Maybe they put the tablets in *puts on sunglasses* airplane mode. OTOH, it is kind of funny, my company has replaced a lot of paper documentation related to field work with iPads a year ago because even though they're more expensive (Based on a 2 year service life) than dead trees they are either working or not working and lost or not lost (they never go missing, nobody wants to tell the boss man they lost a 600 dollar tablet). Delays piss off customers and cost us overtime hours and road pay, and an iPad fixes those issues because unlike paper, which is lost, never given to the employee, gets treated poorly because we can just print more, gets given to others and forgotten about etc, nobody is going to lose their 600 dollar tablet. The very worst that happens is that they have to get an extension cord for it because they forgot to charge it last night.

Yeah. I was enrolled in advanced placement classes until I was 10 (6th grade in the USA) and I was removed from them because I simply could not learn algebra no matter how hard my parents and teachers tried to jam it down my throat. A year later in Canada I was introduced to algebra again and went on to get more or less effort-free A's in mathematics courses, and although I had some initial trouble in engineering school due to never really learning how to apply myself and learn something hard, I did just fine throughout my mechanical engineering degree right up until the final math course of the degree, where I barely got through with a C- despite a solid effort on my part.

I think it would be cool if somebody made a full-size laptop (Windows or Linux) that could also work as a phone dock/screen. The battery would last a long time powering the phone and the laptop's screen and it shouldn't cost much more than a normal laptop.

With a docking station a Galaxy Note 2 is more than powerful enough for web browsing / MS Office / email type stuff. 95% of people don't do anything with their computer except for gaming that a modern smartphone isn't able to handle.

Android is outselling windows because desktops and laptops (especially desktops) last a very long time compared to smartphones/tablets. Also, lots of people pirate Windows, Android comes with the hardware when you buy a phone or tablet.

It has two hulls which contact the water under normal conditions. The reason the middle hull is nicely shaped like that is so that in rough seas, when water does hit it, it deflects more gently off the sloped sides rather than slamming into a boxlike hull.

I'd really like to try eating insects, I can't get past eating ones that are still alive, even if they are just larvae (of course if they are just tiny little aphids on a berry I don't care), but once killed they're pretty much land shrimp.

A tree's heart beats really slowly though, so it makes sense.