Nice article, which seems to confirm my opinion that Jobs and Apple are not interested in business customers at this time, not enough profit. Retail is Job's market where Coolness rules. Apple is not interested in building a new company to target and support corporate buyers at this time, maybe never. They don't need to do so. Apple supplanting PC's, allowing companies to close IT Dept's sounds a lot like nuclear power not needing a meter. In fact the opposite would be true. As market share grows Apple will fall victim to the same problems with which MS has become relatively adept, security.

For all their faults, and there are many, MS still has the lowest zero-day vulnerability. These days the biggest security problem is customers running without keeping all their software updated. Knock on wood, but in twenty plus years I've had a grand total of 1 problem, which was easily fixed. Jobs being a smart man will think long and hard before he commits Apple to the expensive infrastructure MS maintains. The very fact that Apple is now making Apple PC's confirms the need to run open-source and non-Apple software on Mac's. Apple is smartly admitting their new customers want cool, expensive Apple hardware while retaining familiar PC software. There is an undeniable cache with pulling out an iPhone, iPod, or Macbook Air.

PC's are not the problem, software has always lagged far behind hardware. The question is what does MS do to fix Vista or does Vista turn into another Windows ME while we wait and hope for the next XP, Windows 7 and how many people just give up waiting on MS. Besides all this is probably a moot point in the long term as computing moves from the desktop to the online virtual desktop. One small personal device and rented space accessible from any place in the world. The terminal returns, long live the terminal!

Let's look at this, business is never going to switch to Apple in significant numbers if at all. Many consumers will continue to use PC's because their IT dept. will only allow them to work from home on a PC. For the average user, the ones targeted by these adds, they want to read e-mail, shop, listen to music, store some photos, and online bank. So, do they want to spend twice as much for a machine that is for all practicable purposes proprietary? The average buyer getting an Apple is essentially married to Apple for the life of the machine. I especially love the Apple products without user replaceable batteries. Also, while the old complaint of limited software for Apples is past there is still no comparison to the cornucopia of freeware available for PC's. Everyone knows Apple makes a great product hard and soft, but this ain't about which is better. So, the average user will soon be using Vista and Vista, barring improvements, is going to spur development and acceptance of competing OS's. Apple will continue to win a few wealthy converts in developed countries, while millions continue building PC's, using bootleg copies of Windows or some ver. of Linux such as Ubuntu, browsing with Firefox, and listening to DRM free, free music with VLC, etc.

TechnoGeek is right. Regardless of how f'd up Vista is why would I ever buy into an overpriced proprietary system. I'll run XP into the ground and switch to Linux if nothing improves. As long as PC's can be built from scratch for a few hundred bucks then run on what amounts to freeware anywhere in the world who cares. Some rich people in the US buy a few units while millions are building PC's around the world. These adds do more to increase the smugness factor of the choir than drum up new business. Open-source is the way and everyone knows it but Jobs and his friends at Sony, Universal, AT&T, etc.

I remember a similar looking bulb in my grandmother's carriage house/garage that had supposedly been burning for fifty years or so. I don't think there was a switch for the bulb because it was always on. A wire with a socket had been strung from the house to the garage uninterrupted. The house had a high step off into the driveway for getting in and out of carriages. This was in the sixties and that place was a kids dream, with a haunted rat cellar, hidden stairways, and a huge attic. Lots of dark wood and stone, very Addams Family.

Are you allowed to take pictures of that?

Chk out the Coral Castle in Homestead, Florida. Definitely worth a visit.

Amazing yet creepy bot! I can't help anthropomorphizing robots. Eerie, only begins to describe the strange feelings that came over me watching this video. I kept seeing a decapitated calf franticly searching for a way out. The Blair Witch like stumbling down the hill through the woods is classic. I don't think I like it when it is kicked.

Didn't morcheeba's math skilz beat this guy Dan to the punch by about two weeks, 15 mins after Mark's original post, while also not being like a total prick? I think I'll continus to read the comments of boing boing readers.

Not to mention the fact that the Sun was blastineg the hell out of everything. The outside of suits and everything else exposed to sunlight can reach temperatures of 300 F, is it possible this is what a cooked suit smells like.

Damn I wish I was six again. The most help I had studying Optics or Static and Dynamic Physics was the TI 55 a 32 step programmable calculator. Check out the NASA Glenn Research Center's Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics @ http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/index.html Look for the FoilSim Java Applet, which helps illustrate flow-turning. There is so much cool stuff available for kids today.

Congratulations on her birth and kudos for having a her at home where mommies and babies belong! Born green, live green!

Oh, hell yeah!

It is worth noting that there is not much natural about the bees or the collapse of these hives. These bees are only here because of beekeepers, who make their living by trucking bees from farm to orchard or wherever. The hives are placed in the area to be pollinated and then after some time moved to the next job. I would imagine those beekeepers who have lost almost everything would take exception with the way this serious problem is being used politically.

I think scientists are starting to understand this collapse as being the result of bees being imported from Australia. The imported bees have a virus, which is either directly or indirectly responsible for this collapse. The relationship of the collapse to the imported bees appears to be substantiated, though the exact mechanism that leads to the collapse of a hive is still being investigated.

It probably uses a gang of thermocouples, which exploits the Peltier-Seebeck effect. Thermocouples, the junction between dissimilar metals, produce a current which is used to measure temperature or a current can be applied to the thermocouple to produce heat or even freeze water in the right conditions. These gangs of thermocouples are usually found in portable fridges that plug into cars or are used to cool CPU's.

Hey sexyrobot, thanks for the breathtaking link. Take Care.

As far as cheap science toys go, this is not a science toy. We bought it for our 2.5 yr old because he loves the moon and enjoys a night light. Anyone who buys this as a teaching tool should go outside. My kid just loves the moon, wants a night-light and enjoys playing with the remote; who can deny using a remote ain't important. There's plenty of time to teach him about shadows and earth glow. For christ's sake what do you expect for 20 bucks? We love the damn thing. Lighten up guys, it's a toy. P.S. love boing boing!

We paid 20 about a year ago, each phase change takes about 5 sec, 12 phases in 60 sec. Using the remote they can manually step thru the phases or turn it on full or off, the moon turns off automatically after they are asleep. We love it!