If there is a God/FSM, then he/she/it will see to it that these forced stops only happen in tunnels during rush hour. Oh please, oh please, oh please...

What the fuck?! "Within five minutes of starting the car, the interlock will order the driver to pull over and restart the car. For longer rides, drivers will be required at random times to stop the car and restart." Seriously?

That Bob Ross guy absolutely enraged me with his fucking afro.

I hate that fucking slider bullshit.

"...when Vista was young" Why you bringing up old shit?

So, if the "next civil war ... will be about money", doesn't that also indicate that the "have nots" are greedy themselves? Why is greed a negative property only for the "haves"? If the "have nots" win this civil war and end up with everything that the "haves" once had, are the "have nots-become-haves" then greedy? Doesn't the fact that these "have nots" are willing to go to war over money indicate an insatiable desire for the "haves" monies serve as a perfect example of greed?

deities don't die.

Another option that may be "in the middle" is Pulse. Far less expensive than a tablet, uses paper, but also records pen strokes and audio for digital archival. Some people at my company use them and the biggest complaint is that the recorded audio is often poor quality. The technology itself is pretty fascinating. I've been using an HP TX2513 (~$900 in 2008) with OneNote for a couple of years now and it is a great experience. The latest verion of OneNote is, to me, really a requirement for tablet usage. I started with Vista and even then it was a good experience. Windows 7 improves in handwriting recognition and general input with the stylus. I have the notebooks synched with SharePoint for convenience and as a backup. Being able to search against my own handwriting across multiple notebooks is a great feature. In class (graduate studies), I'm able to browse for more information on topics and copy content and URLs directly into the notes. It is also installed as a printer driver, which is great for printing slide presentations and marking on them directly. For me, the tablet beats paper hands down. Even my professors, after asking questions and me demonstrating how well it works look into purchasing tablets. Though, I do keep a small amount of paper with me in the inevitable case of technical failure (though none to this point) or for some items that we must turn in to the professor.

Yes, some of the templates are almost useless, but I've found success with a few of them. Though I must admit that the development tools for it are quite the headache. Nonetheless, SharePoint really shines with collaboration and integration. Being able to use a (versioned) SharePoint list as a Windows directory is incredibly useful. I recently even helped someone with a project that involved porting an Access database to SharePoint. It was a few clicks and it was finished.

i'm chuckling at the truth of this (and the comedy)

Exactly. But, per the fanbois, it's a Microsoft product, therefore it is inherently evil and must be destroyed. The truth is that SharePoint is a fabulous product. I use it at work and at home with a variety of document types and have no issues. Those documents are even search-able if a filter is available.

from a tx owner and user: i have a tx2513cl from costco. I agree entirely that heat is a fierce problem. This thing can get over 90C easily. Though with everything turned down to power saver, you can get back down to ~50-60C. Most likely, the x64 AMD processor is the culprit (and reason for lower price at the same time). The machine came with Vista x32 and I have had very few problems with the OS. Of the few problems, most are minor, but using the external VGA contributes to the heat and will sometimes just shut the whole machine down. As for hardware, there seems to be some magnet in a small corner spot that throws off the stylus by a few millimeters - not a major deal, but I'm annoyed that it does this. In Vista, I sometimes accidentally touch one of the panel buttons and start up some app I do not want - Media Center stuff usually. In low ambient light, the panel display lights are a bit bright. The 6 cell battery doesn't last long at all unless the display brightness is at a minimum and all other power saving (read: performance decreasing) features are enabled, an 8 cell is available. The touchscreen is also very reflective, which I believe (think ?) to be a problem with a lot of these machines, it can be almost impossible to read when the display brightness is low. I have calibrated the screen maybe three times, and that was just for "fun", as the touch input really is great. When temp is high, the fan can get a little noisy, but not much more than what I've experienced in other laptops. I upgraded to an OCZ solid state drive and installed Windows 7 (x32) and the thing absolutely flies now. Power consumption is still an issue, though. With 7 the handwriting features see some improvement and the external VGA never fails. With OneNote (pre-installed), I have found a lot of success using it for a year in college now. I use a SBS 2003 server with SharePoint to keep it synced/backed up. I've not found any other software on the market that can compete with OneNote, though there are probably some competing vendors. OneNote really is an impressive piece of software. I paid ~$950 for the machine and considering the price and even the aforementioned problems, have been happy with it, more so after the Win7/SSD upgrades. Others on the market in this line were twice that price at the time. Hope the lengthy input helps!

obviously, you are a republican, microsoft shill.

and in a related story, and you seem to be getting stupider as you age! bada boom! I'm here all week!

yeah, because MS would NEVER publish their formats. go back to your little, dark hole