Agreed. Automotive and aircraft designers realized this and proved it with testing long, long ago. Touchscreens are lousy interfaces in any vehicle, but especially one that maneuvers as violently as a fighter plane.

Buttons have to be big enough (or, a control must be usable, whether it's a button or not) in the dark, when blinded, when the vehicle's upside down or spinning rapidly while falling at the same time. By hands that might need to be gloved, right? So, fat fingers.

And you absolutely need to be able to feel whether or not you successfully operated the control. You need to be able to feel the throttle's position along the length of its slot, and you need to feel the switch change when you lower landing gear, or whatever.

Touchscreens take your eyes off of the primary task. No choice; you have to divert your attention to the touchscreen.

Dropbox should quit trying to develop new products. We're not interested in hearing ads and begs from our storage provider.

The thrust of your argument seems to be that stealing is hard work, and therefore we should respect the thieves?

Anyway, the issue with Huawei chips is not really that they copy someone else's work. The issue is that they can build backdoors into the chips that you cannot discover till its too late. They know other countries have done it (USA for sure), and since the USA knows how it can be done, some of its government who are still patriots would prefer not to make it easy on an adversary and literally install their spy hardware in their own data closets.

Hurting American business is part of the WSJ's mission though. WSJ is owned by Murdoch, right? So, not sure I trust anything it publishes. Wait, I *am* sure I can't trust anything they publish. If there's a story in the WSJ, there's an agenda behind it that involves organized crime & political subterfuge. The old WSJ is long dead.

"The pickups are attached to a plate that can be easily swapped."

Why? Here's why: "The pickups are attached to a plate that can be easily swapped."

That's 1 example, probably the single thing that would attract more players than anything else, and there are plenty of good ideas in your guitar plans to go along with that. I like the idea of swapping out necks, too.

I'd want fingerboard options like: zero fret, 24 frets, scalloped, fretless, a fat vintage C profile and some other profiles.... If I had to lathe and mill my own necks, though, I wouldn't. I'd feel great about buying truly interchangeable parts, one or two at a time, from builders/sellers, as I could afford them and whenever I am in the mood to change something up.

I'd want to see more space on the frame for larger bridges, esp. Kahler, Floyd Rose, and other vibrato/"tremelo"/whammy bar bridges, and I'd need to be able to place a pickup closer to the briddge than 9 mm (to fit my Roland GK pickups). Those would be required before the modular axe could be useful to me.

I'd also want modular parts that let me make a solid, reliable headless guitar. Those things are really wonderful.

Boo. Bad idea. I don't want the ribbon.

Yes, this is essentially the "thin client" scam: we'll take away the independence and control that you get from having your own computer, and make you reliant on access to the network, reliant on continual upgrades that you pay for, and reliant on other people to do no evil with the files and personal information you'll be forced to share on the network.

What do you get in return? A slightly smaller machine that you can't open or fix. You'll be reliant on someone else for those things, too.

"If there is a problem with an Apple product you take it to the Apple store and they fix it."

Fiction.

It's just not true. Ask them to figure out why your iCal isn't syncing with your dotMac or "MobileMe" account, and see how far you get with that. I was told to email for support.