You didn't include some important aspects of the episode in your discussion. Most of the conversation between Dana Gray and the man who made the bomb was about fate. For instance, he tells her that she thinks she convinced him to let her show up, but actually he wanted her to. He also says, in response to that…

Thanks for the article. I love this film and its soundtrack.

Of the comments I've read, I agree with yours the most. Apple makes a very small number of products, and they have a good sense of their consumer base. They also tend to focus most of their advertising on one product at a time. They probably figured on selling 1M units in the first 3 months of release with a goal…

Digital music looks like it's dying because it's positioned on top of the plummeting CD sales. Digital distribution is growing. Just pay attention to the vertical dimension of the digital portion, and you'll see that it's increasing.

Agreed. But that time frame also coincides with the sudden appearance of the iPod and other digital audio players and the widespread adoption of notebook PCs. I don't really believe the idea that torrenting alone suddenly resulted in millions of dollars of reduced CD sales. I think the recording industry inadvertently…

First, the music industry is doing fine. The music recording companies are the ones who are having the problem.

I think it's brilliant.

I guess it depends on what you would consider falling into the rank of "true A.I." I think Watson is already pretty close to being the front end of an expert system. The ability to parse regular speech, take requests for information, and respond on the basis of a large database makes an expert system much more…

It wouldn't surprise me if Apple were continually testing out different ideas for the iPhone. I also think that the increased power efficiency Apple is getting from their chipset is allowing them to experiment with different form factors. The rumored iPhone "nano" might be a testament to that. And the iPod Touch is…

Proof that owning a cool video camera will give you neither fine aesthetic sensibilities nor good taste in sound design.

I agree. It's very difficult for me to ignore the fact that this movie is set in the present (I think I saw an iMac somewhere in there), when railroads are not profitable and there are no more U.S. steel tycoons. There's no way I could watch the whole movie (much less two movies) without constantly thinking about…

Our relationship with handwriting, at least for the time being, is getting more and more ridiculous.

This looks like the Muppet Babies version of X-Men.

@Nitesh: We will begin with the firemen, then the math teachers, and so on in that fashion until everyone is eaten.

I didn't see farandolae or Proginoskes anywhere in this so-called "mitochondria" video.

I think Nurse's statement is generally true, but that the main point in it is being missed. What he is pointing to is a change in the model on which our understanding of the genetic system is based. Classically, the single gene is defined as a code for a protein. That definition gave rise to the conception that…

@crickitobs: Lol.

In response to a number of comments: I don't think we can conclude that the Observers and the First People are the same, insofar as we know anything about the First People. We know that the Observers exist in both dimensions, and view their principal tasks as observation, documentation, non-interference, and…

Nice article. I agreed with all of the main points. IMO, Caprica was not sufficiently comprehensible.

@geolemon: Back in the days of Marathon, Macs cost quite a lot but were often the computer system of choice at colleges and universities. Almost no one had internet access. Marathon was one of the first multiplayer FPS games, and generally the only way to play it in a group was in a computer cluster at a university.…