I want to do a quick calculation in mathematica. I don't have a mathematica license on my personal machine. I log in to the research server, launch mathematica remotely, do my thing, log off.

Are you really claiming this is use case is no longer important? At my university I see it all the time.

Maybe I'm missing something.

Out of curiousity, what do you dislike about the nook + cm7? I ask because I have the same. I put swype on it, and it works quite well for my purposes (browsing, pdf reading). The absence of GPS and camera is unfortunate, but I knew they'd be missing. Only problem I've noticed is that for some reason gmail doesn't sync well.

I liked labs, but I like great *finished* software even more. In my experience Google is great at rolling out early versions of cool software but often failing (or taking ridiculously long) to add critical features that would really make it complete.

If Larry Page is telling the troops that they now have to finish that final 10%, I'm all for it.

And for those complaining about innovation: G+ isn't innovative??

Are you using LaTeX to write your papers? If so, I *highly* recommend Beamer, which is a LaTeX style. It's pretty customizable, so you should be able to create eye candy with a little investment. But I love its straightforward use of LaTeX syntax. You display a presentation with a pdf viewer such as Acrobat. If LaTeX is installed correctly, there should not be problems with red X's. And you can just cut and paste equations and includegraphics commands from your papers.

If you're not using LaTeX, well, then, never mind!

The "better option" that the airlines almost never take is to book you on another airline. Of course, that would cost them money as opposed to making you wait for an empty seat, which costs them almost nothing.

You have a legitimate beef, but shouldn't you be complaining to congress? (I just now clicked your link -- nice site! -- and I see that you live in Scotland. Not sure who you should complain to.) Instead of dealing with copyright in a serious and thoughtful way, in the US we get asinine and cynical legislation like the Sonny Bono copyright extension act and the DMCA. It's no wonder that average folks have no respect for copyright, and one certainly can't expect Google to show more respect than is required by the law.

I feel at least some of your pain -- I've written a textbook and pdfs of my book are widely available. I'm not sure what the new world will look like (and not sure that my current work on a new edition will ever be repaid). But I also recognize --- speaking here about my case, not yours --- that a large percentage of the effort devoted to a new textbook edition is all about marketing and killing the used book market, which for most books is a social waste. These incentives *should* go away. The current model is broken. (My editor argued with me about this until she read Chris Anderson's "Free".) I don't know enough about photography to have an opinion in your case. But we need a less corrupt legal framework for sure.

Anyway, best of luck with your work.

Thank you for quoting this. I saw this yesterday and was trying to square it with the google video in TFA that suggests that only your contacts will see your +1s. After they got keel-hauled for Buzz, I can't believe that Google is introducing this without being completely explicit about the control you have (or don't) over who sees your recommendations.

If I could select a group of contacts who would see my +1s, I would use it.

One loan application that he acknowledges filling out had true income information from a recent year. For another, in which the income was clearly exaggerated, he claims he did not fill out the application and handwriting evidence may support him.

Moreover the jury found him not guilty of providing false information to the bank, but guilty of mortgage fraud. Huh?

The guy doesn't come off as clean, but it's not clear he should be in jail. It's an astonishing story and worth a read.

I'm not sure if you're joking or not.

I started computing over 30 years ago. For a long time I was a Windows user, on the upgrade treadmill and I found it fun, but these days it's Emacs, LaTeX, Octave, and bash shell scripting. One of the great things about these tools, for me, is that they are all about the getting the task done and the interface is *not* changing all the time. Of course some things change over time. But for writing I am pretty much working the way I did 10 years ago (emacs/latex). I'm a fan of changes where I'm lured to do something new (learning R for example, which I'm now doing), rather than being coerced into it.

As I said, I haven't used Gnome 3, so I don't have an opinion. And yes, I know that I can always use KDE or fluxbox or whatever. But I repeat: I see no reason to force UI changes on users.

I haven't used Gnome 3 so I don't know if I like this change. But I have one request for the devs: ***PLEASE*** make it *easily* possible to retain the Gnome 2 look and feel if a user prefers that. TFA wasn't clear about whether this would be possible.

You become comfortable working in a particular way. Then you upgrade ---all your reflexes are wrong and you have to waste time relearning the interface. If I'm productive, let me stick with what I know. For a developer to alter the UI without a downgrade path (as MS did with the Office ribbon) is the height of solipsistic arrogance.

So you tax the externality, no? We should have had a carbon tax 20 years ago.

Government in general is *terrible* at direct regulation and congress is the worst. When the government dictates efficiency standards (e.g. auto mileage standards) you end up with outcomes like SUVs.

I'm a professor. I tell my students about Khan Academy and provide links to it. I'm teaching a relatively advanced course for which there's no good online substitute that I'm aware of. But someday there may be. And when there is, I'll hopefully be able to delegate to online learning the part that fits the online learning model, and concentrate on the part that doesn't.

And if everything is someday subsumed by online learning or its successor, well, things change. It's very hard on the people and institutions that get steamrollered. But the world changes.

You're right about starring rather than spamming, but the attention had the intended effect. The priority is now marked critical.

I agree with you that this makes no sense, which makes me hope that the "nothing stored on the local computer" is a bit of an exaggeration. *Some* of the time, you are going to be without an internet connection and you may still want to work on that document or read/write e-mail.

We're a long way from people asking "Off-line? What does that mean?"

Unless I'm missing something, it's a highly misleading summary. In the TFA, the quoted figures are from a UK price comparison site. It's not sales, it's site visitors comparing phones.

There is a discussion of sales, but it's from an article dated Nov 9.

This is an embarrassing post, even by Slashdot standards.