sales numbers.

@MaNiFeX: I agree with you about 720p vs. 1080p. A lot of what will make the next Apple TV interesting will have to do with the built-in capability and services that go along with it: streaming 720p video over wifi-N, TV show subscriptions, apps with on-screen notifications, Hulu, Netflix, etc. There have been a…