I have an Ainol (*snicker*) NOVO7 Elf II which I paid $120 for (on sale from $140, and free Fed-Ex 3 day shipping). It has 1GB DDR3 RAM, 16GB internal memory, G-Sensor, good display, 5-6 hour battery, and a Dual-Core 1.5GHz ARM processor.
It runs Android 4.1 and I can run Ubunu 12.10 from the sdcard with almost everything except the touchscreen because of no drivers for that, or the Mali-400 GPU.

What they seem to planning here doesn't seem to be all that impressive considering my chinese brand tablet can do all that. Truth be told it may not be open-source like they want, but the kernel sources for Ubuntu are obviously available, and the company has released the Android kernel they use.

Ainol is also one of those companies that churn out tons of Android tablets, and they seem to be doing fine. A sub $100 tablet doesn't seem like such an achievement.

Basically, I don't see what the appeal of this project is aside from mabe extended support, but even my device has a good community behind is releasing custom ROM's and constantly keeping it up-to-date and applying fixes from the hardware manufacturers.

Honey, grab the maple syrup and the cheap viagara. We're celebrating.

Now, if only we looked at Apple's patents then we can really stir some shit up.

[citation needed]
Seriously, I have trouble thinking of any real problems that Google has had with personal data aside from the Google cars collecting WiFi info.

Well they are assumingly moving over to ARM, which freely runs Linux and Windows now. The only problem I really see is them forcing you to buy an ARM version of certain Apps and an Intel version separately.

As long as everything transitions smoothly, the userbase will probably have no clue about the change over.

That's quite high for Android tablets. Most top out at 8-16GB, and they usually leave little room for user data also. So in comparison, they are really quite above most tablets available..

None of those things would have made any free space at all and would simply detract from functionality. They want your Tablet/PC experiences to be relatively similar and streamlined.

Registry is part of Windows and an editor would be a good idea. Why wouldn't you need a file system browser? I have one on Android for managing files, Android (and I believe jailbroken iPhones) have a terminal, Notepad is another popular app that many tablet users download. The only thing I can see as unnecessary is the DirectX Diagnostics, but they do intend for you to develop on the tablet also, so that may be why it stayed.

None of these things are really necessary, but many tablet users download similar apps to them anyway. They really don't take up precious space either so that point is rather moot.

Whoosh, meet Chrisq.
Chrisq, meet Whoosh.

I think the general plan is that you could unify different accounts onto this card and access them all just from the Google Wallet card. As well in the event of you losing the card, all it would take is the deactivation of this one card instead of multiple cancellations from multiple institutions.

Apparently it her was, not her phone being loose that was the problem.
There is a reason we have to preview before we post comments.

Then you couldn't put them in the same room and crudely re-enact scenes from Sherlock Holmes.
And a little USB drive shaped like a pipe.
Yeah. That would be awesome.

Design another Watson designed as a database for crimes which could analyse crime scenes, point out potential minute details and give data on similar crimes. Then call it... Holmes.
I'd like that.

I think you may have missed the point and landed in the lake of not-quite-sure.

Is this would accomplish what? The terrorists can use Photoshop?

The fact that there is snow would indicate that there might in fact be snow or ice on the road. Thanks for playing.

Camera monitoring hallway:
Subject 1: "You, citizen. Pick up that can."
Subject 2: "..."
Camera: "Oh shi-"