One problem is that GPS bleeds into the spectrum that LightSqured is supposed to use, due to poor design decisions. The GPS satellites would need to be fixed to prevent usage outside of the range they were supposed to operate in. LightSqured's solution to this is to use half of the bandwidth they were allotted, in order to not interfere with the GPS satellites. They even offered to pay to fix the satellites themselves, in order to solve the problem.

Using Lyx as your text editor, you can export directly to Html. The html that it exports can be used by Calibre to make a ePub. Also, Lyx will output well formated pdfs, and can handle very advanced math formulas, as it is based on LaTeX. It is a graphical version, a WYGIWYM (What You Get Is What You Mean) Editor, allowing you to format the book with presets geared to different formats such as technical documents, non-fiction, or fiction. You tell Lyx what a line is, such as the Author's name, Title, Section, or a Subsection, and it handles the formatting and transcription. You should have very little need to change the html, and Lyx works on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

The simple answer to this is, surprisingly simple. When iPad was the only tablet on the market, they were the only ones that that counted. Simply by selling the Android Tablets, they had to lose market share.

Call me when they have numbers again next year.

Or live in a house that contains college students taking online classes, high school students using Pandora, iTunes, and Facebook, or a house with 10 people in it. This is my current situation, and looking at my router statistics, May 2011 (Incoming: 586440 MB / Outgoing: 48713 MB), convinces me that it is unrealistic to assume anything about a particular household or usage pattern. It might possibly be fair to charge based on the number of people living in a household, but I don't like that idea either, to many people would simply claim that only one person lived in a ten person house. P.S. the highest days' usage last month? 50GB down on the 25th.

Somewhere, there's an iron in that post....

Slavery is not limited to the US, it has existed in ALL cultures and countries. It also still exists in many countries today.

You assume that every valuable project will be invested in, which is not strictly true. Many ideas are passed over not because the idea is worthless, but because the large company cannot make a large enough percentage from the investment. Many scripts are passed over thanks to this, yet the script may win many rewards at Sundance Festivals; big investors think in terms of quick recoup on investment, and not everything qualifies.

The publishing industry abounds with tales of authors submitting their book to twenty publishing houses, and then the twenty first picks it up and it sells 600,000 copies. Tyler Perry started out on the streets before he was able to do his first play, yet those Matilda plays have made his career.

It is easy to dismiss things because it must not be good if our corporate overlords don't buy them; the harder path is to think for ourselves.

Diaspora is a DISTRIBUTED social network. The project sets up micro Facebook sites and federates with other Diaspora sites. So in theory, You have a Diaspora server, and your friend has one as well. Yours will connect ot his, and his to yours, only giving out the info each of you set up. You can have it set up to get all your post from Facebook and whatever.

The source code and install instructions are on the Diaspora site, and gitHub for you to use. However, it is no trivial to install. I have not been able to get it ot work in the virtual machines I have created for that purpose. So in reality, what you will end up with may be small sites that focus on a small number of people, then federate to other Diaspora sites, versus everyone and their mother having their own.

Still, it is available, and has been available to those that donated since the summer, as the Diaspora team is using them as guinna pigs.

How about really rethinking the default UI. I currently have my start menu on the right, and the tabs of my browser on the left, because that is where I have more space thanks to the new 16:9 screen ratios that the industry has standardized on. Why not have the Title bar on the left or right, or at least customizable to be. They finally have Windows Update usable, after 15years of working with it, so why not let other companies, such as Adobe, use that technology for their updates, for a price, of course. Why not have a screen when you first start the computer that will walk you through choices of antivirus, and anti-malware. Oh yeah, when are we going to get a Mac OS like, as in the functionality, quick bar, with out having to rely on these things that can't work with windows explorer.

Technically Windows 2000 and Windows ME happened at basically the same time. And Windows 98 was much less buggy than 95, its just more people were using 98, so we received more complaints. They were over the same issues again and again.

I LIKE the fact they targeted the netbook market, this is one reason that Windows 7 runs so well on older hardware. Of course, preparing it to run on more than 64 cores might have helped, as well.

The only issue that Sony might be able to capitalize on is the fact that Amazon is PLAYING the music for you on the web in the form of the Amazon Cloud Player. Another issue is that you were already able to do this in the form of their cloud service, they are specifically targeting music with this pricing and advertising effort. If they were just streaming the files, and providing a means to integrate into an existing player, they could say that they were just offering a home targeted version of their existing services, but as it is, we must wait and see.
P.S. I actually want Amazon to succeed.

I'm a regular listener to Windows Weekly, with Paul Thurott and Leo Laporte. He mentioned Microsoft Signature at the Microsoft store. Here is a link to the article. It is apparently a very Apple store like experience, and they clean the computers of all the crud that is on the laptops originally. They sell several different brands. Hope this helps.