Exactly - in fact, I am typing this on my Galaxy Note II docked to a BT keyboard and mouse + a cheap HD monitor - love it, and with all costing less than a new 128gb iPad. Great for email and reading /.

Have not seen this problem, but I have a problem with external mouse not scrolling. It's a registered bug in the database, closed, with a patch - but I have no idea what that means or when/if Samsung will roll that out - ha!

I'm using my Galaxy Note 2 as a desktop computer in the den, and if there were a cheaper chinese version with like specs, I'd put one in every room that has a HDMI monitor sitting idly by - but what I gather from this experiment is that Apple needs to build in telephony to all its computers, or I'm going to replace my MBs and Airs with cheaper phones, and use android devices for everything but 'real' work.

near 0 proof: my wife, an employee, did not even know she was using windows 8 after they rolled it out.

The World Bank has already rolled out Win8 to enterprise machines, via Dell hardware, and the machines boot into the desktop. So learning curve is near 0. Based on that, I doubt much trouble in the enterprise over this.

Disease, weather, and lack of energy have plagued humanity since we all crawled from the slime, or peeked from the cave, or evolved however we did. I think we can deal with it.

Hardly channel surf at all these days, the content in "channels" rots. But for gaming, see the new Wii U interface; it's a tablet.

agreed, in fact perhaps this is mentioned: iPhone 4s DOES NOT = siri. my phone consumes more data now because of iCloud pumping larger photos and videos which I could never do with my old 3g.

As a retired IT manager of 25 years... albeit I was a dino even a decade ago, I don't agree with this assessment. 1) I was never aloof, always super friendly to all, and made my mark by being open with non-IT folks, going the entire 9 yards to explain and communicate - YET- 2) I don't think I was all that successful. I am not sure non-IT folks ever understood (or could) no matter what the effort, and 3) this gained me no respect within the IT community, which would have rather had me keep my mouth shut and spend my time helping them get ahead instead. It was a rough situation.

All of this talk of the space shuttle being dead is pretty silly considering there is a space shuttle (unmanned) orbiting the globe spying on everyone and their brother, and run by the US Gov't. And who is paying for that? That's right, US taxpayers.

This is so true, take last week's GB vs. Oakland: where there was a challenge - but the instant reply gizmo was broken - so the ruling on the field had to stand, even though it was clear from the audience camera that the ruling was wrong. Something has been lost, re: officiating in the electronics age, and adding more gadgets to the mix will only make it worse...

Thx for pointing this out. It's rare folks here on /. speak from fact, so that was refreshing. As a retiree from IBMs software division, it seems to me that Kodak could re-invent itself just as IBM has done so many times over the course of their business career. IBM is great at cultivating and milking a technology until the teet runs dry, and then selling it off. The proof of this strategic success is in the stock - very nice.

OR are they just a way to get another Windows vs. Linux vs. Whatever conversation going? In reality, what does it matter? The schools will distribute the PCs depending on what some admin thinks is best, and they will end up on the coaches desk or in the computer lab, who knows? These questions belong on Yahoo Answers, and not /.

"Yeah, the real problem here is that the governmet has decided to take reasoning that makes perfect sense in a war zone and apply it to our communities." Good point, and this has been the case long before 9/11. Back in the '80s, during the war on drugs, my 6th grader wired playdough to a watch and 9volt battery and left it prominently in his locker, telling no one. During one of the ongoing locker searches, the "device" was found, the school evacuated + bomb squad called, and my son was taken to the police station where I had to collect him and his artwork. Land of the free my ass.

There is a donkey in the last frame of that video, yet the pseudo scientist intellectual points to horse shit. I want to know why.