hm. "Display of wealth" generally means "Look at how much money I have." Short of taping your bank account numbers to your window, people show how much money they have by casually tossing as much of it as possible on things that are as ridiculously non-essential as possible.

yeah. how can you top being able to drive pretty much any car that's ever existed? Steam engines, antique electric, modern electric, tank engined roadsters, turbine car...

Now we will avoid everything

they didn't ban them- you can still install those on windows as you choose. they just outcompeted. I'm using chrome and openoffice.

at least microsoft has a tendency to pay money instead of just banning competition.

Dropbox is an awesome service. maybe apple should ban the dropbox app from the app store for some obscure rule and then roll out a magical new iOS feature.

but that means brown isn't a colour either!

maybe you get tired because you can't understand the concept of excercise beyond shaking a tube, but here's some physics for you: 2000 mAh battery @ 3.3v is 5 kcalories. that's barely warm-up pace on a treadmill for a few minutes. lrn 2 physics. and lrn 2 fitness while you're at it. also, lrn 2 technology. …

"A human would be hard pressed to charge that phone by hand."

...to you. Apple isn't very attractive to me, but go ask a teenage girl.

at this point i'd like to say that superconductors are the totally cool part of this demonstration, not the magnets.

as many people have noted, and as anyone who's keen on tech (not just gadgets, but technology) can see, apple doesn't create new technology. They take well-developed technology and piece it together in a clean, attractive format. They make consumer products that appeal to emotion, not science.

not surprised at all. people go on and on about the "cheap" feeling plastic, but there's a good reason plastic is still used. because it works. glass is pretty, but even reinforced glass is still brittle. metal is strong but it's generally so rigid it transmits the shock of the drop directly to the sensitive…

the hulk? PotC At World's End? Transformers?

2 wheels bad? 0 wheels worse.

if you want to argue linguistics with me, then i could do it all day. "cool" can refer to either "celebrity" or "car owner," english grammar allows for both. Like "longest submarine dive." "longest" refers to the length of the dive, not length of the submarine.

bullcrap. this guy doesn't just buy a lot of cars, he drives, maintains, and restores them himself. he's a cool car owner who is a celebrity, not a cool celebrity who owns cars.

i certainly think they're capable of it if they're serious. they've taken out incumbents before. started with search, then email, maps/navigation, phone OS... yeah. No reason why Facebook won't drop to the wayside within a few years like Myspace, Xanga, or whatever other old networking sites from last decade.

and if you turn it the other way, you can see some crazy priest stealing a jar of antimatter.

thank you! i wanted to see some cute kitty-on-hairdryer action and the posted link failed me.