I thought it was given that the moon was part of the earth. Look at a map of pangea and the "rabbit in the moon". Genesis describes a terraforming operation.

here's a scenario - in the john surfing naughty sites with bing - tablet blue screens - WAAH !!! OMG !!!! reboot reboot reboot reboot reboot - "you have unused desktop icons" - ah crap, there went that moment

It "sort of" makes sense if the whole OS is a front end to TV. Although a minimalist browser piping ads is probably just as good. That said, a process/thread/whatever running and piping ads to a windows is patentable ? Jeez, if it's configurable I'd configure it to /dev/null.

We went through this for both document management and web front end for access. We looked through, Sharepoint, Alfresco, Oracle UCM, Reddot and a few others. We dropped most due to cost, functionality, and ease of use for non-developers to do page work. Sharepoint was dropped due to cost in an internet setting (CALs), no non-developer front end for page layout (they couldn't use HTML) and it stores everything in the database. From prior experience this made backup/restore difficult as it keeps the IP ofthe web site in the database when you backup. If you restore to a different machine it gets confused. It was between Oracle and Alfresco. You cannot go wrong with either. Both are extensible, either have what you need built in or can be added easily. Both are good for non-developers to use. Support is very good with either. We went with Oracle. While it did cost more it matched our existing infrastructure.

According to Google, Zune forums have been /.'d by iPhones & iPod Touches.

I have the options of Oracle's Jdeveloper, Netbeans and Eclipse. (free) I run WebLogic, JBoss or Glassfish. (free) I've got apache, tomcat, php, perl and ruby or python should I wish. (free) I can do web apps for the iPhone/iPod Touch or native apps for them. (free) I have mySQL (free) I have many unix shells. I can have from 2 ($1100 iMac) to 8 ($2400 refurb) cores. All 64 bit. I can run Windows ($250), Linux (free) using parallels or vmware (~$50). With that I can run Oracle's 10g db or IBM's DB2 express (free). Anything java I develop can be pushed to any Windows or Linux or Unix environment, yes with tweaking. And I have a really, really nice gui that runs MSFT office, or OpenOffice, has iTunes and plays some games. For the purists, I can do vi, emacs, gcc and make. I can get this in a laptop. So, yea, I'm happy.